Edinburgh Orchestral Festival: Reid Concert 1876

Date:

Saturday, February 12, 1876

Time:

7.45 pm

Season/No:

1876

This Reid Concert which concludes with music by a living composer of such repute [Wagner] is the Thirty-Sixth which has taken place and the Eleventh given by the fifth Professor of Music. H.S.O.

Venue:

The Music Hall

Participant(s):

Principal Artistes

Madame Antoinette Sterling
Mr Edward Lloyd
Mr Charles Hallé - solo pianist and conductor

Work(s) / Composer(s) / Opus No(s):

Part I
Introduction, Pastorale, Minuet and March ... General Reid
Overture, "Euryanthe," ... Weber
Recit. and Canzonetta, "Al questo Seno," "Quando miro," ... Mozart
Mdme. Antoinette Sterling (Her first appearance)
Pianoforte and orchestra, Caprice (Allegro giojoso), in E major, Op.22 ... Sterndale-Bennett
Mr Charles Hallé
First time
Recit. and Air, "My arms! against this Gorgias will I go!" "Sound an Alarm!", (Judas Maccabæus) ... Handel
Mr Edward Lloyd
Symphony in A major, No.7, Op.92... Beethoven

Part II
Overture, "Hebrides," Op.26 ... Mendelssohn
Lieder,
(a) "Wonne der Wehmuth," ... Beethoven
(b) "Es was ein Konig in Thule," ... Liszt
Mdme. Antoinette Sterling
Andantino and Gavotte from Orchestral Suite, No.6 ... Lachner
(First time in Scotland)
Ballad, "Edward Gray," ... H.S.Oakeley
Mr Edward Lloyd
(First time)
Pianoforte solos,
(a) Des Abends (Fantaisie Stücke), Op.12 No.1... Schumann
(b) Impromptu in F minor, Op.142, No.4 ... Schubert
Grand March, "Tannhauser," ... Wagner