Professor Tovey's Sunday Concert

Date: 
Sunday, November 11, 1928
Time: 
8.15 pm.
Season/No: 
1928-1929, 5th concert

Armistice Sunday

Venue:

Participant(s): 

Choir of St Giles' Cathedral
Professor Tovey - pianoforte
W. Greenhouse Allt - organ

Work(s) / Composer(s) / Opus No(s): 

1. Pianoforte sonata, A flat, op. 26 ... Beethoven
   Andante con variazioni
   Scherzo, allegro molto
   Marcia funebre. Maestoso andante
   Allegro

2. Choir - "Give rest, O Lord" (Kiev chant) ... trancribed by Sir Walter Parratt

3. Choir - "The Lord is my Shepherd" ... Schubert

4. Organ - Prelude and fugue in E minor ... Bach

5. Choir - (a) "My sould there is a country" from Songs of Farewell ... Parry
                (b) "There is an old belief" from ditto ... Parry

6. Organ - chorale preludes (a) "Vor deinen Thron Tret' ich" ... Bach
                                            (b) "Herzlich tut mich verlangen" ... Brahms
                                            (c) "O Welt, ich muss dich lassen" ... Brahms

7. Choir - "Blessed are they" ... Brahms

8. Choir - "With proud thanksgiving" (from The fallen) ... Elgar

Composer(s):

Performer(s):

Performance Type:

Programme: 
4-page programme
Programme Notes: 

There are no programme notes.

Ticket and/or Programme Price(s): 
Programme Price: threepence
Publicity and Reviews: 

On the centrefold there is an advert for the next Sunday concert on 18 November; on the back page there is an advert with programme for the next Reid symphony orchestra concert on 15 November 1928.

[Reid] Professor: 
Tovey, Sir Donald Francis, 1875-1940

Promoter:

Printer(s): 
Not recorded
Notes: 

The seventh item in the programme, 'Blessed are they', by Brahms is probably the opening of his German Requiem.