Henry Wood Promenade Concerts
First Night
Television cameras are at the Royal Albert Hall, London, for the first part of the opening concert of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
Soloists, Clifford Curzon (piano), Amy Shuard (soprano)
Prelude: The Mastersingers...Wagner
Aria: In questa reggia (Turandot)...Puccini
Piano Concerto No.4, in G...Beethoven
Introduced by Alvar Lidell
(Amy Shuard appears by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.)
March: Pomp and Circumstance No. 1, in D...Elgar
Suite: Beni Mora...Holst
Sea Songs...arr. Henry Wood
Rule, Britannia...Arne
Jerusalem...Parry
Constance Shacklock (contralto)
BBC Symphony Orchestra (Leader, Paul Beard) Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
Introduced by Alvar Lidell