Edinburgh Orchestral Festival 1877

Date: 
Saturday, February 10, 1877
Time: 
2.30 pm
Season/No: 
1877

First Grand Orchestral Concert at the Edinburgh Orchestral Festival 1877
on Saturday morning, Feb. 10, 1877.  Concert to commence at Half-past Two.

Venue:

Participant(s): 

Orchestra of 70 performers

Artistes
Madlle. Thelka Friedländer - soprano
 (Her first appearance in Scotland)
Signor Foli - basso
Herr Straus - leader of the band
Mr Charles Hallé - pianoforte soloist and conductor

Work(s) / Composer(s) / Opus No(s): 

Programme
Part I

Overture, "Les deux Journees" ... Cherubini

Aria, "Pur dicesti ... Lotti
  Madlle. Thelka Friedländer
  (Her First Appearance in Scotland)

Concerto for pianoforte and orchestra, no. 5 ... Beethoven
  (a) Allegro brillante
  (b) Adagio, un poco mosso
  (c) Rondo. Allegro
 Pianoforte - Mr Charles Hallé

Aria, "Spiagge amate ove talora" (Paride ed Elena) ... Gluck
  Madlle Thelka Friedländer

Symphony in B flat [no. 98] ... Haydn
  (a) Adagio, Allegro
  (b) Menuetto, Allegro
  (c) Adagio, Cantabile
  (d) Presto, Piu Moderato
  (First time)

.........................................

An interval of fifteen minutes

Part II

Overture, "La Clemenza di Tito" ... Mozart

Leider, (a) "Lieblingsplätzchen" ... Mendelssohn
           (b) "Marienwürmchen" ... Schumann

Ballet Music, "Feramors" Nos. 1, 2 and 3 ... Rubenstein

Aria, "Se per il rigur" (La Juive) ... Halevy
  Signor Foli

Pianoforte solos, "Soirées de Vienne, no.9 ... Schubert-Liszt
  Mr Charles Hallé

Drinking Song, "Quaggiu in questa val di pene" (Freischütz) ... Weber

Overture, "Preciosa" ... Weber

 

 

Composer(s):

Performer(s):

Group/Ensemble: 
The Hallé Orchestra

Performance Type:

Programme Notes: 

No programme notes.

Publicity and Reviews: 

Reviewed in The Monthly Musical Record, March 1, 1877, p.43

[Reid] Professor: 
Oakeley, Sir Herbert Stanley, 1830-1903
Notes: 

Haydn Symphony in B flat (Salomon, no. 8; chronologically, no. 98) identified from movement titles