SearchGetRecordLeeds City Council Libraries and Arts Committee (1956-78)
Collection Summary
Collection Title
Leeds City Council Libraries and Arts Committee (1956-78)
Unique Identifier
Cup.918/21
Description
A volume of prospectuses, with programmes, for the Orchestral Concerts and Recitals, given at the Leeds Town Hall between 1956 and 1977 and presented by the City of Leeds Music and Civic Theatre Committee/Leeds Leisure Services Committee (missing that for 1957-58 season). Also an incomplete set of programme booklets for the performances of this kind given between 1960 and 1978 (bound as four volumes) and a parcel of relating to other performances given in Leeds.
All prospectuses including a list of the orchestra, conductors, ensembles and performers engaged for the season and provide an index of the music performed. Some also including ticket booking information and photos of certain principal performers.
All programme booklets carry biographical, historical and description notes (only a very few or which include musical examples). A large number also include a list of the orchestral ensemble.
In the listings below, information regarding the leader and the conductor of each performance is given in parenthesis after the name of the orchestra.
Unless otherwise stated, the following orchestras were led/conducted by the following musicians:
Scottish National Orchestra: Sam Bar/Alexander Gibson)
London Mozart Players: Robert Master/Harry Blech
CBSO: Kok/Rignold (-1968), Kok/Fremeux (1969
Unless otherwise stated below, Hallé Orchestra was led by Martin Milner by the London Symphony Orchestra by Hugh Maguire. The names of the conductors for these ensembles appear in parenthesis below.
Volume 1 (1960-64)
1960
16 January: Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra (Witold Rowicki, cond.) with Wanda Wilkomirska (violin)
6 February: Miscellaneous Operatic Concert with Joan Hammond, Charles Craig, Stanley Clarkson, Denis Matthews and Ivor Newton.
13 February: BBC Concert Orchestra (William Armon/Vilem Tausky), with Helen Watts (alto), Eric Harrison (piano) and the Leeds Philharmonic Choir.
27 February: London Mozart Players, with Barry Tuckwell (horn)
12 March: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Raymond Cohen/Herman Lindars)
26 March: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (Gerhard Bosse/Franz Kowitschny) with Annerose Schmidt (piano)
16 April: Hallé Orchestra (Sir John Barbirolli)
23 April: Scottish National Orchestra, with Clifford Curzon (piano)
28 May: London Symphony Orchestra (Josef Krips) with Devy Erlih (violin)
24 September: Scottish National Orchestra (Sam Bar/Alexander Gibson), with Ida Haendel (violin)
8 October: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (led by Meyer Stolow)
5 November: Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra (Ferencsik, cond.)
3 December: Hallé Orchestra (Tauno Hannijainen), with André Tchaikowsky (piano).
10 December: London Mozart Players, with Robert Weisz (piano).
1961
8 January: London Philharmonic Orchestra (Henry Datyner/Pierino Gamba) with Rosalyn Tureck (piano).
21 January: English Chamber Orchestra (Raymond Leppard, conductor) with Emanuel Hurwitz (violin) and Cecil Aronowitz (viola)
4 February: Philharmonia Hungarica (Miltiades Caridis, conductor) with Lilian Kallir (piano)
11 February: Hallé Orchestra (George Weldon) with Denis Matthews (piano)
18 February: London Symphony Orchestra (Paul Hindemith) with Gervase de Peyer (clarinet).
4 March: Hallé Orchestra (Herman Lindars) with Julius Katchen (piano).
11 March: Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra (Karl Munchinger, conductor)
26 March: Scottish National Orchestra, with Gaspar Cassado (cello)
8 April: A Celebrity Concert with Jacqueline Delman, Constance Shacklock, Charles Craig and Nowakowski (vocal) and Leon Goosens (oboe), accomp. by Ivor Newton
15 April, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (Meyer Stolow/Sir Adrian Boult) with Colin Horsley (piano)
29 April: Hallé Orchestra (Sir John Barbirolli). This concert was held at Foxwood School.
11 November: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (Felix Kok/Constantin Silvestri), with Peter Katin (piano)
26 November: Scottish National Orchestra, with Joan Dickson (cello)
2 December: Boyd Neel Orchestra (Raymond Leppard, conductor), with Carmen Prietto and Joseph Ward (vocal).
1962
6 January: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with Campoli (violin)
20 January: London Mozart Players
27 January: London Symphony Orchestra (Jascha Horenstein) with Malcolm Binns (piano).
10 February: Hallé Orchestra (Carlo Felice Cillario) with Endre Wolf (violin).
17 February: London Symphony Orchestra (Paul Kletzki) with Nan Merriman and Frutz Uhl (vocal).
24 February: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (Bruno Belcik and Bretislav Ludvik/ Karel Ancerl
10 March: Hallé Orchestra (Malcolm Arnold) with Geza Anda (piano).
14 April: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (led by Meyer Stolow), with Ralph Holmes (violin)
21 April: Hallé Orchestra (Sir John Barbirolli) with Daniel Wayenberg (piano) and a section of the Halle Choir.
28 April: London Symphony Orchestra (Antal Dorati) with Ivry Gitlis – Stravinsky 80th Birthday Concert
19 May: Scottish National Orchestra, with Fou Ts’Ong (piano).
27 June: Moscow Chamber Orchestra (Rudolph Barshai, director)
10 November: Boyd Neel Orchestra (Lionel Bentley/Raymond Leppard) with Paul Tortelier (cello).
1964
1 February: London Philharmonic Orchestra (Henry Datyner/Sir Adrian Boult) with Colin Horsley (piano)
15 February: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (led by John Georgiadis) with Manoug Parikian (violin)
14 March: Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra (Johannes Brüning/Karl Munchinger).
28 March: Hallé Orchestra (Sir John Barbirolli) with Peter Katin (piano)
9 May: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (Rudolf Koeckert/Rafael Kubelik)
26 September: Scottish National Orchestra, with Stephen Bishop (piano)
10 October: London Mozart Players, with Peter Wallfisch (piano)
31 October: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (led by John Georgiadis) with Alan Loveday (violin) and Amaryllis Fleming (cello)
7 November: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Raymond Cohen/Massimo Freccia)
14 November: Hallé Orchestra (Goerges Tzipine) with Tamás Vásáry (piano)
5 December: Bath Festival Orchestra (Robert Masters/Yehudi Menuhin)
12 December: BBC Concert Orchestra (Arthur Leaving/Vilem Tausky) with Elizabeth Fretwell (vocal) and Semprini (piano).
Volume 2 (1965-69)
1965
2 January: Hallé Orchestra (Sir John Barbirolli)
30 January: Boyd Neel Orchestra (Lionel Bentley/Charles Groves) with John Williams (guitar) and Alan Jones (baritone)
20 February: Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra (Živojin Zdravkovitc, conductor)
27 February: London Philharmonic Orchestra (Rodney Friend/Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos)
10 April: Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra (Mladen Basic, conductor)
24 April: Hallé Orchestra (Sir John Barbirolli, cond.)
2 October: Scottish National Orchestra, with Manoug Parikian (violin)
13 November: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (Gerhard Bosse/Vaclav Neumann)
28 November: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (Bruno Belick/Karel Ancerl)
1966
15 January: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with Ruth Waterman (violin).
29 January: London Mozart Players, with Nina Milkina (piano)
12 February: English Chamber Orchestra (Emanuel Hurwitz/Raymond Leppard) with Ida Haendel (violin)
19 February: Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra (Janos Ferencsik, conductor)
26 February: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with Claude Frank
5 March: Zurich Chamber Orchestra (Volker Worlitzsch/Edmond de Stoutz) with Hephzibah Menuhin (piano)
12 March: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Jurgen Hess/Rudolf Kempe)
16 April: New Philharmonia Orchestra (Hugh Bean/Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos), with Allan Schiller (piano)
23 April: The Little Symphony of London (Derek Collier/Arthur Davidson), with Peter Katin (piano)
30 April: Munich Philharmonic Orchestra (Friedrich Sonnleitner/Fritz Rieger)
13 July: Hungarian Gypsy Ensemble – Rajko
1 October: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (Paul Collins/Charles Groves) in the final stages of the second Leeds International Pianoforte Competition. Includes photos of the adjudicators.
8 October: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with Mindru Katz (piano)
15 October: Brno Philharmonic Orchestra (Jiri Waldhans, conductor)
12 November: London Mozart Players, with Marisa Robles (flute) and Christopher Hyde-Smith (harp)
3 December: Philharmonia Hungarica (Miltiades Caridis, conductor) with Peter Frankl (piano)
1967
21 January: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with Daniel Barenboim (piano)
4 February: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Reginald Stead/George Hurst) with Endre Wolf (violin).
11 February: Prague Symphony Orchestra (Stefan Czápari/Zdenek Kosler)
25 February: BBC Concert Orchestra (Arthur Leavins/Marcus Dods), with Elizabeth Vaughan and Robert Thomas (vocal) and Ronald Smith (piano).
18 March: The Little Symphony of London (Derek Collier/Arthur Davison) with Andre Tchaikowsky (piano)
8 April: Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra (Igor Iwano/Stanislaw Wislocki) with Wanda Wilkomirska (violin)
7 October: Bach Orchestra of Leipzig with Gerhard Bosse (leader, director and soloist).
28 October: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra (Franz Berger and Takaya Urakawa/Rudolfe Kempe)
4 November: English Chamber Orchestra (Kenneth Sillito/Raymond Leppard) with Stephen Bishop (piano)
11 November: Berliner Staatskapelle (Karl Suske and Heinz Schunk/Kurt Masur) with Annelies Burmeister (vocal)
2 December: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (Felix Kok/Hugo Rignold)
1968
3 February: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with Hilary Robinson (cello)
2 March: Prague Symphony Orchestra (Stefan Czápari/Vaclav Smetacek) with Ivan Moravec (piano)
27 April: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Reginald Stead/George Hurst) with Elizabeth Vaughan, Alfreda Hodgson, John Mitchinson and Colin Wheatley (vocal) and the Leeds Philharmonic Chorus.
1969
15 February: BBC Concert Orchestra (Arthur Leavins/Marcus Dods) with Rae Woodland and William McAlpine (vocal)
15 March: English Chamber Orchestra (Emanuel Hurwitz/Daniel Barenboim) with Barenboim, Hurwitz and Cecil Aronowitz.
4 October: Slovak Chamber Orchestra (Bohdan Warchal, leader and director) with Alexander Cattarino and Bohdan Warchal
18 October: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with Ivan Davis (piano)
1 November: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra (Gabor Radnai/Jean Fournet)
8 November: Netherlands Chamber Orchestra (Thomas Magyar/Szymon Goldberg.
6 December: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Reginald Stead/Moshe Atzmon) with Kathleen Jones (piano)
Volume 3 (1970-74)
1970
17 January: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Neville Tawell/Hugo Rignold) with Allan Schiller (piano).
31 January: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Reginald Stead/Bryden Thomson) with Bronislav Gimpel (violin)
7 March: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
21 March: London Mozart Players (led by John Ludlow) with Peter Frankl (piano)
3 October: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with Felix Kok and John Bradbury (violin) and the Leeds Festival Singers
7 October: London Mozart Players, with Andre Tchaikowsky (piano)
31 October: Scottish National Orchestra, with Keith Pearson (clarinet)
7 November: Israel Chamber Orchestra (Alexander Tal/Gary Bertini) with Rema Samsonov (vocal), Semadar Shazar (oboe) and Amos Eisenberg (flute)
14 November: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Reginald Stead/Akeo Watanabe) with Igor Ozim (violin)
1971
30 January: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra (Gabor Radnai/Jean Fournet)
20 February: English Chamber Orchestra (Kenneth Sillito/Geza Anda)
6 March: Munich Philharmonic Orchestra (Kurt Guntner/Rudolf Kempe)
20 March: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with Sergio Varella-Cid (piano)
16 October: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Reginald Stead/Jascha Horenstein) with Paul Tortelier (cello). Two copies.
6 November: Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra (Zoltan Dory/Janos Ferencsik) with Denes Kovacs (violin)
4 December: Slovak Chamber Orchestra (leader/director, Bohdan Warchal) with Alexander Cattarino (harpsichord), Viliam Dobrucky and Bohdan Warchal (violin)
1972
1 January: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
29 January: London Mozart Players, with Radu Lupu (piano)
12 February: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Barry Griffiths/Walter Susskind) with Iona Brown (violin)
26 February: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with Peter Pears (tenor)
4 March: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (Brendan O’Brien/George Hurst)
18 March: English Chamber Orchestra (Kenneth Sillito and Jose-Luis Garcia/Pinchas Zukerman) with Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Eugenia Zukerman (flute) and Philip Ledger (harpsichord)
8 April: Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig (Kurt Masur, conductor)
7 October: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (Brendan O’Brien/Paavo Berglund) with Peter Katin (piano)
28 October: London Mozart Players, with Angela Malsbury (clarinet) and Donald Hunt (organ)
11 November: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (Bruno Belcik/Vaclav Neumann)
1973
6 January: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (led by John Bradbury, with Has Richter-Haaser (piano)
20 January: London Mozart Players, with Gyorgy Pauk (violin)
27 January: Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra (Karol Teutsch, leader and director) with Fou Ts’Ong (piano)
17 February: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Barry Griffiths/Bryden Thomson) with Michael Roll (piano)
3 March: Scottish National Orchestra
10 March: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (Brendan O’Brien/Paavo Berglund) with Arthur Lima (piano)
31 March: City of Leeds Youth Orchestra (Marshall Marcus/Bernard Armour) with John Payne and David Rix (clarinet)
7 April: Royal Danish Orchestra (Eyvind Sand Kjeldsen/Jerzy Semkow)
6 October: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Barry Griffiths/Raymond Leppard) with Don Garrard (bass) and Leeds Festival Chorus.
3 November: Prague Symphony Orchestra (M. Lastovka/Jindrich Rohan)
1 December: Orchestre de Chambre de Versailles (Bernard Wahl/Philippe Muller)
1974
19 January: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Barry Griffiths/Brian Priestman) with Janet Craxton (oboe)
9 February: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (Brendan O’Brien/Paavo Berglund) with Ida Haendel (violin)
2 March: Yorkshire Sinfonia Orchestra (Herbert Whone/Meredith Davies) with Donald Hunt (organ)
9 March: London Mozart Players (led by Joseph Frohlich) with Mayumi Fujikawa (violin)
30 March: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra (Gabor Radnai/Edo de Waart) with Gerard Hettema (violin)
11 May: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
28 September: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Barry Griffiths/Raymond Leppard) with Murray Perahia (piano)
12 October: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Barry Griffiths/Walter Susskind) with Gyorgy Pauk (violin)
26 October: Yorkshire Sinfonia (Herbert Whone/Meredith Davies) with Mary Wells, Marjorie Biggar, Bernard Dickerson and Lawrence Richard (vocal) and the Leeds Philharmonic Society and Halifax Choral Society.
16 November: Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra (Varujan Cosighian/Mihai Brediceanu) with Ion Voicu (violin)
14 December: London Mozart Players (led by John Glickman) with Claude Frank (piano)
Volume 4 (1975-79)
11 January: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with Daniel Adni (piano)
8 February: Slovak Chamber Orchestra (Bohdan Warchal, director/leader)
15 February: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (Brendan O’Brien/Paavo Berglund) with Arto Noras (cello)
22 February: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Barry Griffiths/Maurice Handford)
5 March: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor) with Uri Pianka and Moshe Murvitz (violins)
8 March: Scottish National Orchestra (led by Michael D. Davis) with Igor Oistrakh (violin)
5 April: English Chamber Orchestra (Carl Pini/Geza Anda) with Geza Anda (piano)
4 May: BBC Concert Orchestra (Arthur Leavins/Vilem Tausky) with Catherine Wilson and John Brecknock (vocal)
11 October: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Barry Griffiths/Zdenek Macal) with David Wilde
25 October: Janacek Chamber Orchestra (Zdenek Dejmek, leader/director) with Jan Haliska (cello) and soloists and chorus from Northern Opera.
6 December: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (Bruno Belcik/Vaclav Neumann)
1976
10 January: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (Felix Kok and John Bradbury/Jean Fournet)
31 January: Leeds Festival Orchestra and Chorus, (Leonard Friedman/Alexander Goehr) with Hannah Francis, Joy Roberts, Paul Esswood, Nigel Rogers, Graham Titus and Alan Haydock (vocal)
28 February: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (Brendan O’Brien/Paavo Berglund) with Felicity Palmer (vocal)
20 March: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Leeds Philharmonic Society Chorus (John Bradbury/Meredith Davies) with Sandra Browne, Gerald English and Malcolm King (vocal). Elgar, The Dream of Gerontius.
3 April: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Barry Griffiths/Raymond Leppard) with Iona Brown (violin)
10 April: London Mozart Players (John Glickman/Szymon Goldberg)
24 April: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus with the Yorkshire Imperial Metals Band (John Bradbury/Louis Fremaux) with Ralph Holmes (violin) and April Cantelo, Barbara Rowbotham and Brian Rayner-Cook (vocal)
26 June: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Barry Griffiths/Kurt Masur) and Jean Bernard-Pommier (piano)
10 July: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Barry Griffiths/Christopher Adey) with Neil Jenkins
25 September: Scottish National Orchestra (led by Edwin Paling) with Malcuzynski (piano)
30 October: London Mozart Players (John Glickman/Paul Torterlier)
20 November: Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra (Zoltán Döry/János Ferencsik) with Dezsö Ránki (piano)
27 November: Norddeutsche Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra (Rudolf Werthen/Moshe Atzmon) with Bertold Bayer (clarinet)
4 December: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with Richard Lewis (tenor)
1977
12 January: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Barry Griffiths/Yoav Talmi) with Paul Crossley (piano)
29 January: London Sinfonietta (David Atherton, conductor)
12 February: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Andrew Orton/Erich Schmid) with James Galway (flute)
19 February: Bach Orchestra of the Gewandhaus of Leipzig (Gerhard Bosse, director/leader), with Gerhard Bosse (violin), Peter Fischer (oboe), Heinz Hörzsch (flute) and Hannes Kästner (harpsichord). Bach Concert.
26 February: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (Brendan O’Brien/Volker Wangenheim) with Janet Price (vocal).
23 April: London Mozart Players (led by John Glickman) with Janina Fialkowska (piano)
30 April: Yorkshire Sinfonia (Peter Mountain/Manoug Parikian) with Malcolm Binns (piano), Manoug Parikian and Peter Mountain (violin) and Anna Shuttleworth (cello)
14 May: Leeds Philharmonic Society and the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Barry Griffiths/Meredith Davies) with Ann-Marie Conors, Margaret Cable, Martyn Hill and Ian Caddy (vocal)
24 September: A Royal Entertainment in association with the BBC, given by the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra and Leeds Philharmonic Society (Dennis Simons/Sir Charles Groves) with Iona Brown (violin) and Simon Lindley (organ)
22 October: English Chamber Orchestra (Harry Cawood/Steuart Bedford and Anthony Halstead) with Michael Roll (piano) and Neil Black (oboe).
29 October: Yorkshire Sinfonia (Roger Garland/Manoug Parikian) with Ruggiero Ricci and Manoug Parikian (violin)
5 November: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (Gerhard Bosse/Kurt Masur) with Siegfried Lorenz (vocal) and Hannes Kästner (organ)
25 November: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (Bruno Belcik/Vaclav Neumann). Beethoven Anniversary Concert.
1978
21 January: Brighouse and Rastrick Band (Major George Evans, conductor) with Stephen Lord (euphonium)
28 January: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Barry Griffiths/Kyril Kondrashin) with Gidon Kremer (violin)
4 February: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (led by John Bradbury) with Miriam Fried (violin) and David Bruce-Payne (piano)
11 February: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (Andrzej Grabiec and Klemens Bortel/Jerzy Maksymiuk) with Konstanty Kulka (violin)
25 February: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (Brendan O’Brien/Paavo Berglund) with David Lively (piano)
4 March: L’Orchestre de Chambre de Versailles (Maryvonne le Dizes/Bernard Wahl)
22 April: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Dennis Simons/Kurt Sanderling) with Felicity Lott (vocal)
29 April: Britten, War Requiem with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (Barrie Moore/Meredith Davies), CBSO Chamber Ensemble, Leeds Philharmonic Society Choir and Choristers of Leeds Parish Church, with Teresa Cahill, Anthony Rolfe Johnson and John Shirley-Quirk (vocal)
Parcel
With the exception of the prospectus, all documents containing in this parcel carry biographical (with photos), historical and descriptive notes.
Leeds Town Hall
4 November 1961, 21 March 1964 and 13 February and 11 December 1965: programme booklets for performances given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. The programmes for 1961 and 1965 carry a list of the orchestral ensemble.
4 November 1961: Ann Shein (piano), led by Paul Beard and conducted by Rudolf Schwarz.
21 March 1964: Maurice Gendron (cello) and Harry Danks (viola), led by Hugh Macquire and conducted by Antal Dorati
13 February 1965: Alexander Young (tenor) and Douglas Moore (horn), led by Norman Nelson and conducted by Walter Susskind.
11 December 1965: Robert Riefling (piano), led by Hugh Maguire and conducted by Sixten Ehrling. List of the orchestra, biographical, historical and descriptive notes.
17 May 1972: programme book for a recital given by Flor Peeters to mark the Inauguration of the Rebuilt Organ. The notes provided include comments on the venue and on the instrument (with specifications).
Prospectus, with programmes, for the Orchestral Concerts and Recitals 1977-78, hosted by the Leeds Leisure Services. This includes detailed information (with photos) regarding the various performers and ensembles engaged.
Grand Theatre and Opera House
18 May 1975: Gala Recital/Artur Rubinstein (piano)
9 November 1975: Tortelier Trio with the London Mozart Players and Joseph Fröhlich (guest leader), conducted by Harry Blech.
Leeds City Council Libraries and Arts Committee (1956-78)
All prospectuses including a list of the orchestra, conductors, ensembles and performers engaged for the season and provide an index of the music performed. Some also including ticket booking information and photos of certain principal performers.
All programme booklets carry biographical, historical and description notes (only a very few or which include musical examples). A large number also include a list of the orchestral ensemble.
In the listings below, information regarding the leader and the conductor of each performance is given in parenthesis after the name of the orchestra.
Unless otherwise stated, the following orchestras were led/conducted by the following musicians:
Scottish National Orchestra: Sam Bar/Alexander Gibson)
London Mozart Players: Robert Master/Harry Blech
CBSO: Kok/Rignold (-1968), Kok/Fremeux (1969
Unless otherwise stated below, Hallé Orchestra was led by Martin Milner by the London Symphony Orchestra by Hugh Maguire. The names of the conductors for these ensembles appear in parenthesis below.
Volume 1 (1960-64)
1960
16 January: Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra (Witold Rowicki, cond.) with Wanda Wilkomirska (violin)
6 February: Miscellaneous Operatic Concert with Joan Hammond, Charles Craig, Stanley Clarkson, Denis Matthews and Ivor Newton.
13 February: BBC Concert Orchestra (William Armon/Vilem Tausky), with Helen Watts (alto), Eric Harrison (piano) and the Leeds Philharmonic Choir.
27 February: London Mozart Players, with Barry Tuckwell (horn)
12 March: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Raymond Cohen/Herman Lindars)
26 March: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (Gerhard Bosse/Franz Kowitschny) with Annerose Schmidt (piano)
16 April: Hallé Orchestra (Sir John Barbirolli)
23 April: Scottish National Orchestra, with Clifford Curzon (piano)
28 May: London Symphony Orchestra (Josef Krips) with Devy Erlih (violin)
24 September: Scottish National Orchestra (Sam Bar/Alexander Gibson), with Ida Haendel (violin)
8 October: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (led by Meyer Stolow)
5 November: Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra (Ferencsik, cond.)
3 December: Hallé Orchestra (Tauno Hannijainen), with André Tchaikowsky (piano).
10 December: London Mozart Players, with Robert Weisz (piano).
1961
8 January: London Philharmonic Orchestra (Henry Datyner/Pierino Gamba) with Rosalyn Tureck (piano).
21 January: English Chamber Orchestra (Raymond Leppard, conductor) with Emanuel Hurwitz (violin) and Cecil Aronowitz (viola)
4 February: Philharmonia Hungarica (Miltiades Caridis, conductor) with Lilian Kallir (piano)
11 February: Hallé Orchestra (George Weldon) with Denis Matthews (piano)
18 February: London Symphony Orchestra (Paul Hindemith) with Gervase de Peyer (clarinet).
4 March: Hallé Orchestra (Herman Lindars) with Julius Katchen (piano).
11 March: Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra (Karl Munchinger, conductor)
26 March: Scottish National Orchestra, with Gaspar Cassado (cello)
8 April: A Celebrity Concert with Jacqueline Delman, Constance Shacklock, Charles Craig and Nowakowski (vocal) and Leon Goosens (oboe), accomp. by Ivor Newton
15 April, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (Meyer Stolow/Sir Adrian Boult) with Colin Horsley (piano)
29 April: Hallé Orchestra (Sir John Barbirolli). This concert was held at Foxwood School.
11 November: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (Felix Kok/Constantin Silvestri), with Peter Katin (piano)
26 November: Scottish National Orchestra, with Joan Dickson (cello)
2 December: Boyd Neel Orchestra (Raymond Leppard, conductor), with Carmen Prietto and Joseph Ward (vocal).
1962
6 January: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with Campoli (violin)
20 January: London Mozart Players
27 January: London Symphony Orchestra (Jascha Horenstein) with Malcolm Binns (piano).
10 February: Hallé Orchestra (Carlo Felice Cillario) with Endre Wolf (violin).
17 February: London Symphony Orchestra (Paul Kletzki) with Nan Merriman and Frutz Uhl (vocal).
24 February: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (Bruno Belcik and Bretislav Ludvik/ Karel Ancerl
10 March: Hallé Orchestra (Malcolm Arnold) with Geza Anda (piano).
14 April: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (led by Meyer Stolow), with Ralph Holmes (violin)
21 April: Hallé Orchestra (Sir John Barbirolli) with Daniel Wayenberg (piano) and a section of the Halle Choir.
28 April: London Symphony Orchestra (Antal Dorati) with Ivry Gitlis – Stravinsky 80th Birthday Concert
19 May: Scottish National Orchestra, with Fou Ts’Ong (piano).
27 June: Moscow Chamber Orchestra (Rudolph Barshai, director)
10 November: Boyd Neel Orchestra (Lionel Bentley/Raymond Leppard) with Paul Tortelier (cello).
1964
1 February: London Philharmonic Orchestra (Henry Datyner/Sir Adrian Boult) with Colin Horsley (piano)
15 February: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (led by John Georgiadis) with Manoug Parikian (violin)
14 March: Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra (Johannes Brüning/Karl Munchinger).
28 March: Hallé Orchestra (Sir John Barbirolli) with Peter Katin (piano)
9 May: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (Rudolf Koeckert/Rafael Kubelik)
26 September: Scottish National Orchestra, with Stephen Bishop (piano)
10 October: London Mozart Players, with Peter Wallfisch (piano)
31 October: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (led by John Georgiadis) with Alan Loveday (violin) and Amaryllis Fleming (cello)
7 November: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Raymond Cohen/Massimo Freccia)
14 November: Hallé Orchestra (Goerges Tzipine) with Tamás Vásáry (piano)
5 December: Bath Festival Orchestra (Robert Masters/Yehudi Menuhin)
12 December: BBC Concert Orchestra (Arthur Leaving/Vilem Tausky) with Elizabeth Fretwell (vocal) and Semprini (piano).
Volume 2 (1965-69)
1965
2 January: Hallé Orchestra (Sir John Barbirolli)
30 January: Boyd Neel Orchestra (Lionel Bentley/Charles Groves) with John Williams (guitar) and Alan Jones (baritone)
20 February: Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra (Živojin Zdravkovitc, conductor)
27 February: London Philharmonic Orchestra (Rodney Friend/Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos)
10 April: Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra (Mladen Basic, conductor)
24 April: Hallé Orchestra (Sir John Barbirolli, cond.)
2 October: Scottish National Orchestra, with Manoug Parikian (violin)
13 November: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (Gerhard Bosse/Vaclav Neumann)
28 November: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (Bruno Belick/Karel Ancerl)
1966
15 January: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with Ruth Waterman (violin).
29 January: London Mozart Players, with Nina Milkina (piano)
12 February: English Chamber Orchestra (Emanuel Hurwitz/Raymond Leppard) with Ida Haendel (violin)
19 February: Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra (Janos Ferencsik, conductor)
26 February: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with Claude Frank
5 March: Zurich Chamber Orchestra (Volker Worlitzsch/Edmond de Stoutz) with Hephzibah Menuhin (piano)
12 March: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Jurgen Hess/Rudolf Kempe)
16 April: New Philharmonia Orchestra (Hugh Bean/Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos), with Allan Schiller (piano)
23 April: The Little Symphony of London (Derek Collier/Arthur Davidson), with Peter Katin (piano)
30 April: Munich Philharmonic Orchestra (Friedrich Sonnleitner/Fritz Rieger)
13 July: Hungarian Gypsy Ensemble – Rajko
1 October: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (Paul Collins/Charles Groves) in the final stages of the second Leeds International Pianoforte Competition. Includes photos of the adjudicators.
8 October: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with Mindru Katz (piano)
15 October: Brno Philharmonic Orchestra (Jiri Waldhans, conductor)
12 November: London Mozart Players, with Marisa Robles (flute) and Christopher Hyde-Smith (harp)
3 December: Philharmonia Hungarica (Miltiades Caridis, conductor) with Peter Frankl (piano)
1967
21 January: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with Daniel Barenboim (piano)
4 February: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Reginald Stead/George Hurst) with Endre Wolf (violin).
11 February: Prague Symphony Orchestra (Stefan Czápari/Zdenek Kosler)
25 February: BBC Concert Orchestra (Arthur Leavins/Marcus Dods), with Elizabeth Vaughan and Robert Thomas (vocal) and Ronald Smith (piano).
18 March: The Little Symphony of London (Derek Collier/Arthur Davison) with Andre Tchaikowsky (piano)
8 April: Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra (Igor Iwano/Stanislaw Wislocki) with Wanda Wilkomirska (violin)
7 October: Bach Orchestra of Leipzig with Gerhard Bosse (leader, director and soloist).
28 October: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra (Franz Berger and Takaya Urakawa/Rudolfe Kempe)
4 November: English Chamber Orchestra (Kenneth Sillito/Raymond Leppard) with Stephen Bishop (piano)
11 November: Berliner Staatskapelle (Karl Suske and Heinz Schunk/Kurt Masur) with Annelies Burmeister (vocal)
2 December: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (Felix Kok/Hugo Rignold)
1968
3 February: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with Hilary Robinson (cello)
2 March: Prague Symphony Orchestra (Stefan Czápari/Vaclav Smetacek) with Ivan Moravec (piano)
27 April: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Reginald Stead/George Hurst) with Elizabeth Vaughan, Alfreda Hodgson, John Mitchinson and Colin Wheatley (vocal) and the Leeds Philharmonic Chorus.
1969
15 February: BBC Concert Orchestra (Arthur Leavins/Marcus Dods) with Rae Woodland and William McAlpine (vocal)
15 March: English Chamber Orchestra (Emanuel Hurwitz/Daniel Barenboim) with Barenboim, Hurwitz and Cecil Aronowitz.
4 October: Slovak Chamber Orchestra (Bohdan Warchal, leader and director) with Alexander Cattarino and Bohdan Warchal
18 October: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with Ivan Davis (piano)
1 November: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra (Gabor Radnai/Jean Fournet)
8 November: Netherlands Chamber Orchestra (Thomas Magyar/Szymon Goldberg.
6 December: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Reginald Stead/Moshe Atzmon) with Kathleen Jones (piano)
Volume 3 (1970-74)
1970
17 January: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Neville Tawell/Hugo Rignold) with Allan Schiller (piano).
31 January: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Reginald Stead/Bryden Thomson) with Bronislav Gimpel (violin)
7 March: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
21 March: London Mozart Players (led by John Ludlow) with Peter Frankl (piano)
3 October: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with Felix Kok and John Bradbury (violin) and the Leeds Festival Singers
7 October: London Mozart Players, with Andre Tchaikowsky (piano)
31 October: Scottish National Orchestra, with Keith Pearson (clarinet)
7 November: Israel Chamber Orchestra (Alexander Tal/Gary Bertini) with Rema Samsonov (vocal), Semadar Shazar (oboe) and Amos Eisenberg (flute)
14 November: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Reginald Stead/Akeo Watanabe) with Igor Ozim (violin)
1971
30 January: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra (Gabor Radnai/Jean Fournet)
20 February: English Chamber Orchestra (Kenneth Sillito/Geza Anda)
6 March: Munich Philharmonic Orchestra (Kurt Guntner/Rudolf Kempe)
20 March: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with Sergio Varella-Cid (piano)
16 October: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Reginald Stead/Jascha Horenstein) with Paul Tortelier (cello). Two copies.
6 November: Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra (Zoltan Dory/Janos Ferencsik) with Denes Kovacs (violin)
4 December: Slovak Chamber Orchestra (leader/director, Bohdan Warchal) with Alexander Cattarino (harpsichord), Viliam Dobrucky and Bohdan Warchal (violin)
1972
1 January: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
29 January: London Mozart Players, with Radu Lupu (piano)
12 February: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Barry Griffiths/Walter Susskind) with Iona Brown (violin)
26 February: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with Peter Pears (tenor)
4 March: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (Brendan O’Brien/George Hurst)
18 March: English Chamber Orchestra (Kenneth Sillito and Jose-Luis Garcia/Pinchas Zukerman) with Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Eugenia Zukerman (flute) and Philip Ledger (harpsichord)
8 April: Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig (Kurt Masur, conductor)
7 October: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (Brendan O’Brien/Paavo Berglund) with Peter Katin (piano)
28 October: London Mozart Players, with Angela Malsbury (clarinet) and Donald Hunt (organ)
11 November: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (Bruno Belcik/Vaclav Neumann)
1973
6 January: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (led by John Bradbury, with Has Richter-Haaser (piano)
20 January: London Mozart Players, with Gyorgy Pauk (violin)
27 January: Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra (Karol Teutsch, leader and director) with Fou Ts’Ong (piano)
17 February: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Barry Griffiths/Bryden Thomson) with Michael Roll (piano)
3 March: Scottish National Orchestra
10 March: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (Brendan O’Brien/Paavo Berglund) with Arthur Lima (piano)
31 March: City of Leeds Youth Orchestra (Marshall Marcus/Bernard Armour) with John Payne and David Rix (clarinet)
7 April: Royal Danish Orchestra (Eyvind Sand Kjeldsen/Jerzy Semkow)
6 October: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Barry Griffiths/Raymond Leppard) with Don Garrard (bass) and Leeds Festival Chorus.
3 November: Prague Symphony Orchestra (M. Lastovka/Jindrich Rohan)
1 December: Orchestre de Chambre de Versailles (Bernard Wahl/Philippe Muller)
1974
19 January: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Barry Griffiths/Brian Priestman) with Janet Craxton (oboe)
9 February: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (Brendan O’Brien/Paavo Berglund) with Ida Haendel (violin)
2 March: Yorkshire Sinfonia Orchestra (Herbert Whone/Meredith Davies) with Donald Hunt (organ)
9 March: London Mozart Players (led by Joseph Frohlich) with Mayumi Fujikawa (violin)
30 March: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra (Gabor Radnai/Edo de Waart) with Gerard Hettema (violin)
11 May: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
28 September: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Barry Griffiths/Raymond Leppard) with Murray Perahia (piano)
12 October: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Barry Griffiths/Walter Susskind) with Gyorgy Pauk (violin)
26 October: Yorkshire Sinfonia (Herbert Whone/Meredith Davies) with Mary Wells, Marjorie Biggar, Bernard Dickerson and Lawrence Richard (vocal) and the Leeds Philharmonic Society and Halifax Choral Society.
16 November: Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra (Varujan Cosighian/Mihai Brediceanu) with Ion Voicu (violin)
14 December: London Mozart Players (led by John Glickman) with Claude Frank (piano)
Volume 4 (1975-79)
11 January: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with Daniel Adni (piano)
8 February: Slovak Chamber Orchestra (Bohdan Warchal, director/leader)
15 February: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (Brendan O’Brien/Paavo Berglund) with Arto Noras (cello)
22 February: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Barry Griffiths/Maurice Handford)
5 March: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor) with Uri Pianka and Moshe Murvitz (violins)
8 March: Scottish National Orchestra (led by Michael D. Davis) with Igor Oistrakh (violin)
5 April: English Chamber Orchestra (Carl Pini/Geza Anda) with Geza Anda (piano)
4 May: BBC Concert Orchestra (Arthur Leavins/Vilem Tausky) with Catherine Wilson and John Brecknock (vocal)
11 October: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Barry Griffiths/Zdenek Macal) with David Wilde
25 October: Janacek Chamber Orchestra (Zdenek Dejmek, leader/director) with Jan Haliska (cello) and soloists and chorus from Northern Opera.
6 December: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (Bruno Belcik/Vaclav Neumann)
1976
10 January: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (Felix Kok and John Bradbury/Jean Fournet)
31 January: Leeds Festival Orchestra and Chorus, (Leonard Friedman/Alexander Goehr) with Hannah Francis, Joy Roberts, Paul Esswood, Nigel Rogers, Graham Titus and Alan Haydock (vocal)
28 February: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (Brendan O’Brien/Paavo Berglund) with Felicity Palmer (vocal)
20 March: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Leeds Philharmonic Society Chorus (John Bradbury/Meredith Davies) with Sandra Browne, Gerald English and Malcolm King (vocal). Elgar, The Dream of Gerontius.
3 April: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Barry Griffiths/Raymond Leppard) with Iona Brown (violin)
10 April: London Mozart Players (John Glickman/Szymon Goldberg)
24 April: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus with the Yorkshire Imperial Metals Band (John Bradbury/Louis Fremaux) with Ralph Holmes (violin) and April Cantelo, Barbara Rowbotham and Brian Rayner-Cook (vocal)
26 June: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Barry Griffiths/Kurt Masur) and Jean Bernard-Pommier (piano)
10 July: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Barry Griffiths/Christopher Adey) with Neil Jenkins
25 September: Scottish National Orchestra (led by Edwin Paling) with Malcuzynski (piano)
30 October: London Mozart Players (John Glickman/Paul Torterlier)
20 November: Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra (Zoltán Döry/János Ferencsik) with Dezsö Ránki (piano)
27 November: Norddeutsche Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra (Rudolf Werthen/Moshe Atzmon) with Bertold Bayer (clarinet)
4 December: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with Richard Lewis (tenor)
1977
12 January: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Barry Griffiths/Yoav Talmi) with Paul Crossley (piano)
29 January: London Sinfonietta (David Atherton, conductor)
12 February: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Andrew Orton/Erich Schmid) with James Galway (flute)
19 February: Bach Orchestra of the Gewandhaus of Leipzig (Gerhard Bosse, director/leader), with Gerhard Bosse (violin), Peter Fischer (oboe), Heinz Hörzsch (flute) and Hannes Kästner (harpsichord). Bach Concert.
26 February: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (Brendan O’Brien/Volker Wangenheim) with Janet Price (vocal).
23 April: London Mozart Players (led by John Glickman) with Janina Fialkowska (piano)
30 April: Yorkshire Sinfonia (Peter Mountain/Manoug Parikian) with Malcolm Binns (piano), Manoug Parikian and Peter Mountain (violin) and Anna Shuttleworth (cello)
14 May: Leeds Philharmonic Society and the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Barry Griffiths/Meredith Davies) with Ann-Marie Conors, Margaret Cable, Martyn Hill and Ian Caddy (vocal)
24 September: A Royal Entertainment in association with the BBC, given by the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra and Leeds Philharmonic Society (Dennis Simons/Sir Charles Groves) with Iona Brown (violin) and Simon Lindley (organ)
22 October: English Chamber Orchestra (Harry Cawood/Steuart Bedford and Anthony Halstead) with Michael Roll (piano) and Neil Black (oboe).
29 October: Yorkshire Sinfonia (Roger Garland/Manoug Parikian) with Ruggiero Ricci and Manoug Parikian (violin)
5 November: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (Gerhard Bosse/Kurt Masur) with Siegfried Lorenz (vocal) and Hannes Kästner (organ)
25 November: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (Bruno Belcik/Vaclav Neumann). Beethoven Anniversary Concert.
1978
21 January: Brighouse and Rastrick Band (Major George Evans, conductor) with Stephen Lord (euphonium)
28 January: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Barry Griffiths/Kyril Kondrashin) with Gidon Kremer (violin)
4 February: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (led by John Bradbury) with Miriam Fried (violin) and David Bruce-Payne (piano)
11 February: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (Andrzej Grabiec and Klemens Bortel/Jerzy Maksymiuk) with Konstanty Kulka (violin)
25 February: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (Brendan O’Brien/Paavo Berglund) with David Lively (piano)
4 March: L’Orchestre de Chambre de Versailles (Maryvonne le Dizes/Bernard Wahl)
22 April: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Dennis Simons/Kurt Sanderling) with Felicity Lott (vocal)
29 April: Britten, War Requiem with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (Barrie Moore/Meredith Davies), CBSO Chamber Ensemble, Leeds Philharmonic Society Choir and Choristers of Leeds Parish Church, with Teresa Cahill, Anthony Rolfe Johnson and John Shirley-Quirk (vocal)
Parcel
With the exception of the prospectus, all documents containing in this parcel carry biographical (with photos), historical and descriptive notes.
Leeds Town Hall
4 November 1961, 21 March 1964 and 13 February and 11 December 1965: programme booklets for performances given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. The programmes for 1961 and 1965 carry a list of the orchestral ensemble.
4 November 1961: Ann Shein (piano), led by Paul Beard and conducted by Rudolf Schwarz.
21 March 1964: Maurice Gendron (cello) and Harry Danks (viola), led by Hugh Macquire and conducted by Antal Dorati
13 February 1965: Alexander Young (tenor) and Douglas Moore (horn), led by Norman Nelson and conducted by Walter Susskind.
11 December 1965: Robert Riefling (piano), led by Hugh Maguire and conducted by Sixten Ehrling. List of the orchestra, biographical, historical and descriptive notes.
17 May 1972: programme book for a recital given by Flor Peeters to mark the Inauguration of the Rebuilt Organ. The notes provided include comments on the venue and on the instrument (with specifications).
Prospectus, with programmes, for the Orchestral Concerts and Recitals 1977-78, hosted by the Leeds Leisure Services. This includes detailed information (with photos) regarding the various performers and ensembles engaged.
Grand Theatre and Opera House
18 May 1975: Gala Recital/Artur Rubinstein (piano)
9 November 1975: Tortelier Trio with the London Mozart Players and Joseph Fröhlich (guest leader), conducted by Harry Blech.
Leeds City Council Libraries and Arts Committee (1956-78)
Format
Date range of collection
1956 - 1978
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Suggested Audience
Not Specific
Associated People or Organisations
- Zurich Chamber Orchestra -
- Yorkshire Sinfonia -
- Yorkshire Imperial Metals Band -
- Wislocki, Stanislaw -
- Weldon, George -
- Watanabe, Akeo -
- Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra -
- Warchal, Bohdan -
- Wangenheim, Volker -
- Waldhans, Jiri -
- Waart, Edo de -
- Tzipine, Georges -
- Thomson, Bryden -
- Thomas, Michael Tilson -
- Tausky, Vilem -
- Talmi, Yoav -
- Susskind, Walter -
- Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra -
- Stravinsky, Igor -
- Stoutz, Edmond de -
- Smetacek, Vaclav -
- Slovak Chamber Orchestra -
- Silvestri, Constantin -
- Shacklock, Constance -
- Semkow, Jerzy -
- Scottish National Orchestra -
- Schwarz, Rudolf -
- Schmid, Erich -
- Sanderling, Kurt -
- Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra -
- Rubinstein, Artur 1887-01-28 - 1982-12-20
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra -
- Royal Danish Orchestra -
- Rowicki, Witold -
- Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra -
- Rignold, Hugo -
- Rieger, Fritz -
- Priestman, Brian -
- Prague Symphony Orchestra -
- Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra -
- Philharmonia Hungarica -
- Parikian, Manoug -
- Orchestre de Chambre de Versailles -
- Nowakowski, Marian -
- Norddeutsche Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra -
- Newton, Ivor -
- New Philharmonic Orchestra -
- Neumann, Vaclav -
- Netherlands Chamber Orchestra -
- Munich Philharmonic Orchestra -
- Munchinger, Karl -
- Moscow Chamber Orchestra -
- Menuhin, Yehudi -
- Matthews, Denis -
- Masur, Kurt -
- Masur, Kurt -
- Maksymiuk, Jerzy -
- Macal, Zdenek -
- London Symphony Orchestra -
- London Sinfonietta -
- London Philharmonic Orchestra 1932 -
- London Mozart Players -
- Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra -
- Little Symphony of London -
- Lindars, Herman -
- Leppard, Raymond 1927 -
- Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra -
- Leeds Philharmonic Society -
- Leeds Festival Orchestra -
- Leeds Festival Chorus -
- Kubelik, Rafael -
- Kosler, Zdenek -
- Konwitschny, Franz -
- Kondrashin, Kyril -
- Kletzki, Paul -
- Kempe, Rudolf -
- Janacek Chamber Orchestra -
- Israel Philharmonic Orchestra -
- Israel Chamber Orchestra -
- Hurst, George -
- Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra -
- Horenstein, Jascha -
- Hindemith, Paul -
- Hannikainen, Tauno -
- Handford, Maurice -
- Hammond, Joan -
- Halstead, Anthony -
- Hallé Orchestra -
- Halifax Choral Society -
- Groves, Charles -
- Goossens, Léon -
- Goldberg, Szymon 1909 - 1993
- Goehr, Alexander -
- Gibson, Alexander 1926 - 1995
- Gamba, Pierino -
- Fremaux, Louis -
- Freccia, Massimo -
- Fournet, Jean -
- Ferencsik, János -
- Evans, George -
- English Chamber Orchestra -
- Ehrling, Sixten -
- Dorati, Antal -
- Dods, Marcus -
- Delman, Jacqueline -
- Dejmek, Zdenek -
- Davies, Meredith -
- Davidson, Arthur -
- Czech Philharmonic Orchestra -
- Craig, Charles -
- Clarkson, Stanley -
- City of Leeds Youth Orchestra -
- City of Leeds Music and Civic Theatre Committee -
- City of Leeds Libraries and Arts Committees -
- City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra -
- Cillario, Carlo Felice -
- Caridis, Miltiades -
- Frühbeck de Burgos, Rafael 1933 -
- Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra -
- Brno Philharmonic Orchestra -
- British Broadcasting Corporation -
- Brighouse and Rastrick Band -
- Brediceanu, Mihai -
- Bradbury, John -
- Boyd Neel Orchestra -
- Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra -
- Boult, Adrian -
- Bosse, Gerhard -
- Blech, Harry -
- Bertini, Gary -
- Berglund, Paavo -
- Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra -
- Beethoven, Ludwig van -
- Bedford, Steuart -
- BBC Symphony Orchestra -
- BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra -
- BBC Concert Orchestra -
- Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra -
- Bath Festival Orchestra -
- Basic, Mladen -
- Barshai, Rudolph -
- Barenboim, Daniel -
- Barbirolli, John -
- Bamberg Symphony Orchestra -
- Bach Orchestra of Leipzig -
- Atzmon, Moshe -
- Atherton, David -
- Arnold, Malcolm -
- Armour, Bernard -
- Anda, Geza -
- Adey, Christopher -
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