Edinburgh University Musical Society Concert

Date: 
Friday, March 18, 1870
Time: 
evening
Season/No: 
1870

Venue:

Participant(s): 

Edinburgh University Musical Society 
Chorus of past and present students, numbering about 60.
The orchestra comprised amateurs, chiefly from the St Cecilia Society and or wind instruments from the band of the 17th Lancers.
Conductor - Adam Hamilton
Solo pianoforte - Professor Oakeley

Work(s) / Composer(s) / Opus No(s): 

Programme

Student's Song ... Oakeley

PART I

Symphony in E flat major, op. 58 ... Mozart
(a) Adagio: Allegro
(b) Andante
(c) Menuetto & Trio
(d) Finale. Allegro 

Double Quartet and Solo: 'Three Chaters' ... H. Tuhn

Part Songs: 'Let us live merrily' ... Este
                  'Die Nacht' ... Schubert

Song: 'Piu bianca' ... Meyerbeer
  (Gli Ugonetti)

Quartets: 'Des Mullers Blumen' ... Otto Claudius
               'Ausmarsch' ... Juliu Otto

String Quartet, op. 64, no. 1 in D major ... Haydn
  (a) Allegro moderato
  (b) Adagio Cantabile

Overture: 'Stradella' ... Flotow

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PART II

March and Chorus: "Abendscene" ... K. Appel 
  (scored especially for this concert by the composer)

Songs: 'Schafer's Klaglied' 
           'Der Singer' ... Hünten

Pianoforte solo:
     Lieder ohne worte, book 3, no. 1
     Lieder ohne worte, book 4, no. 3 ... Mendelssohn

Song: 'Where'er you walk' ... Handel
   (from 'Semele')

Madrigal: 'Down in a Flow'ry Vale' ... Festa (A.D. 1541)

Trio and Chorus: 'The Winds whistle cold' ... Bishop

Overture: 'La Gazza Ladra' ... Rossini

 

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Composer(s):

Performer(s):

Group/Ensemble: 
Edinburgh University Musical Society

Performance Type:

Programme Notes: 

'The Musical Times' review of the concert, 1 April 1870, p. 4

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

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