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13 Aug 1938, Queen's Hall
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20:00
Sat 13 Aug 1938
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Programme
Carl Maria von Weber
Oberon, J306
Overture
Giuseppe Verdi
Macbeth
Scena & cavatina 'Ambizioso spiro tu sei...Vieni! t'affretta! Act 1 Scene 2
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, ‘Emperor’
interval
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Scenes from 'The Song of Hiawatha', Op 30
No. 1a Aria 'Onaway! awake, belovèd!'
Edward Elgar
‘Enigma’ Variations
Johann Sebastian Bach
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582 (orch. Ottorino Respighi)
Frank Bridge
O that it were so
Go not, happy day
Love went a-riding
Richard Wagner
Die Walküre
Walkürenritt (orchestral synthesis) Act 3 Scene 1
Performers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Henry Wood
conductor
conductor
Laelia Finneberg
soprano
soprano
Frederic Lamond
piano
piano
Edward Reach
tenor
tenor
Berkeley Mason
piano
piano
Composers
Carl Maria von Weber
Giuseppe Verdi
Ludwig van Beethoven
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Edward Elgar
Johann Sebastian Bach
Frank Bridge
Richard Wagner
About this event
Part of
Proms 1938
Discover the Music
The Emperor
Elgar: Enigma Variations
Wagner: Die Walkure
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