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3 Aug 1959, Royal Albert Hall
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19:30
Mon 3 Aug 1959
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Programme
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Ruslan and Lyudmila – overture
Overture
Ruslan and Lyudmila – overture
Aria 'O field, who has strewn thee with dead men's bones? Act 2
Alexander Borodin
String Quartet No. 2 in D major (orch. Malcom Sargent)
No. 3 Notturno
Sergey Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Francesca da Rimini
interval
Sergey Prokofiev
Peter and the Wolf, Op 67
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Golden Cockerel Suite (arr. Maximilian Steinberg )
No. 1 Tsar Dodon in his Palace
The Golden Cockerel Suite (arr. Maximilian Steinberg )
No. 4 Wedding and Lamentable End of Tsar Dodon
Performers
Alfred Orda
baritone
baritone
Benno Moiseiwitsch
piano
piano
Wilfred Pickles
narrator
narrator
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Malcolm Sargent
conductor
conductor
Composers
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Alexander Borodin
Sergey Rachmaninov
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Sergey Prokofiev
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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