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Mon 23 Sept 1940
20:00
Prom 38
Queen's Hall
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Programme
Richard Wagner
Tannhäuser
No. 1 Overture
Tannhäuser
No. 2 Venusberg Music Act 1 Scene 1
Tristan and Isolde
No. 8c O sink hernieder, Nacht der Liebe Act 2 Scene 2
Tristan and Isolde
No. 9a Einsam wachend Act 2 Scene 2
Tristan and Isolde
No. 8a Isolde! Geliebte! Tristan! Geliebter! Act 2 Scene 2
Tristan and Isolde
No. 8b O eitler Tagesnecht! Act 2 Scene 2
Parsifal
Good Friday Music (concert version) Act 3 Scene 1
Siegfried
No. 16 Nothung! Nothung! Neidliches Schwert! Act 1 Scene 3
Siegfried
No. 17c Schmiede, mein Hammer Act 1 Scene 3
The Mastersingers of Nuremberg
No. 33 Prelude Act 3
Tristan and Isolde
No. 4 Wie lachend sie mir Lieder singen Act 1 Scene 3
Götterdämmerung
No. 37 Trauermusik Act 3 Scene 2
Felix Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night's Dream – overture
Ethel Smyth
The Wreckers
Overture
Performers
Walter Widdop
tenor
tenor
Eva Turner
soprano
soprano
Mary Bonin
soprano
soprano
London Symphony Orchestra
Henry Wood
conductor
conductor
Composers
Richard Wagner
Felix Mendelssohn
Ethel Smyth
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