SIR MALCOLM SARGENT

An evening at the Proms

01 Applause 0:24

02 Overture di Ballo' Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent (conductor) 9:50

03 Tatiana's Letter Scene from 'Eugene Onegin' Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Joan Hammond (soprano) (sung in English), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent (conductor) 12:28

04 Slavonic Dance in E Minor Op.72 No.2 Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent (conductor) 6:04

05 Beni Mora' - Oriental Suite Op.29 No.1 - I. First Dance. Adagio - Vivace Gustav Holst (1874-1934) BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent (conductor) 5:17

06 Beni Mora' - Oriental Suite Op.29 No.1 - II. Second Dance. Allegretto Gustav Holst (1874-1934) BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent (conductor) 2:49

07 Beni Mora' - Oriental Suite Op.29 No.1 - III. Finale. 'In the Streets of the Ouled Nails'. Adagio - Allegro moderato Gustav Holst (1874-1934) BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent (conductor) 5:44

08 Fête Polonaise from 'Le roi malgré lui' Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894) BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent (conductor) 7:47

09 Andante cantabile' from String Quartet No.1 in D major Op.11 (arr. Schmid) Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent (conductor) 7:42

10 Scherzo from 'Concerto symphonique' in D minor, Op.102 Henry Litolff (1818-1891) Shura Cherkassky (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent (conductor) 7:14

11 Pomp and Circumstance March Op.39 No.1 in D Major Edward Elgar (1857-1934) BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent (conductor) 6:32

The British conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent (1895-1967) was best -known the world over for his conductorship of the BBC Henry Wood Proms for very many years. He took the lion's share of the wide-ranging repertoire and a glance at the many programmes he conducted reveals a man whose breadth of musical understanding was wholly exceptional. Today, the Proms is the largest classical music festival in the world, and it is timely to be reminded of Sargent's genius in a wide range of repertoire in this new collection of some of his legendary performances, recorded in the late 1950s and mostly with the BBC Symphony Orchestra of which he was chief conductor in succession to Sir Adrian Boult. This is a superb collection of well-known classical music, very well played and recorded - a fine tribute to a masterly conductor who reached many millions through his devotion to music.

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