Raymond Nilsson (tenor)
Solomon (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, George Stratton )
Conducted by Basil Cameron
Beethoven
Overture: Coriolanus
7.40 app. Song with Orchestra:
Adelaide
7.49 app. Symphony No. 1, in C
8.15 app. Piano Concerto No. 5, in E tlat (Emperor)
From the Royal Albert Hall , London Tickets may be obtained from the Royal Albert Hall or usual agents
During this year's season of Promenade Concerts, all Beethoven's symphonies are being performed in numerical order, and all are being. broadcast in the Home Service, with the exception of No. 2, which will be taken by the Third Programme. In order that the sequence shall not be broken in the Home Service, however, the Second Symphony will be given a studio performance in its correct position, on Sunday, August 3.
Beethoven completed his first symphony in 1800 in Vienna, where he had come eight years earlier, a young man of twenty-two, to study with Haydn. He was iriready well known as a pianist and had played his first piano concerto in public, but he had h therto written no purely orchestral work of any importance. The Symphony was givert at a public concert, together with the first or second piano concerto and the Septet for wind and strings, on April 2, 1800. Deryck Cooke