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Tue 25 Sept 1900
20:00
Prom 27
Queen's Hall
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Programme
Camille Saint‐Saëns
Danse macabre
Charles Gounod
Faust
No. 24 Aria 'Il ne revient pas' Act 5
Edvard Grieg
Bergliot, Op 42
Piano Concerto in A minor
George Frideric Handel
Serse, HWV 40 (arr. Joseph Hellmesberger)
Aria 'Ombra mai fù' Act 1 Scene 1
Giacomo Meyerbeer
L' Africaine
Aria 'Ô Paradis' Act 4
Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1, Op 46
Richard Wagner
Rienzi, Grand Fantasia, WWV 49 (arr. unknown)
Proms premiere of this arrangement
Frederic Hymen Cowen
The Children's Home
Arthur Sullivan
The Young Mother
No. 3 The Chorister
L. Schwartz
Fra Angelico
Proms premiere
Antonín Dvořák
Slavonic Dances, Op 46
No. 4 in F major
interval
Performers
Henry Wood
conductor
conductor
The New Queen’s Hall Orchestra
Jessie Goldsack
mezzo-soprano
mezzo-soprano
Ellen Bowick
speaker
speaker
Adela Verne
piano
piano
Arthur W Payne
violin
violin
Percy Pitt
organ
piano
organ
piano
Miriam Timothy
harp
harp
Antonio Paoli
tenor
tenor
Albert Fransella
flute
flute
Manuel de Gomez
clarinet
clarinet
Edwin James
bassoon
bassoon
Friedrich Adolf Borsdorf
horn
horn
Thomas Colton
trombone
trombone
Walter Reynolds
euphonium
euphonium
William Henry Squire
cello
cello
Arthur Smith
cornet
music arranger
cornet
music arranger
Émile Ferir
viola
viola
Désiré-Alfred Lalande
oboe
oboe
James Wilcocke
piccolo
piccolo
James Haydn Waud
double bass
double bass
Charles Henderson
timpani
timpani
Composers
Camille Saint‐Saëns
Charles Gounod
Edvard Grieg
George Frideric Handel
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Richard Wagner
Frederic Hymen Cowen
Arthur Sullivan
L. Schwartz
Antonín Dvořák
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