Sat 15 Aug 1914

• 20:00

  Prom 01 - First Night of the Proms 1914

  Queen's Hall

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  Programme

  • • • Unknown
      • National Anthem
    • • Claude‐Joseph Rouget de l’Isle
      • French National Anthem (arr. Henry Wood)Proms premiere of this arrangement
    • • Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie
      • Overture 'Britannia', Op 52
    • • Jean Sibelius
      • Valse triste
    • • Giuseppe Verdi
      • OtelloAria 'Mia parea m'ingiunse...Piangea cantando nell'erma landa' Act 4
    • • Edward Elgar
      • SospiriWorld premiere
    • • interval
    • • Percy Grainger
      • Irish Tune from County Derry
      • Shepherd's Hey - medley
    • • Georges Dorlay
      • Concerto Passioné
    • • Charles Gounod
      • FaustBallet Music (complete)
    • • Federico Ricci
      • La Prigione di Edimburgo (arr. Henry Wood)Aria 'Sulla poppo del mio brik' Act 1
    • • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
      • Capriccio italien, Op 45
    • • Henry Wood
      • Fantasia on British Sea-Songs
    • • William Boyce
      • Heart of Oak (arr. unknown for voice and piano)
    • • Michael William Balfe
      • Killarney
    • • Edward Elgar
      • Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, ‘Land of Hope and Glory’

  Performers

  • Henry Wood

    conductor
    conductor
  • The New Queen’s Hall Orchestra
  • Carrie Tubb

    soprano
    soprano
  • Frederick Kiddle

    organpiano
    organpiano
  • Alfred Kastner

    harp
    harp
  • Charles Warwick-Evans

    cello
    cello
  • Herbert Heyner

    baritone
    baritone

  Composers

  • Unknown
  • Claude‐Joseph Rouget de l’Isle
  • Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie
  • Jean Sibelius
  • Giuseppe Verdi
  • Edward Elgar
  • Percy Grainger
  • Georges Dorlay
  • Charles Gounod
  • Federico Ricci
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Henry Wood
  • William Boyce
  • Michael William Balfe

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