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Mon 28 Aug 1939
20:00
Prom 14
Queen's Hall
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Programme
Richard Wagner
The Mastersingers of Nuremberg
No. 1 Prelude Act 1
The Flying Dutchman
Aria 'Joho hoe! Traft ihr das Schiff' Act 2
Siegfried
No. 37 Prelude Act 3
Siegfried
Wotan's Spear and the Sleeping Brünnhilde (orchestral synthesis) Act 3
Siegfried
Entry of the Wanderer (orchestral synthesis) Act 3 Scene 1
Siegfried
No. 45b Was ruht dort schlummernd Act 3 Scene 3
interval
Richard Wagner
Lohengrin
No. 22 Mein lieber Schwan! Act 3 Scene 3
Parsifal
Good Friday Music (concert version) Act 3 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
Götterdämmerung
Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey (abridged concert version)
Frederic Austin
Spring
Franz Schubert
Wiegenlied, D 498
Die Forelle
Rastlose Liebe, D 138
George Enescu
2 Romanian Rhapsodies, Op 11
No. 1 in A major
Performers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Henry Wood
conductor
conductor
May Blyth
soprano
Isolde
soprano
Isolde
Parry Jones
tenor
Tristan
tenor
Tristan
Laelia Finneberg
Brangäne
Brangäne
Frederic Austin
conductor
conductor
Berkeley Mason
piano
piano
Composers
Richard Wagner
Frederic Austin
Franz Schubert
George Enescu
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