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Winter Proms 1935–6
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Winter Proms 1935–6 Calendar
By Year
1935
1936
Wed 1 Jan 1936
20:00
Prom 03
Queen's Hall
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Programme
Johannes Brahms
Serenade No. 1 in D major, Op 11
No. 1 Allegro molto
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major
Symphony No. 4 in E minor
Gustav Holst
St Paul's Suite
Claude Debussy
Pour le piano
No. 1 Prelude
Igor Stravinsky
Three Movements from 'Petrushka'
No. 1 Danse russe
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Wasps – overture
Performers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Henry Wood
conductor
conductor
Arthur Rubinstein
piano
piano
Composers
Johannes Brahms
Gustav Holst
Claude Debussy
Igor Stravinsky
Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Thu 2 Jan 1936
00:00
Prom 04
Queen's Hall
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Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No 25 in G minor
Joseph Haydn
Keyboard Concerto in G major
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto No 4 in D major, K 218
Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 103 in E flat major 'Drumroll'
Manuel de Falla
The Three-Cornered Hat – Suite No. 2
Helen Perkin
Episode
Hector Berlioz
The Damnation of Faust
Marche hongroise
Performers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Henry Wood
conductor
conductor
Helen Perkin
piano
piano
Jelly Aranyi
violin
violin
Composers
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Joseph Haydn
Manuel de Falla
Helen Perkin
Hector Berlioz
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Fri 3 Jan 1936
20:00
Prom 05
Queen's Hall
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Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No 8 in F major
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, ‘Emperor’
Symphony No. 4 in B flat major
Arnold Bax
The Tale the Pine-Trees Knew
Johannes Brahms
Three Intermezzos, Op. 117
No. 1 in E flat major
7 Fantasias, Op 116
No. 1 Capriccio in D minor
Franz Schubert
3 Marche militaires (No 1 in D major)
Performers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Henry Wood
conductor
conductor
Clifford Curzon
piano
piano
Composers
Ludwig van Beethoven
Arnold Bax
Johannes Brahms
Franz Schubert
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Sat 4 Jan 1936
20:00
Prom 06
Queen's Hall
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Programme
Gioachino Rossini
William Tell – overture
Dmitry Shostakovich
Concerto for piano, trumpet and strings (Piano Concerto No. 1)
First performance in England
Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 8 in B minor, 'Unfinished'
George Frideric Handel
Samson, HWV 57 (arr. Henry Wood)
Aria 'Honour and arms scorn such a foe' Act 2 No 20
Edward Elgar
‘Enigma’ Variations
William Walton
Façade, Suite No. 1
Charles G. Mortimer
A Smuggler's Song
Leo Peter
Roundaway Down
Jean Sibelius
Valse triste
Finlandia
Performers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Henry Wood
conductor
conductor
Eileen Joyce
piano
piano
Herbert Barr
trumpet
trumpet
Peter Dawson
bass-baritone
bass-baritone
Berkeley Mason
piano
piano
Composers
Gioachino Rossini
Dmitry Shostakovich
Franz Schubert
George Frideric Handel
Edward Elgar
William Walton
Charles G. Mortimer
Leo Peter
Jean Sibelius
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Mon 6 Jan 1936
20:00
Prom 07
Queen's Hall
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Programme
Richard Wagner
The Mastersingers of Nuremberg
No. 1 Prelude Act 1
The Flying Dutchman
Aria 'Joho hoe! Traft ihr das Schiff' Act 2
Siegfried
Forest Murmurs (orchestral synthesis) Act 2 Scene 2
Lohengrin
No. 22 Mein lieber Schwan! Act 3 Scene 3
Tristan and Isolde
Prelude and Liebestod
Die Walküre
No. 10b O süsseste Wonne! Act 1 Scene 3
Die Walküre
No. 9 Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond Act 1 Scene 3
Die Walküre
No. 6 Ein Schwert verheiss mir der Vater Act 1 Scene 3
Die Walküre
No. 7 Schläfst du, Gäst? Act 1 Scene 3
Die Walküre
No. 8 Der Männer Sippe Act 1 Scene 3
Die Walküre
No. 10a Du bist der Lenz Act 1 Scene 3
Die Walküre
No. 11 War Wälse dein Vater Act 1 Scene 3
Die Walküre
No. 12 Siegmund heiss ich Act 1 Scene 3
Götterdämmerung
Song of the Rhine Daughters (abridged concert version) Act 3 Scene 1
Tannhäuser
No. 1 Overture
The Mastersingers of Nuremberg
No. 56 Morgenlich leuchtend in rosigem Schein Act 3 Scene 5
Die Walküre
Walkürenritt (orchestral synthesis) Act 3 Scene 1
Performers
Oda Slobodskaya
soprano
Sieglinde
soprano
Sieglinde
Parry Jones
tenor
Siegmund
tenor
Siegmund
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Henry Wood
conductor
conductor
Composers
Richard Wagner
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Tue 7 Jan 1936
20:00
Prom 08
Queen's Hall
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Programme
Franz Liszt
Rákóczy March, S 117
Two Episodes from Lenau's Faust, S 110
Proms premiere of complete work
Béla Bartók
Piano Concerto No 2
Kodály Zoltán
Háry János - suite
Erno Dohnanyi
Ruralia hungarica, Op 32b
Béla Bartók
3 Rondos on [Slovak] Folktunes, Sz 84
No. 1 Andante - Allegro molto Proms premiere
10 Easy Pieces, Sz 39
No. 10 Bear Dance Proms premiere
Franz Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsodies, S 359 (orchestral version)
No. 2 in D minor (ending in G major)
Performers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Henry Wood
conductor
conductor
Béla Bartók
piano
piano
Elek Racz
cimbalom
cimbalom
Composers
Franz Liszt
Béla Bartók
Kodály Zoltán
Erno Dohnanyi
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Wed 8 Jan 1936
20:00
Prom 09
Queen's Hall
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Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach
Fantasia in G minor, BWV 542
Brandenburg Concerto No 6 in B flat major, BWV 1051
Cantata No. 21, 'Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis', BWV 21 (arr. Henry Wood)
No. 3 Aria 'Seufzer, Tränen, Kummer, Not'
Cantata No. 51, 'Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen!', BWV 51 (arr. Henry Wood)
No. 5 Aria 'Alleluja!'
Concerto for Four Keyboards in A minor, BWV 1065
Cantata No. 56, 'Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen', BWV 56
Proms premiere of complete work
Orchestral Suite No 3 in D major, BWV 1068
George Frideric Handel
Organ Concerto in G minor (Handel/Wood)
- cadenza by Marcel Dupré
Léon Boëllmann
Fantaisie dialoguée, Op 35
Performers
Marcel Dupré
organ
organ
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Henry Wood
conductor
conductor
Isobel Baillie
soprano
soprano
Terence Macdonagh
oboe
oboe
Ross Pratt
piano
piano
Nancy Weir
piano
piano
Sara Stein
piano
piano
Bruno Raikin
piano
piano
Keith Falkner
bass-baritone
bass-baritone
BBC Singers
Composers
Johann Sebastian Bach
George Frideric Handel
Léon Boëllmann
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Thu 9 Jan 1936
20:00
Prom 10
Queen's Hall
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Programme
Modest Mussorgsky
Khovanshchina (Prelude 'Dawn on the Moscow River', orch Rimsky Korsakov)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Tale of Tsar Saltan
Entr'acte Act 3 Scene 2
The Snow Maiden
Dance of the Clowns Act 3
The Tsar's Bride
In Novgorod we lived near Vanya Act 2
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
The Midnight Review
Modest Mussorgsky
Song of the Flea
(arr. Henry Wood)
Alexander Borodin
Symphony No 2 in B minor
Igor Stravinsky
Fireworks
Alexander Mosolov
Iron Foundry
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
6 Mélodies, Op 65
No. 6 Les larmes
Julius Ivanovich Bleichmann
Komm, lass uns spielen, du herziges Kind
Sergey Prokofiev
Love for Three Oranges, Suite, Op 33b
No. 4 Scherzo
Love for Three Oranges, Suite, Op 33b
No. 3 March
Performers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Henry Wood
conductor
conductor
Maggie Teyte
soprano
soprano
Leff Pouishnoff
piano
piano
Norman Allin
bass
bass
Berkeley Mason
piano
piano
Composers
Modest Mussorgsky
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Alexander Borodin
Igor Stravinsky
Alexander Mosolov
Julius Ivanovich Bleichmann
Sergey Prokofiev
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Fri 10 Jan 1936
20:00
Prom 11
Queen's Hall
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Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven
The Creatures of Prometheus
No. 1 Overture
George Frideric Handel
Jephtha - 'Deeper and deeper still, thy goodness'
(arr. Henry Wood)
Jephtha - 'Waft her, angels, through the skies'
(arr. Henry Wood)
Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Concerto in D major
Symphony No. 7 in A major
George Frideric Handel
Organ Concerto in D minor
(arr. Henry Wood)
Samson, HWV 57 (arr. Henry Wood)
Overture
Performers
Walter Widdop
tenor
tenor
Eda Kersey
violin
violin
G(eorge) D(orrington) Cunningham
organ
organ
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Henry Wood
conductor
conductor
Composers
Ludwig van Beethoven
George Frideric Handel
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Sat 11 Jan 1936
20:00
Prom 12
Queen's Hall
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Programme
Jeremiah Clarke
The Prince of Denmark's March (arr. Henry Wood)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita for Solo Violin No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006 (orch. Sigismund Bachrich)
No. 3 Gavotte en rondeau
Giuseppe Verdi
Aida
Aria 'Ritorna vincitor' Act 1 Scene 1
Claude Debussy
La mer
Franz Liszt
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major
Richard Wagner
Tannhäuser
No. 25b O du mein holder Abendstern Act 3 Scene 2
Tannhäuser
No. 15 Blick' ich umher Act 2 Scene 4
Richard Strauss
Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
Frederick Delius
A Dance Rhapsody No. 1
Frédéric Chopin
Nocturne in D flat major, Op 27 No 2
Franz Liszt
Soirées de Vienne, S 427
No. 6 in A minor: Allegro con spirito
Johann Sebastian Bach
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 (orch. Henry Wood)
Unknown
National Anthem
Performers
Henry Wood
conductor
conductor
Berkeley Mason
organ
organ
Anon.
trumpet
trumpet
BBC Symphony Orchestra (members)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Lilian Stiles-Allen
soprano
soprano
Frederic Lamond
piano
piano
John Brownlee
baritone
baritone
Composers
Jeremiah Clarke
Johann Sebastian Bach
Giuseppe Verdi
Claude Debussy
Franz Liszt
Richard Wagner
Richard Strauss
Frederick Delius
Frédéric Chopin
Unknown
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