Edinburgh Orchestral Festival 1888

Date: 
Saturday, February 11, 1888
Time: 
2.30 pm
Season/No: 
1888

Edinburgh Orchestral Festival (Nineteenth Year) Mr Hallé's Grand Orchestra
First Concert, Saturday morning, 11th February 1888.  Concert to commence at Half-past Two p.m.

Venue:

Participant(s): 

Artistes

Madame Nordica
(Her first appearance at a Concert in Edinburgh)
Mr R. Watkin Mills
Madame Norman-Neruda
Solo pianist and conductor - Mr Charles Hallé, LL.D.

Work(s) / Composer(s) / Opus No(s): 

Programme

Part I
Overture, "La Vestale" ... Spontini
 (First and last played in 1875)

Aria, "Il soave ben contento" (Niobe) .. Paccini
  Madame Nordica

Concerto for Violin ... Beethoven
    Allegro
    Larghetto
    Rondo
  Madame Norman-Neruda
 (first played at these Concerts in 1871)

Aria, "Gia Resuonar" (Ezio) ... Handel
  Mr Watkin Mills

Symphony in D minor, No. 49 (M.S.) ... Haydn
  (a) Allegro spirituoso
  (b) Adagio
  (c) Menuetto
  (d) Finale, Presto
 (First performance in Scotland)

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PART II

Overture, "The Wood Nymphs" ... W. Sterndale Bennett
  (First time at these Concerts)

Aria, "Gl' Angui d'Inferno" (Flauto) ... Mozart
  Madame Nordica

Solo pianoforte:
(a) Prelude in A, Op. 28, No. 17, (b) Grande Polonaise in F minor. Op. 44 ... Chopin
  Mr Halle
  (First time)

Entr'acte in B flat; Air de Ballet in G ("Rosamunde") ... Schubert

Song, "O tu Palermo"  (Vespre Siciliani) ... Verdi
  Mr Watkin Mills

Kaisermarsch ... Wagner
 (Introducing the Chorale "Ein feste Burg" and the National Song, "Heil dem Kaiser")

 

 

 

Composer(s):

Performer(s):

Group/Ensemble: 
The Hallé Orchestra
Orchestra/Chorus Listing: 
1888 The Hallé Orchestra at the Reid Concert

Performance Type:

Programme Notes: 

No programme notes.

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

The Symphony in D minor by Haydn, identified in the printed reogramme as No. 49 (M.S.), is now known as Symphony No. 80 in D minor, Hoboken 1/80, composed by in 1784.