The 1929 Festival

12 October Queen’s Hall

Orchestra of the Columbia Graphophone Company; conducted by Sir Thomas

Beecham

Brigg Fair

A Late Lark (first performance: Heddle Nash)

A Dance Rhapsody no. 2

Sea Drift (Dennis Noble, London Select Choir)

In a Summer Garden

A Village Romeo and Juliet (excerpt: Pauline Maunder, Heddle Nash, London Select Choir)

16 October Aeolian Hall

An unnamed small orchestra conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham

A Song before Sunrise

Seven songs (Olga Haley)

Cello Sonata (Beatrice Harrison and Evlyn Howard-Jones)

Summer Night on the River

Air and Dance (first performance)

Six songs (John Goss)

Three Preludes

Dance for harpsichord Five Piano Pieces (Mazurka and Waltz, Waltz, Lullaby, Toccata) ﹜ Evlyn Howard-Jones

Six songs (John Armstrong)

On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

18 October Queen’s Hall

BBC Wireless Symphony Orchestra; conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham

Eventyr

Cynara (first performance: John Goss)

Piano Concerto (1906 version: Evlyn Howard-Jones)

An Arabesque

Appalachia (Royal College of Music Choral Class and BBC National Chorus)

23 October Aeolian Hall

Dora Labbette, Heddle Nash, Arthur Catterall, Evelyn Howard-Jones, London Select Choir, Virtuoso String Quartet

Three unaccompanied partsongs:

The Splendour Falls

On Craig Dhu

Midsummer Song

Four songs (Dora Labbette)

Violin Sonata no. 1

Three Songs (The words by Shelley) (Heddle Nash)

To be Sung of a Summer Night on the Water

Four songs (Dora Labette)

String Quartet

24 October Queens’ Hall

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham

North Country Sketches

Songs of Sunset (Olga Haley, John Goss and London Select Choir)

Violin Concerto (Albert Sammons)

A Dance Rhapsody no. 1

Gerda (the last two ‘pictures’ of Fennimore and Gerda) (Pauline Maunder, John Goss, London Select Choir)

1 November Queens’s Hall

BBC Wireless Orchestra, Miriam Licette, Astra Desmond, Tudor Davies, Roy Henderson and Philharmonic Choir; conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham

A Mass of Life

The 1946 Festival

26 October Royal Albert Hall

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Luton Choral Society; conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham

Over the Hills and Far Away

Song of the High Hills (Freda Hart and Leslie Jones)

Incidental music to Hassan

Appalachia

4 November Royal Albert Hall

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and BBC Choral Society; conducted by Sir

Thomas Beecham