Edinburgh Orchestral Festival: Reid Concert 1877
Venue:
Principal Artistes
Madlle. Thelka Friedlander - soprano
Signor Foli - basso
Charles Hallé - solo pianist and conductor
Part I
Introduction, pastorale, minuet and march ... General Reid
Overture, "A midsummer night's dream", op. 21 (1826) ... Mendelssohn
Aria, "Glocklein im Thale" (Euryanthe) ... Weber
Madlle. Thelka Friedländer
Concerto for pianoforte and orchestra, op. 54 ... Schumann
Mr Charles Hallé
Air, "Revenge, Timotheous cries," (Alexander's Feast) ... Handel
Signor Foli
Symphony in D minor, no. 5, op. 67... Beethoven
An interval of fifteen minutes
Part II
Overture, "Echoes from Ossian," ... Gade
Nachklänge von Ossian
Aria (di Giovannini), (a) "Willst du dein Herz mir schenken," ... Bach
Song, (b) "Ask me no more," op. 24, no. 3 ... Oakeley
Madlle. Thelka Friedländer
Minuet (for muted strings) ... Boccherini
Ballad "The two Grenadiers," op. 49, no. 1 ... Schumann
Signor Foli
Pianoforte solos,
(a) Menuetto grazioso, (b) Tambourin ... Gluck
(transcribed by Charles Hallé)
Mr Charles Hallé
Festal March, "Edinburgh," op. 22 ... Oakeley
Composer(s):
Performance Type:
The programme note for the Beethoven, op. 67: "... in place of a regular analysis of the work (which has previously been given at these concerts,) my readers will be kind as to accept a translation of some remarks by M. Berlioz, than whom no musician was ever at once more able and more willing to do justice to this great work of Beethoven..."
Professor Oakeley's 'Festal March': ... dedicated to the Duke of Edinburgh in commemoration of the Royal Marriage, and of H.R.H. becoming patron of Edinburgh University Musical Society, was first performed at the Liverpool Festival, September 29, 1974 when it was conducted by the composer ..."
Reviewed in The Monthly Musical Record, March 1, 1877, p.43
Reviewed in The Times February 16, 1877; pg.3 Issue 28867