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Sterndale Bennett collection:: Philharmonic Concerts 1869
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Sterndale Bennett e.1/ Sterndale Bennett Collection 132
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Programmes from the Philharmonic Society, Fifty Seventh Season. 1869.
At St James's Hall. First Concert, Wednesday March 10th, 1869.
Programme.
Part I
Symphony in G minor - Woelfl
Scena ed Aria - "Crudele! ah no mio bene", and "Non mi dir" - Il Don Giovanni, Mozart. Mdlla Anna Regan (her first performance in England.
Concerto for Violin - Beethoven. Violin: Herr Joachim.
Scena e Cavatina "Salve! dimora casta e pura" - Faust, Gounod. Mr Vernon Rigby.
Overture "Euryanthe" - Weber.
Part II
Symphony in A minor (Scotch) - Mendelssohn.
Aria "Pur dicesti, o bocca bella" - Lotti. Mdlla Anna Regan.
Solos for Violin: Abendlied - Schumann. Loure and Allegro in E - Seb. Bach. Violin: Herr Joachim.
Overture "Lodoiska" - Cherubini.
Conductor - Mr W. G. Cusins. Also Contains 16 pages of an extremely detailed "Analytical and Historical Programme", by G. A. Macfarren.
Second concert, Monday April 5th, 1869.
Programme
Part I
Symphony No. 2 in C -Schumann
Scena ed Aria: "Sposa! Euridice! Consorte!, & Che faro senza Euridice" - Gluck. Miss Goetze.
Concerto in G minor - Mendelssohn. Pianoforte - Madame Schumann.
Scena ed Aria: "In quali eccessi O Numi!" & Mi tradi quell'alma ingrata" - Don giovanni, Mozrt. Miss Edith Wynne.
Overture, "The Wedding of Camacho, Op. 10 - Mendelssohn.
Part II
Symphony No. 8 in F - Beethoven.
Song, "Gretchen at the Spinning-wheel" - Schubert - Miss Edith Wynne.
Overture, "Zauberflote" - Mozart.
Conductor - Mr. W. G. Cusins. Also Contains 14 pages of an extremely detailed "Analytical and Historical Programme", by G. A. Macfarren.
Third Concert, Monday April 19th 1869.
Programme.
Part I
Two movements of the unfinished symphony in B minor - Schubert.
Cavatina, "Und ob die Wolke" - Die Freischutz, Weber. Mdlle Anna Regan (her second appearance).
Coronation concerto in D - Mozart. Pianoforte, Herr Reinecke, Conductor of the Gewandhaus Concerts in Leipzig.
Cavatina, "Un jour plus pur" - La nonne sanglante - Gounod. Mr W. H. Cummings.
Overture, "Konig Manfred" - Reinecke (First Time)
Part II
Andante and Rondo from VIoloncello concerto in D - Molique. Cello: Signor Piatti.
Lieder: "Das Veilchen" - Mozart, & "Widmung" - Schumann. Mdlle Anna Regan.
Symphony No.5 in C minor Op. 67 - Beethoven.
Conductor - Mr W. G. Cusins. Also Contains 13 pages of an extremely detailed "Analytical and Historical Programme", by G. A. Macfarren.
Fourth Concert, Monday May 3rd 1869.
Programme
Part I
Symphony No. 4 in D - Cip. Potter.
Recit. e Aria: "Zeffiretti lusinghieri" - Idomeneo. Mozart. Miss Edith Wynne.
Concerto for Violin in B minor (No. 10) - Rode. Violin, Mr Henry Holmes.
Scena, "Thro' the forest", Der Freischutz - Weber. Mr Sims Reeves.
Serendae and Allegro gioioso - Mendelssohn. Pianoforte - Mr. C. Hallé.
Part II
Pastoral Symphony - Beethoven,
Lieder-Kreis - Beethoven. Mr Sims Reeves.
Overture "Rosamunde" - Schubert. (First time)
Conductor - Mr W. G. Cusins. Also Contains 14 pages of an extremely detailed "Analytical and Historical Programme", by G. A. Macfarren.
Fifth Concert, Monday May 17th 1869.
Programme
Part I.
Symphony in G minor - Mozart.
Cavatina, "Ah se de' preghi miei" - (Mirella), Gounod. Sig. Gardoni.
Adagio and Rondo from Concerto in E, for Violin - Viewtemps. Violin, Mdme Norman-Neruda.
Aria, "Una voce poco fa" - Il Barbiere di Siviglia - Rossini. Mdme Monbelli.
Overture, "The Isles of Fingal - Mendelssohn.
Part II
Symphony No. 7, in A - Beethoven
Caprice in E - W. S. Bennet. Pianoforte, Miss Agnes Zimmermann.
Duo "Du repos voici l'heure", Philemon et Baucis - Gounod. Mdme Monbelli and Sig. Gardoni.
Overture "Preciosa" - Weber.
Conductor - Mr W. G. Cusins. Also Contains 14 pages of an extremely detailed "Analytical and Historical Programme", by G. A. Macfarren.
Sixth Concert, Monday May 31st 1869.
Programme includes Haydn "La reine de France" Symphony, Mendelssohn violin concerto (Violin M. Viewtemps), Beethoven Symphony in B flat (No. 4), and Weber Concert-Stuck (Piano, Anna Mehlig), among other works.
Conductor - Mr W. G. Cusins. Also Contains 13 pages of an extremely detailed "Analytical and Historical Programme", by G. A. Macfarren.
Seventh Concert, Monday June 14th, 1869.
Programme includes Mendelssohn's "Meeres-Stille und gluckliche Fahrt" overture, W. S. Bennett's Symphony in G minor (composed expressly for the society), Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony, among other works.
Conductor - Mr W. G. Cusins. Also Contains 13 pages of an extremely detailed "Analytical and Historical Programme", by G. A. Macfarren.
Eighth Concert, Monday June 28th, 1869.
Programme includes W.S Bennett's concerto in C minor (No. 3), Pianoforte - Madame Arabella Goddard, Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony, alongside concerto by Spohr, overtures by Weber, Beethoven, and W. G. Cusins, and smaller arias.
Conductor - Mr W. G. Cusins. Also Contains 14 pages of an extremely detailed "Analytical and Historical Programme", by G. A. Macfarren.
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Philharmonic Society -
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St James Hall
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19th century - mid Victorian 1851-1875
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