SearchGetRecordCardiff Triennial Musical Festival (1907)
Collection Summary
Collection Title
Cardiff Triennial Musical Festival (1907)
Unique Identifier
e.1391.a.
Description
Programmes and wordbooks for four morning and four evening performances given at Park Hall, Cardiff between 25 and 28 September 1907 as the Cardiff Triennial Musical Festival.
All programmes provide a list of the patrons/committee for the festival and detailed information regarding the vocal and instrumental performers, including lists of the complete choral and orchestral ensembles.
Principal vocalists: Miss Agnes Nicholls, Miss Gleeson-White, Miss Amy Evans; Madame Kirkby Lunn, Miss Alice Lakin, Miss Gwladys Roberts; Mr Ben Davies, Mr John Coates, Mr John Harrison; Mr Ffrangcon Davies, Mr Ivor Foster, Mr David Hughes, Mr Charles Tree
Signor Busoni and Mis Marie Novello Williams (piano), with the Cardiff Festival Chorus and the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Frederic Cowen. Mr. W. Frye Parker (leader) and Mr T. E. Aylward (organ).
All programmes include extensive historical and analytical notes (with musical examples), written variously by W. A. Morgan, F. Gilbert Webb, Ernest Newman, A. J. Jaeger, Joseph Bennett and Herman Kretzschmar.
The programmes for these performances, listed in detail below, included a number of works composed especially for the Festival. Many of these were conducted by their respective composers.
25 September (morning): Sullivan, The Golden Legend; Hervey, Summer (written for the festival and conducted by the composer); Harty, Ode to a Nightingale (written for the festival and conducted by the composer). Also, choral music by Purcell and Beethoven.
25 September (evening): Granville Bantock, Omar Khayyám. Also, a miscellaneous selection, including Beethoven, E-flat piano concerto and Chopin, Ballade in G minor (Busoni, piano), a Scena by Saint-Seans, and the Overture, Leonora No. 3 by Beethoven.
26 September (morning): Elgar, The Kingdom and Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 5.
26 September (evening): J. S. Bach, Phoebus and Pan (cantata); Hubert Parry, A Vision of Life (a symphonic poem for soprano, bass, chorus and orchestra, written for the Festival and conducted by the composer); Wagner, Act III of Tannhäuser.
27 September: Cowen, He Giveth his Beloved Sleep (poem for contralto solo, chorus and orchestra, composed for the festival); Schubert, Mass in E Flat; Wagner, Grail Scene from Parsifal.
27 September (evening): Haydn, Spring; Vaughan Williams, Norfolk Rhapsodies (first performance and conducted by the composer); Herbert Brewer, Sir Patrick Spens (written for the festival and conducted by the composer); Mendelssohn, Loreley. Also, Strauss, Don Juan.
28 September (morning): Berlioz, Romeo and Juliet; Mendelssohn, Piano Concerto in G minor; David Evans, The Coming of Arthur (written for the Festival and conducted by the composer). Also, Cowen, Scene, O Peaceful Night, and Motet for Quartet, chorus and orchestra by Mozart.
28 September (evening): Handel, The Messiah
All programmes provide a list of the patrons/committee for the festival and detailed information regarding the vocal and instrumental performers, including lists of the complete choral and orchestral ensembles.
Principal vocalists: Miss Agnes Nicholls, Miss Gleeson-White, Miss Amy Evans; Madame Kirkby Lunn, Miss Alice Lakin, Miss Gwladys Roberts; Mr Ben Davies, Mr John Coates, Mr John Harrison; Mr Ffrangcon Davies, Mr Ivor Foster, Mr David Hughes, Mr Charles Tree
Signor Busoni and Mis Marie Novello Williams (piano), with the Cardiff Festival Chorus and the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Frederic Cowen. Mr. W. Frye Parker (leader) and Mr T. E. Aylward (organ).
All programmes include extensive historical and analytical notes (with musical examples), written variously by W. A. Morgan, F. Gilbert Webb, Ernest Newman, A. J. Jaeger, Joseph Bennett and Herman Kretzschmar.
The programmes for these performances, listed in detail below, included a number of works composed especially for the Festival. Many of these were conducted by their respective composers.
25 September (morning): Sullivan, The Golden Legend; Hervey, Summer (written for the festival and conducted by the composer); Harty, Ode to a Nightingale (written for the festival and conducted by the composer). Also, choral music by Purcell and Beethoven.
25 September (evening): Granville Bantock, Omar Khayyám. Also, a miscellaneous selection, including Beethoven, E-flat piano concerto and Chopin, Ballade in G minor (Busoni, piano), a Scena by Saint-Seans, and the Overture, Leonora No. 3 by Beethoven.
26 September (morning): Elgar, The Kingdom and Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 5.
26 September (evening): J. S. Bach, Phoebus and Pan (cantata); Hubert Parry, A Vision of Life (a symphonic poem for soprano, bass, chorus and orchestra, written for the Festival and conducted by the composer); Wagner, Act III of Tannhäuser.
27 September: Cowen, He Giveth his Beloved Sleep (poem for contralto solo, chorus and orchestra, composed for the festival); Schubert, Mass in E Flat; Wagner, Grail Scene from Parsifal.
27 September (evening): Haydn, Spring; Vaughan Williams, Norfolk Rhapsodies (first performance and conducted by the composer); Herbert Brewer, Sir Patrick Spens (written for the festival and conducted by the composer); Mendelssohn, Loreley. Also, Strauss, Don Juan.
28 September (morning): Berlioz, Romeo and Juliet; Mendelssohn, Piano Concerto in G minor; David Evans, The Coming of Arthur (written for the Festival and conducted by the composer). Also, Cowen, Scene, O Peaceful Night, and Motet for Quartet, chorus and orchestra by Mozart.
28 September (evening): Handel, The Messiah
Format
Date range of collection
1907 - 1907
Accumulation Dates
-
Suggested Audience
Not Specific
Associated People or Organisations
- Williams, Miss Marie Novello -
- Webb, F. Gilbert -
- Wagner, Richard -
- Vaughan Williams, Ralph -
- Tchaikovsky, Pyotr -
- Sullivan, Arthur -
- Strauss, Richard -
- Schubert, Franz -
- Saint-Saens, Camille -
- Purcell, Henry -
- Parry, C. Hubert Hastings -
- Parker, W. Frye -
- Newman, Ernest -
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus -
- Morgan, W. A. -
- Mendelssohn, Felix -
- London Symphony Orchestra -
- Kretzschmar, Hermann -
- Jaeger, August -
- Hervey, Arthur -
- Haydn, Joseph -
- Harty, Hamilton -
- Handel, George Frideric -
- Elgar, Edward -
- Cowen, Frederic -
- Chopin, Fryderyk -
- Cardiff Triennial Musical Festival -
- Cardiff Festival Chorus -
- Busoni, Ferruccio -
- Brewer, Herbert -
- Berlioz, Hector -
- Bennett, Joseph -
- Beethoven, Ludwig van -
- Bantock, Granville -
- Bach, Johann Sebastian -
- Aylward, Theodore -
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