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Groves Dictionary Of Music And Musicians,vol.4, Ed.3, 1908
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1PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY
3Juliet' and 5th symphony; Elgar's 2nd symphony, 'Cockaigne' and 'Variations'; a Mozart symphony and the 'Impresario' overture; Glinka's 'A Life for the Tsar' selection, performed by members of the Beecham Opera Co.; Austin's 'Polsgaard'; Franck's symphony and 'Le Chasseur maudit'; Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Anton'; Smyth's 'The Wreckers' overture; Ravel's 'Pavane'; Balakirev's 'Thamar'; Chabrier's 'Gwendolen' prelude, Act II.; Ysaye played concertos by Vivaldi and Saint-Saëns; Pachmann played a Mendelssohn concerto; Clara Butt and Kirkby Lunn sang.
51917–18. Borodin's 'Prince Igor' overture; a Mozart symphony and the violin and viola concertante (Sammons and Tertis); Bantock's 'Fifine at the Fair'; Debussy's 'Clair de lune' (orchestrated by Goossens) and 'Three Nocturnes'; Schumann's 'Carneval,' Russian ballet version orchestrated by Glazounov, Lladow, Rimsky-Korsakov and Tcherepnin; Smyth's 'On the Cliffs of Cornwall' prelude; Paisiello's overture 'Nina o la Pazza d'Amore'; Tchaikovsky's 'Francesca da Rimini' and 5th symphony; Balfour Gardiner's 'Comedy' overture; Wallace's 'Villon'; Elgar's 'Variations' and 'Cockaigne' overture; Bantock's 'Fifine at the Fair' and excerpts from 'Omar Khayyam,' performed by members of the Beecham Opera Co.; Holbrooke's 'Queen Mab'; Julius Harrison's 'Rapunzel' (new to London), conducted by the composer; Beethoven's 'Eroica' symphony; Delius's 'A Village Romeo and Juliet,' Scene V.; A. de Greef played Franck's symphonic variations; Moiseiwitsch played a Rachmaninov concerto; Beatrice Harrison played the Dvořák violoncello concerto; Ethel Peake, Edna Thornton and Frank Mullings sang.
71918–19. Elgar's 'Falstaff' and 'Grania and Diarmid' funeral march; Grieg's Lyric Suite; Parry's 'The Soldier's Tent,' sung by George Baker; Delius's 'violin concerto (Albert Sammons) and 'In a Summer Garden'; Bach's 'Brandenburg' concerto in G; Schumann's symphony in B flat; Vaughan Williams's 'Wasps' overture; Bax's 'Festival' overture; Holst's 'The Planets'; Ravel's 'Rhapsodie espagnole'; concert on anniversary of Beethoven's death with 'Leonora' overture No. 3, and symphony in C minor; German's 'Theme and Six Diversions'; Tchaikovsky's 'Romeo and Juliet'; Stanford's pianoforte concerto No. 2 (new to London), played by Moiseiwitsch; Dvořák's 4th symphony; Goossens's 'By the Tarn' and 'Tam o' Shanter,' arranged for orchestra; Brahms's 'Haydn' Variations; Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Scheherezade'; Margaret Fairless played the Mendelssohn concerto; Myra Hess played Rachmaninov concerto in C minor; Robert Radford and Olga Haley sang.
91919–20. Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Battle of Korsjenetz'; Holbrooke's 'Ulalume'; Debussy's 'Fantasie' pianoforte and orchestra (Cortot), and 'Fêtes'; Scriabin's 'Divine Poem' and pianoforte concerto (William Murdoch); Meyerbeer's 'Struensee' overture; Malipiero's 'Le pause del silenzio'; Holst's 'Beni Mora' and 'Hymn of Jesus' (Philharmonic Choir), Delius's violin concerto (Sammons) and 'Song of the High Hills'; Brahms's 4th symphony; Beethoven's 'Choral Symphony'; Rachmaninov's symphony in E minor; Schubert's symphony in C; Katherine Eggar's 'Sholley' scena (Carmen Hill); Olga Haley and Marguerite Nielka sang; Suggia played Lalo's concerto.
111920–21. Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Russian Church Themes' overture, 'Cortège des nobles'; Roussel's 'Le Festin de l'araignée'; Stanford's 'Travelling Companion' prelude; Franck's symphony; Elgar's violin concerto (Heifetz); Strauss's 'Till Eulenspiegel'; S. rabin's 'Poème de l'extase' and 'Prometheus'; Beethoven's 7th symphony and 'Coriolan' overture; Hamilton Harty's violin concerto (Murray Lambert) and arrangement of Handel's 'Water Music'; Bax's 'November Woods'; Tchaikovsky's 5th symphony; Respighi's 'Fountains of Rome'; W. H. Bell's 'Symphonic Variations,' conducted by the composer; Debussy's 'La Mer'; Delius's 'Appalachia' with Philharmonic Choir; selection of unaccompanied choral music by the choir; Myra Hess played Mackenzie's pianoforte concerto; Lamoëd played the 'Emperor'; Siloti played the Tchaikovsky; Giorgio Corrado sang.
131921–22. Elgar's variations and transcription of Bach's C minor organ fugue; Brahms's D minor concerto (Cortot) and 3rd symphony; Ravel's 'Ma Mère l'Oye'; Stravinsky's 'Petrouchka'; Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Cortège'; Bax's 'Viola Concerto (Tertis); Holbrooke's 'Ulalume'; Delius's 'On hearing the Cuckoo' and 'Requiem (Philharmonic Choir); De Sabato's 'Juventus'; Schumann's violoncello concerto (Casals); Holst's 'Perfect Fool' ballet (first time in public); Tchaikovsky's 4th symphony; a Bach 'Brandenburg' concerto; Vaughan Williams's 'Pastoral' symphony; Wolf's 'Italian' serenade; Bainton's concerto fantasia pianoforte (Winifred Christie), conducted by the composer; Strauss's 'Don Juan'; Lalo's 'Symphonie espagnole' (Thibaud); Butterworth's 'A Shropshire Lad'; Beethoven's 5th symphony and 'Choral'; Wagner's 'Die Meistersinger' overture.
151922–23. Mackenzie's 'Youth, Sport and Loyalty'; Ireland's 'Symphonic Rhapsody'; Beethoven's G major concerto (Bauer) and 'Eroica' symphony; Stravinsky's 'The Nightingale' and 'Sacre du printemps'; Brahms's 1st symphony, 'Song of Destiny'; Strauss's 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme' (new to London); Lalo's violoncello concerto (Casals); Bax's 'Tintagel'; Tchaikovsky's 'Francesca'; Glazounov's 'Stenka Razin'; Delius's 'On the High Hills' and pianoforte concerto (Katharine Goodson); Scriabin's 'Poème de feu'; Elgar-Bach's C minor fugue; Hinton's 'Semle'; scena (Marcia van Dresser), conducted by the composer; a Rachmaninov concerto (Sapellnikov); Dvorák's E minor symphony; Dukas's poème dansé 'Le Péri'; McEwen's 'Solway' symphony (new to London); Bridge's 'The Sea'; Aubert's 'Habanera.'
171923–24. An appeal made this season for a Trust Fund of £12,000; the income derived therefrom to guarantee the future existence of the Society. A centenary performance of Weber's 'Euryanthe' overture; Moussorgsky's 'A Night on the Lonely Mountain'; Schumann's pianoforte concerto (Irene Scharrer); Bax's 'Garden of Fand'; Beethoven's 'Pastoral' symphony, 'Emperor' concerto (Cortot) and 'Choral' symphony; Honegger's 'Chant de jole'; Ravel's 'Daphnis et Chloé'; Liszt's 'Hunnenschlacht'; Brahms's 'Haydn' variations and 1st symphony; Elgar's 2nd symphony; a Handel concerto grosso; Vaughan Williams's 'On Wenlock Edge' (John Booth), first performance of version for orchestra; Strauss's 'Don Juan'; Rimsky-Korsakov's sinfonietta or Russian Themes; Wagner's 'Siegfried' idyll and 'Ring' excerpts; a Mozart violin concerto (Jelly d'Aranyi); Holst's fugal concerto; Stravinsky's 'L'Oiseau de feu' (new version); Dorothy Silk sang.
191924–25. Strauss's 'Tod und Verklarung' and 'Also sprach Zarathustra'; Brahms's D minor concerto (Goodson); Beethoven's 7th and 8th symphonies Elgar's 1st symphony; Schumann's 'Overture, Scherzo and Finale'; Bach's concerto for violin, flute and pianoforte; Delius's 'Summer Night' and 'Mass of Life'; Honegger's 'Pacific No. 231'; Debussy's 'Ibérie,' 'Three Nocturnes' and 'L'Après-midi d'un faun'; Monteverdi, a sonata for small orchestra and women's voices; a Handel concerto grosso; Prokoviev's 'violin concerto (Joska Szigeti); Ravel's 'Le Tombeau de Couperin'; Berlioz's 'King Lear'; Holst's 'Planets'; Vaughan Williams's 'Pastoral' symphony; Howell's pianoforte concerto (Harold Samuel); Ireland's symphonic rhapsody; Bax's 'Garden of Fand'; Berners's 'Fantaisie espagnole'; Jeanne Jouve sang.
211925–26. Holst's 'First Choral Symphony' for soprano solo (Dorothy Silk), choir (Leeds Choral Union) and orchestra, given for the first time in London; with it given Beethoven's 'Choral Symphony'; a whole programme of Elgar's works included the Enigma variations, the violoncello concerto (Beatrice Harrison), 'Falstaff,' and 'In the South.' At this concert (Nov. 19) the gold medal of the Society was presented to Sir Edward Elgar by Sir Henry Wood in the name of the Society. Elgar's funeral march from 'Grania and Diarmid' (in mem. Queen Alexandra); Mozart's concerto in E flat (K. 268) and
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