Reid Orchestral Concert

Date: 
Thursday, January 26, 1939
Time: 
8.00 pm.
Season/No: 
76th session, 23rd season, 5th concert

Venue:

Participant(s): 

Dr Mary Grierson - conductor
Edward Renton - conductor
Mona Benson - singer
The Reid Choir (assisted by choristers, St Mary's Cathedral), chorus master: Dr Robert Head
Kenneth Anderson - leader of the orchestra

Work(s) / Composer(s) / Opus No(s): 

1. Symphony in D major ... Carl Philip Emanuel Bach
Allegro di molto, Largo, Presto

2. Overture to "Iphigénie en Aulide" ... Gluck

3. "Orpheus and Euridice," Act II ... Gluck

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4. Symphony in B flat (K. 319) ... Mozart

5. "Dieu s'avance a travers les champs" (voice and orchestra) ... C. Franck

6. Two nocturnes for orchestra (a) "Nuages" ... Debussy
                                                (b) "Fêtes"

7. Overture to "Euryanthe" ... Weber

 

Composer(s):

Performer(s):

Group/Ensemble: 
The Reid Symphony Orchestra
The Reid Choir
Orchestra/Chorus Listing: 
1938-1939 Reid Symphony Orchestra
Programme: 
24-page booklet
Programme Notes: 

By D.F.T.

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

On the inside back page - list of Thursday concerts for the remainder of the season.

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

Promoter:

Printer(s): 
David Macdonald Ltd., Edinburgh
Notes: 

The movement titles of the C P E Bach symphony strongly suggest that it is no. 16 in D major, Wq. 183/1, H. 663.

This concert was broadcast live on BBC radio