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1900s

1903 (Dec 11): ELIJAH - Mendelssohn (St.George's Hall, Bradford)
Agnes Nicholls, Muriel Foster, William Green, Frangcon Davies, Halle Orchestra, cond:Dr.Frederic Cowen [4pp; VVG] £3

1910s
No programmes available

1920s

1922 (Feb 27): FEODOR CHALIAPINE Concert (Queen's Hall)
Feodor Chaliapine (bass), Isolde Menges (violin), Manlio Di Veroli (piano) [68pp; consists of buff outer cover, and extensive booklet with English translations of "Chaliapine's Repertoire of Seventy-Seven Russian Songs and Ballads"; a few very light marks, but VVG] £SOLD

1924 (Jun 2): MARGUERITE D'ALVAREZ Song Recital (Queen's Hall)
Marguerite D'Alvarez (contralto), Lyell Barber (piano) [Rachmaninov, Debussy, Ireland etc.; 8pp w.photographic cover; SIGNED BY D'ALVAREZ; rumpled, with horizontal crease and light pencil annotations] £5

1924 (Jun 21): MARGUERITE D'ALVAREZ Song Recital (Queen's Hall)
Marguerite D'Alvarez (contralto), Lyell Barber (piano) [Borodin, Saint-Saens, Spanish songs, etc.; 8pp w.photographic cover; SIGNED BY D'ALVAREZ; rumpled, with some light pencil annotations] £6

1925? (23 April): POUISHNOFF (Wigmore Hall)
Leff Pouishnoff, 1891-1959 (piano): Larghetto in A major/Mozart, Organ Concerto in D minor/W.F.Bach, Phantasie, Op.17/Schumann, Two Fairy Tales, Tango/Pouishnoff, Prelude in B major/Rachmaninov, Two Poems, Op.32/Scriabine, Fantasie in F minor/Chopin [single sheet programme for Pouishnoff's "Only Recital"; 10x8.25; ticket prices, recital programme, etc.; firm vertical fold; VG] £4

1930s

1931 (Nov): EMMI LEISNER Recital (Queen's Hall) Courtauld-Sargent Concert
Emmi Leisner (contralto), Ivor Newton (piano), Chamber Orchestra [Handel, Brahms, Beethoven, Schubert; 20pp; contains texts and translations; also details of other concerts in this remarkable series - conductors included Igor Stravinsky, Otto Klemperer and Malcolm Sargent, and Piatigorsky, Schnabel and Horowitz appeared; some pencil annotations] £4

1935: TREFOR JONES Press Criticisms Booklet (pub.Ibbs & Tillett)
Trefor Jones (tenor) [8pp; photographic cover; light pencil annotations; VVG] (£4) SOLD

1935-36: RICHARD TAUBER (International Celebrity Subscription Concerts)
Richard Tauber, Guila Bustabo (violin), Percy Kahn (piano). Full details of Tauber's programme, which consisted of songs by Schubert, Grieg, Richard Strauss and Lehar, with parallel German and English texts [20pp, 6.6x8.2; with large photos of Tauber and Bustabo, extensive two-page spread on Tauber's Parlophone-Odeon recordings (with photo); slightly grubby, with light vertical fold, else VG] £4

1936 (12 Feb): INFORMAL CONCERT: Choral Conductors (Royal College of Music)
Frank Bury, Robert Irving, Ralph Nicholson
Canzonet - Pipe, shepherds, pipe (Youll), Trio - Lullaby (Byrd), Zion hears her watchmen's voices (Bach), French Suite in E Minor (Bach; pianoforte/Ruth Holmes), Trios for Female Voices (Brahms), Variations on a Theme of Paganini (Brahms; pianoforte/Ruth Holmes), Pastoral - The Naiads' Music (Bliss)
[single sheet 5x8; notes, details of further concerts and recitals; VG] £2

1940s

1944 (30 Nov): BEECHAM CONCERT (Royal Albert Hall)
Sir Thomas Beecham, London Philharmonic Orchestra, leader:Jean Pougnet: Overture - The Flying Dutchman/Wagner, Symphony No.35, "Haffner"/Mozart, Variations on a Theme of Haydn/Brahms, Symphony No.7/Sibelius, Suite - "L'Arlesienne"/Bizet [8pp, 4x5; orchestra list, introduction, programme notes; most unusual; VG] (£4) SOLD

1944 (1 Dec): BEECHAM CONCERT (Royal Albert Hall)
Sir Thomas Beecham, London Philharmonic Orchestra, leader:Jean Pougnet: Overture - La Chasse de Jeune Henri/Mehul, Suite - The Faithful Shepherd/Handel (arr.Beecham), Act III Introduction, Dance of Apprentices, Homage to Sachs - The Mastersingers/Wagner, Symphony No.3, "Eroica"/Beethoven [8pp, 4x5; orchestra list, introduction, programme notes; most unusual; VG] £4

1944 (2 Dec): BEECHAM CONCERT (Royal Albert Hall)
Sir Thomas Beecham, London Philharmonic Orchestra, leader:Jean Pougnet: Overture - Nina, o la pazza d'amore/Paisiello, Symphony No.41, "Jupiter"/Mozart, Symphonic Variations/Dvorak, Piano Concerto/Handel-Beecham (soloist: Betty Humby Beecham), Summer Night on the River/Delius, On hearing the first Cuckoo in Spring/Delius, Overture - Oberon/Weber [8pp, 4x5; orchestra list, introduction, programme notes; most unusual; VG] £4

1945 (21 Oct): VIOLONCELLO RECITAL (Assembly Hall, Tunbridge Wells)
Casals ('cello), Gerald Moore (piano)
Sonata in D (Beethoven), Suite No.3 (Bach), Funf Stuke im Volkston (Schumann), Cantabile (Haydn), Moto Perpetuo (de Camargo), Rondo (Weber), Malaguena (Albeniz), Intermezzo (Granados)
[4pp, 5x8; programme notes; VG] £4

1946 (Mch 17): SAMSON - Handel (Methodist Church, Armley)
Sheila Rex (soprano), Mary Dale (contralto), Alan Fouracre (tenor), Fred Worton (bass) [4pp] £1

1946 (Apr 6): HIAWATHA'S WEDDING FEAST and MERRIE ENGLAND (Mechanics' Institute, Otley)
Olga Wakefield (soprano), Elsie Lawson (contralto), Ronald Murgatroyd (tenor), Arthur Waite (bass), cond:Sydney W.Parsons [4pp] £1

1949 (Jan 1): THE MESSIAH - Handel (Usher Hall, Edinburgh)
Margaret Field-Hyde, Mary Jarred, Heddle Nash, Ronald Stear [8pp; VVG+] £2

1950s

1950 (Jan 2): THE MESSIAH - Handel (Usher Hall, Edinburgh)
Isobel Baillie, Catherine Lawson, William Herbert, William Parsons [8pp; VVG+] £2

1950 (7 Nov): BUDAPEST QUARTET Recital (Kingsway Hall)
Philharmonia Concert Society - Mysore Concerts: The Budapest Quartet - Roisman, Kroyt, Gorodetzky, Schneider; Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven [8pp; notes by Alec Robertson; light folds, else VG] £4

1951 (30 May): CONCERT: Tallis, Stravinsky, Tippett (Royal Festival Hall)
Festival of Britain - Morley College Concerts Society: Spem in alium (Tallis), Ode; Babel (Stravinsky), A Child of Our Time (Tippett), with Margaret Ritchie (sop), Anne Wood (contralto), Richard Lewis (tenor), Inia Te Wiata (baritone), Frank Phillips (narrator), Ralph Downes (organ), Morley College Choir (director:Michael Tippett), Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Michael Tippett and Walter Goehr [16pp, 7.5x9.75; notes, texts and translations; photographs of Eva M.Hubback, Marini bronze of Stravinsky, Michael Tippett and Walter Goehr, the Morley College murals; very light fold, else VG] £4

1951 (19 Sep): LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Concert (Royal Festival Hall)
Wagner, Butterworth, Strauss, Elgar: London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir John Barbirolli, solo oboe: Evelyn Rothwell [20pp; photographs of Barbirolli and Josef Krips, notes with musical illustrations, biographies, forthcoming events, orchestra list; light crease, else VG] £4

1951 (23 Sep): LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Concert (Royal Festival Hall)
Beethoven: London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult [16pp; photograph of Boult, programme notes, forthcoming events, orchestra list; very lightly rumpled, else VG] £4

1953 (17 Nov): CANTATA (1952) - Stravinsky, FACADE - Walton (Royal Festival Hall)
Joan Cross, Arda Mandikian, Peter Pears, English Opera Group Ensemble c:Sacher [7.4x9.6, 28pp; w.notes and texts; VVG+] £4

1954 (13 Apr): ANDRE MARCHAL Organ Recital (Royal Festival Hall)
Andre Marchal (organ): Bach [8pp; notes etc.; VG] £2

1957 (13 Nov): BBC SYMPHONY CONCERT (Royal Festival Hall)
Beethoven, Wagner, Copland: BBC Symphony Orchestra, c:Jascha Horenstein [16pp, 6.25x8.75; stiff blue cover; photo of Horenstein, illustrated notes; VG] £4

1960s

1961 (29 Oct): PERSEPHONE - Stravinsky (Royal Festival Hall)
Vera Zorina, Loren Driscoll, BBC Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, c:Igor Stravinsky [5.1x8.25, 28pp; w.photos, text, article; vertical crease, else VG] £3

1963 (9 Jun): THE TCHAIKOVSKY STORY (Royal Festival Hall)
told by Joseph Cooper; with Gre Brouwenstijn (sop), Joseph Cooper (pno), Sinfonia of London, c:Meredith Davies [4pp, 7x9; notes, programme details; ticket stapled to cover; VG] £2

1964 (26 Apr): TCHAIKOVSKY CONCERT (Royal Albert Hall)
Malcolm Binns (pno), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Artillery Band, conducted by Maurice Miles; presented by Victor Hochhauser [12pp, 7.25x9.6; programme notes, photographs; ticket stapled to cover, minor marks on back; VG] £3

1964 (7 Jul): CHRISTMAS CONCERT (Royal Albert Hall)
A Pre-Prom Romp of Musical Wit & Humour; with Eric Harrison, Lionel Salter, William Rushton, Les Jingle Singers, Jonathan Routh, Fritz Spiegel, Denys Palmer, Harry Wild, Carter Lewis and The Southerners, The New London Former Ex-Royal Philharmonia, conducted by Fritz Spiegel; programme included Haydn Behind The Mast, Choral Prelude - Wackers Auf, Grieg Piano Concerto (soloist: Vladimir Robot), Concerto for Two Tuning Forks and Orchestra (Antony Hopkins), Tales from the Mersey Woods etc. etc. [4pp; humorous notes; ticket stapled to cover; VG] £4

1968 (Apr 9): TOSHIYA ETO Recital (Queen Elizabeth Hall)
Toshiya Eto ("Japan's Foremost Violinist"), Ernest Lush (piano) [8pp; glossy, w.photo; PLUS photographic flyer (pictured above); VVG+] £3

1968 (Dec 10): CONCERT OF CHRISTMAS MUSIC (Royal Albert Hall) Ernest Read Music Association
Sandra Wilkes, Marjorie Thomas, John Mitchinson, Michael Rippon, cond:John Railton [8pp] £2

1970s

1976 (12 Dec): ILEANA COTRUBAS Recital (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden)
Ileana Cotrubas, Geoffrey Parsons, piano; Five Lieder/Schubert, Seven Songs of Clement Marot/Enesco, The Poet's Echo/Britten, Five Lieder/Brahms [16pp w.photographic cover; biographies, notes, translations; w.five newsclipping reviews; VG] £4

1979 (11 Feb): FRANK KUBIK Recital (Purcell Room)
Frank Kubik (baritone), Gunther Bauer-Schenk (piano) [Schumann, Poulenc; press comment; 4pp; light vertical fold, else VG] £2

1979 (23 Apr): ST. JOHN PASSION - Bach (Royal Festival Hall)
Peter Pears, Ian Caddy, Felicity Lott, Helen Watts, Philip Langridge, John Shirley-Quirk, Bach Choir, English Chamber Orchestra c:David Willcocks [32pp; biographies w.photos, programme notes, English translation of text etc.; VG] £4

1980s

1980 (Jun 24): A CELEBRATION FOR THE LIFE OF JOHN CULSHAW (Kingsway Hall, London)
Nigel Black (horn), Sir Clifford Curzon (pno), Kenneth Sillito (vln), Neil Black (oboe), Alan Civil (horn), Sir Georg Solti, Humphrey Burton, Lorin Maazel (vln), Sir Huw Weldon, Leontyne Price (soprano) [8.25x11.75; 8pp; gold lettering on blue card; excellent condition] (£5) SOLD

1981 (Jan 20): PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA (Royal Festival Hall)
Suite No.3 in D - Bach, Mass In C Minor - Mozart: Ileana Cotrubas, Agnes Baltsa, Robert Tear, Hans Georg Ahrens, Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus; conducted by Riccardo Muti [7.3x9.75; 60pp; commentary, photos, biographies etc.; w.3 newsclipping reviews; VG] £4

1982 (1 Apr): LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Concert (Barbican Centre)
Symphony No.3/Harris, Symphonic Dances from 'West Side Story'/Bernstein, Washington's Birthday and The Fourth of July from The Holiday Symphony/Ives, An American In Paris/Gershwin: London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Mark Elder [28pp, photographic cover; notes, photographs, orchestra list, biographies; VG] £3

1984 (18 Nov): B MINOR MASS - J.S.Bach (St.Alfege's Church, Greenwich)
Monteverdi Choir, Nancy Argenta, Suzanne Flowers, Carol Hall, Michael Chance, Wynford Evans, Howard Milner, Stephen Varcoe, Richard Lloyd-Morgan, English Baroque Soloists, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner [16pp, 8.25x11.7; notes, texts and translations, photographs, biographies etc.; VG] £3

1986 (9 & 11 Mch): FAURE REQUIEM and SYMPHONY IN D minor - Cesar Franck (Royal Festival Hall)
Kathleen Battle, Andreas Schmidt, Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus c:Carlo Maria Giulini [44pp, 7.3x9.8; programme notes, text and translation, biographies w.photos etc.; VG] £4

1990s

1990-91: MOBIL CONCERT SEASON (Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich) Souvenir Brochure
Lavish Souvenir Booklet, with details of the six Concerts in the 1990-91 Mobil Season: LES ARTS FLORISSANTS: Acteon/Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Dido and Aeneas/Purcell, with Jean-Paul Fouchecourt, Veronique Gens, Claron McFadden, Noemi Rime, Jerome Correas etc., Les Arts Florissants directed by William Christie; THE KING'S CONSORT: Trumpet Suite/Handel, Concerto Grosso in E minor/Geminiani, Quadro in Bb/Telemann, Filiae maestae Jerusalem/Vivaldi, Music from The King's Theatre/Clarke, Great Parent, Hail!/Purcell, with Tessa Bonner (sop), James Bowman (counter-tenor), Mark Padmore (tenor), Charles Pott (bass), Ensemble directed by Robert King; CHRISTMAS CONCERT with Derek Nimmo (speaker), Royal Naval College Chapel Choir, conducted by Gordon St John Clarke; MOZART 200TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT: Symphony No.38, Piano Concerto No.20, Symphony No.40/Mozart, with Melvyn Tan (fortepiano), London Classical Players, conducted by Roger Norrington; BACH'S ST JOHN PASSION with Rogers Covey-Crump (Evangelist), Brian Bannatyne-Scott (Christus), Ruth Holton (sop), Charles Brett (alto), Christopher Gillett (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass), The Choir of King's College Chapel, The Brandenburg Consort, conducted by Stephen Cleobury; THE PHILHARMONIA: Fantasy Overture - Romeo and Juliet/Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No.1/Scharwenka, Symphony No.2/Tchaikovsky, with Seta Tanyel (piano), Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Yuri Simonov [52pp, 8.25x11.75; programme notes, texts, translations, biographies with photos; VG] £5

1992 (1 Nov): SIR MALCOLM SARGENT 25th ANNIVERSARY MEMORIAL CONCERT (Royal Festival Hall)
REQUIEM/Verdi; Susan Bullock (sop), Elizabeth Laurence (mezzo), David Rendall (tenor), Matthew Best (bass), Royal Choral Society, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, c:Laszlo Heltay; Royal Gala Concert, in the presence of His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent [36pp; notes, texts, translations, biographies with photos, chorus list; VG] £3

1992-93: MOBIL CONCERT SEASON (Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich) Souvenir Brochure
Lavish Souvenir Booklet, with details of the six Concerts in the 1992-93 Mobil Season: BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Strauss, Mozart, Prokofiev with Kurt Nikkanen (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Davis; OTTONE/Handel, with James Bowman (counter-tenor), Claron McFadden (sop), Michael George (bass), Jennifer Smith (sop), Dominique Visse (counter-tenor), Linda Ormiston (mezzo), Patrick Garland (director), The King's Consort conducted by Robert King; FAMILY CHRISTMAS CONCERT with David Jacobs (reader), Trevor Watson (organ), Royal Naval College Chapel Choir; EUROPEAN COMMUNITY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: Haydn, Shostakovich, Bartok with Robert Cohen (cello), European Community Chamber Orchestra conducted by Eivand Aadland; PETER DONOHOE (piano): Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov; LONDON CHORAL SOCIETY: Roussel, Faure, Warlock, Vaughan Williams with Karl Morgan Daymond (baritone), London Choral Society, New London Orchestra conducted by Ronald Corp [40pp, 8.25x11.75; programme notes, texts, translations, biographies with photos; VG] £5

1992 (9 Apr): A CELEBRATION OF FREEDOM (Blackheath Concert Halls)
In aid of 'Victim Support': Handel, Chopin, Dvorak, Butterworth, Vaughan Williams, Haydn, Gurney, Schubert/Liszt, Brahms, Kreisler, Copland, Elgar, Brubeck, Purcell, with Roberta Alexander (sop), Michael Chance (counter-tenor), Nikolai Demidenko (piano), John Hancorn (bar), Gwynne Howell (bar), Tamsin Little (vln), Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Roger Vignoles (pno), Natalie Wheen (host), Brodsky Quartet, The Blackheath Concert Orchestra, conducted by Philip Sims; in the presence of Terry Waite [28pp, 8.25x11.75; notes, texts, photos, biographies; messages from Terry Waite, John Major, Neil Kinnock, Paddy Ashdown; VG] £4

1993 (27 Mch): TOWARDS THE MILLENNIUM - The Decade 1921-1930 (Royal Festival Hall)
Variations for Orchestra/Schoenberg, Symphony of Psalms/Stravinsky, Glagolitic Mass/Janacek: Faye Robinson (sop), Ameral Gunson (mezzo), John Mitchinson (tenor), Stephen Richardson (bass), Thomas Trotter (organ), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Simon Rattle [24pp; notes, texts, translations, photos; VG] £3

1994 (28 Apr): CITY OF LONDON SINFONIA (Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich)
Copland, Barber, Weill, Porter, Gershwin, Bernstein: Jo Ann Pickens (soprano), City of London Sinfonia, conducted by Richard Hickox [8pp, 8.25x11.75; notes, photographs; VG] £2

1995 (16 Jul): SUMMER GALA CONCERT (Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich)
Overture - The Silken Ladder/Rossini, Cantique de Jean Racine/Faure, Symphony No.40/Mozart, Requiem/John Rutter: Fiona Wight (soloist), Royal Naval College Chapel Orchestra and Choir, conducted by Trevor Watson [8pp, 8.25x11.75; notes, photos and biographies; VG] £2

1995 (13 Jun): A CONCERT FOR 50 YEARS OF PEACE (Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich)
Jager, Holst, Wagner etc.: The Band of Her Majesty's Royal Marines, Plymouth, conducted by Captain J R Perkins; in the presence of Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal [28pp, 8.25x11.75; notes, texts, photographs; minor marks on cover, else VG] £2

1995 (27 Apr): ORCHESTRA OF THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT (Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich)
Concerto - Quis hic/Muffat, Capriccio/Zelenka, Ode - Raise, Raise the Voice/Purcell, Concerto for Violin and Oboe, Coffee Cantata/Bach; with Monika Frimmer (sop), Paul Agnew (tenor), Julian Clarkson (bass-bar), Anthony Robson (oboe), Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin), The Orchestra and Choir of the Age of Enlightenment, conducted by Gustav Leonhardt [8pp, 8.25x11.75; notes, photographs, biographies; VG] £2

1996 (7 Mch): ALFREDO KRAUS Recital (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden)
Alfredo Kraus w.Edelmiro Arnaltes, piano and Asier Polo, 'cello: Scarlatti, Gluck, Elgar, Massenet, Faure, Gounod, Spanish Songs etc. [16pp, 7.25x9.75; notes, translations, biographies, photos; VG] £5

1996 (9 Mch): KATHLEEN BATTLE Recital (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden)
Kathleen Battle w.Cliff Jackson, piano: Handel, Wolf, Liszt, Strauss, Turina, Granados, Traditional [16pp, 7.25x9.75; translations, biographies, photos; VG] £5

1996 (28 Mch): NICOLAI GEDDA Recital (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden)
Nicolai Gedda, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden c:Carlo Rizzi: Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Donizetti, Bizet, Johann Strauss, Lehar [20pp, 7.25x9.75; translations, biographies, photos etc.; VG] £5

1997 (27 Aug): NDR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA HAMBURG (Usher Hall, Edinburgh)
Symphony No.5/Schubert, Symphony No.1/Brahms: NDR Symphony Orchestra Hamburg, conducted by Gunter Wand [40pp; notes, photo, biographies; VG] £2

1998 (16 Oct): THE MESSIAH (Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich)
The Messiah/Handel, Fanfare Felicitas/Cole, Concerto for Two Trumpets/Vivaldi, Brandenburg Concerto No.3/Bach: Claire Pendleton (sop), David Wholey (alto), Peter Sturton (tenor), Peter Hine (bass), Band of Her Majesty's Royal Marines, Plymouth directed by Captain David Cole, Orchestra and Choir of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, conducted by Nicholas Johnson; in the presence of Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal [24pp, 8.25x11.75; notes, texts, colour photography, biographies etc.; VG] £3

1999 (Jan): TAKE JAZZ SERIOUSLY (Royal Festival Hall)
Gershwin, Shostakovich, Bernstein, Prokofiev, Ellington, Bernstein: Kim Criswell (vocalist), London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Wayne Marshall [28pp; notes, photos, biographies; VG] £2

1999 (Feb): MOUNTBATTEN FESTIVAL OF MUSIC (Royal Albert Hall)
Marches/Dunn, Alford etc., Overture - La Belle Helene/Offenbach etc., Big Band Selection, Festive Overture/Shostakovich etc., Marches/Boyce, Elms, Russell: The Massed Bands of Her Majesty's Royal Marines, under the direction of Lieutenant Colonel R A Waterer; introduced by Desmond Carrington [40pp, 8.25x11.75; programme notes, articles, magnificent colour photography throughout, including colour photos and biographies of The Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Lieutenant Colonel Richard Waterer, Captain John Perkins, Captain Peter Rutterford, Lieutenant Peter Best, Lieutenant Philip Watson, Desmond Carrington, Don Lusher; VG] £4

2000s

2000 (27 Mch, 25 Apr, 2 May): MURRAY PERAHIA plays J.S.Bach (Royal Festival Hall)
Murray Perahia, piano, with the Academy of St.Martin in the Fields c:Murray Perahia; Booklet covering three concerts, with insert for 25 April concert: Goldberg Variations, Brandenburg Concertos Nos.1 & 3, Keyboard Concertos Nos.1, 2, 4 & 5, Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, Orchestral Suites Nos.1 & 2, Concerto for Violin and Oboe etc. [24pp, biographies w.photos, notes; VG] £4

2001 (17 Dec): MAGDALENA KOZENA Recital (Wigmore Hall)
BBC Lunchtime Recital: Magdalena Kozena, Malcolm Martineau, piano: Brahms, Ravel, Dvorak, Janacek [2pp+8pp booklet, 8.25x11.75; biographies w.photos, programme notes, translations; VG] £2

2001 (19 Dec): AN EVENING OF GERMAN SONG (Wigmore Hall)
Current and former members of the ENO Jerwood Young Singers Programme: Mary Nelson, Alison Roddy, Claire Weston, Victoria Simmonds, Andrew Rees, Fredrik Strid, Leslie John Flanagan, Leigh Melrose, Toby Stafford-Allen, Barry Martin; w.Wolfram Rieger, piano [24pp, 6.5x9.5; notes, translations, biographies w.photos; minor marks, VG] £4

2002 (2 & 4 Mch): IAN BOSTRIDGE Recital (Wigmore Hall)
Song Recital Series: Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake, piano: Schubert [16pp, 8.25x11.75; biographies w.photos, programme notes, translations; VG] £4

2002 (April): KATHLEEN FERRIER AWARDS 2002 (Wigmore Hall)
Jury: John Shirley-Quirk, Eugene Asti, Nigel Douglas, Valerie Masterson, Natalie Wheen; Competitors: Morag Atchison, Elizabeth Atherton, Amy Black, Frances Bourne, Karen Cargill (eventual joint Winner), Nigel Cassidy, Mark Chaundy, Natalie Clifton-Griffith, Elizabeth Cragg, Doreen Curran, Antonia Cviic, Christopher Dixon, Charlotte Ellett, Marie Elliott, Emma Gane, Owen Gilhooly, Lucie Goodman, Peter Grant, Adam Green, Alexander Grove, Bibi Heal, Sally Johnson, Sian Jones, Natasha Jouhl, Eva Kallberg, Katina Kangaris, Andrew Kennedy, Tamar Kleinberger, Nina Kompare, Jonathan Lemalu (eventual joint Winner), Clint Van Der Linde, Rebecca Von Lipinski, John Lofthouse, Joanne Lunn, Catherine May, Eleanor Meynell, Trine Bastrup Moller, Susan Moore, Emilia O'Connor, Gudrun Olafsdottir, Cecilia Osmond, Stephen Pascoe, Matilda Paulsson, Claire Platt, Elizabeth Poole, Louise Reitberger, Alexandra Rigazzi-Tarling, Anja Rossau, Rebecca Ryan, Claire Surman, Wendy Dawn Thompson, Karin Thyselius, William Townend, Ailish Tynan, Julianne de Villiers (eventual winner of the Song Prize), Maria Vujinovic, Samya Waked, Rebecca Watson, Helen Withers, Annalise Whittlesea, Howard Wong [36pp, 8.25x11.75 w.two duplicated sheets providing details of the Semi-Final (24 April) and the Final (26 April); biographies of the judges w.photos, biographies and photos of each of the competitors with their programmes, biographies of the accompanists, list of former winners, rules of the competition, notes etc.; VG] £5

2002 (18 May): DAWN UPSHAW Recital (Wigmore Hall)
Song Recital Series: Dawn Upshaw, Gilbert Kalish, piano: Wolf, Bartok, Hindemith, Mahler, Musorgsky [16pp, 8.25x11.75; biographies w.photos, programme notes, translations; staples missing, else VG] £3

2002 (22 May): BARBARA BONNEY and MICHAEL SCHADE Recital (Wigmore Hall)
Song Recital Series: Barbara Bonney, Michael Schade, Malcolm Martineau, piano: Schumann, Rossini, Massenet, Lehar [20pp, 8.25x11.75; biographies w.photos, programme notes, translations; one staple missing, else VG] £4

2002 (14 Jul): NEW GENERATION ARTISTS DAY (Wigmore Hall)
Emma Bell (sop), Alice Coote (m-s), Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano), Ilya Gringolts (violin), Karol Szymanowski Quartet, Kungsbacka Piano Trio, Alexander Melnikov (piano), Lawrence Power (viola), Li-Wei Qin (double bass), Simon Trpceski (piano), Ronald Van Spaendonck (clarinet), Ashley Wass (piano); 11.30am - A Morning at the Russian Ballet, 2.30pm - Beethoven in the Afternoon, 5.30pm - Lieder at Teatime, 7.30pm - Soiree a Cinq [24pp, 8.25x11.75; biographies w.photos, programme notes, translations; VG] £3

2003 (6 Feb): FELICITY LOTT and OLAF BAR Recital (Wigmore Hall)
Hugo Wolf Centenary Series: Felicity Lott, Olaf Bar, Malcolm Martineau, piano: Italienisches Liederbuch/Hugo Wolf [16pp, 8.25x11.75; biographies w.photos, programme notes, translations; staples missing, else VG] £3

2003 (11 Mch): A CELEBRATION OF WOMEN (Wigmore Hall)
Haydn, Schubert, Brahms, Berlioz, Schumann, Loewe, Liszt: Sarah Walker (mezzo soprano), Imogen Cooper (piano) [24pp, 8.25x11.75; texts and translations, biographies, photos; VVG++] £4

2003 (27 Mch): ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER Recital (Wigmore Hall)
Song Recital Series: Angelika Kirchschlager, Helmut Deutsch, piano: Schubert, Brahms, Wolf, Duparc [16pp, 8.25x11.75; biographies w.photos, programme notes, translations; staples missing, else VG] £3

2003 (1 Nov): BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERT (Barbican)
Christine Brewer (soprano), BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jukka-Pekka Sarasate: Five Pieces For Orchestra, Op.16/Schoenberg, Four Last Songs/R.Strauss, Scene With Cranes/Sibelius, Symphony No.4/Sibelius [6pp triplefold, 8.25x11.75 plus translation insert; biographies w.photos, programme notes etc.; VG] £3

2003: THE LEEDS CASTLE OPEN AIR CONCERTS (Leeds Castle, Kent) Souvenir Programme
Spitfire Prelude and Fugue/Walton, The Planets/Holst, Va pensiero - Nabucco/Verdi, Thus Spake Zarathustra - prelude/Strauss, 1812 Overture/Tchaikovsky, Pomp and Circumstance March No.1/Elgar etc.: John Suchet (narrator), Frances McCafferty (soloist), Brighton Festival Chorus, Band of the Irish Guards, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Carl Davis [40pp, 8.25x11.75; notes, magnificent colour photography, biographies, map, orchestra list, details of further concerts etc.; a full programme; VG] £4

2003 (April): KATHLEEN FERRIER AWARDS 2003 (Wigmore Hall)
Jury: Sir John Manduell, CBE (Chairman), Anne Howells, Gwynne Howell, CBE, Martin Isepp, Philip Langridge, CBE; Competitors: Vanessa Ashbee, Morag Atchison, Douglas Bowen, Monica Brett-Crowther, Danielle Calder, Marie Chevallier, Sarah Corp, Robert Ian Davis, Anna Dennis, Christopher Dixon, Elizabeth Donovan, Eamonn Dougan, Amanda Echalaz, James Edwards, Ee-Ping, James Elliott, Marie Elliott, Blake Fischer, Elizabeth Franklin-Kitchen, Amy Freston, Angharad Gruffydd Jones, James Harrison, Benjamin Hulett, Sally Johnson, Cerys Jones, Sian Jones, Rebecca Von Lipinski, Ed Lyon, Polly May, Robert Murray (eventual Second Prize Winner), Emilia O'Connor, Nicola Ogborn, Gudrun J.Olafsdottir (eventual winner of the Song Prize), Julie Pasturaud, Heidi Pinder, Elisabeth Poirel, Andrew Radley, Paul Reeves, Louise Reitberger, Joanna Richardson, Julia Riley, Leandros Taliotis, Joanna Thome, Wendy Dawn Thompson (eventual Winner), Serenna Wagner, Thomas Walker, Nicholas Warden [32pp, 8.25x11.75 w.a duplicated sheet (with annotations) providing details of the Semi-Final Auditions (23 April); biographies of the judges w.photos, biographies and photos of each of the competitors with their programmes, biographies of the accompanists, list of former winners, rules of the competition, notes etc.; large photo of Kathleen Ferrier on the back cover; VG] £5

2004 (19 Mch): FLORILEGIUM Concert (Wigmore Hall)
Early Music & Baroque Series - Charpentier 300th Anniversary Celebration Concert Florilegium, Patrizia Kwella (soprano), Timothy Massa (counter-tenor), Andrew Tortise (tenor), Thomas Guthrie (bass) [8pp, 8.25x11.75; biographies w.photos, programme notes, translations; staples missing, else VG] £2

2004 (4 Apr): ANNE SOPHIE VON OTTER Recital (Wigmore Hall)
Song Recital Series: Anne Sophie Von Otter, Bengt Forsberg, piano: Stenhammar, Larsson, Aulin, Wiklund, Rangstrom, Boldemann, Dale, Ferguson, Phillips, Carew [16pp, 8.25x11.75; biographies w.photos, programme notes, translations; staples missing, else VG] £3

2005 (3 Apr): KLEMENS SANDER Recital (Wigmore Hall)
The Richard Tauber Prize Recital: Klemens Sander, baritone (Winner of the 2003 Richard Tauber Prize) with Charles Spencer, piano: Beethoven, Schubert, Frank Martin, Gerald Finzi [12pp, 8.25x11.75; biographies w.photos, programme notes, translations; minor marks on back cover, else VG] £3

2005 (19 May): JENNIFER LARMORE and BRUCE FORD Recital (Queen Elizabeth Hall)
La Rimembranza - Songs and Duets: Jennifer Larmore, Bruce Ford, Antoine Palloc, piano; Donizetti, Gomes, Rossini, Verdi, Gabussi, Benedict, Pacini, Thomas, Belgiojoso, Gounod, Arditi, Mercadante etc. [40pp, 6.5x9.5; programme notes, translations, biographies w.photos; VG] £4

2005 (1 Jun): CAROLE FARLEY Recital (Wigmore Hall)
Carole Farley, Lowell Liebermann, piano, William Bolcom, piano, John Constable, piano, Fabio Zanon, guitar: Songs by Lowell Liebermann, Ned Rorem, William Bolcom, Carlos Guastavino, Ernesto Lecuona [16pp, 8.25x11.75; biographies w.photos, programme notes, translations; VG] £3

2005 (7 June): GUILDHALL GOLD (Wigmore Hall)
Students from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama: Francaix/String Trio, De Falla/Siete canciones populares Espanolas, Prokofiev/Piano Sonata No.7 in Bb op.83, Oscar Colomina i Bosch/Cantus (2005), Brahms/Piano Quartet in G minor op.25 [16pp, 5.5x11.75; programme notes, translations, biographies with photographs; VG] £3

2005 (June): BBC CARDIFF SINGER OF THE WORLD 2005 Souvenir Brochure
Souvenir Brochure for this International Singing Competition; the 2005 competitors were Amanda Echalaz, Andrew Kennedy, Marie-Josee Lord, Quinn Kelsey, Tsvetana Bandalovska, Ivana Dimitrijevic, Nicole Cabell, Sergejs Jegers, Lee Bisset, Hayoung Lee, Mikhail Kolelishvili, Camilla Roberts, Wendy Dawn Thompson, Irina Lungu, Howard Reddy, Liudmila Dudinova, Gustavo Casanova, Ariana Chris, Daria Masiero, Helena Dix, Gaston Rivero, Sune Hjerrild, Patrick Schramm, Kostas Smoriginas, Luis Olivares Sandoval, and Ewa Biegas [76pp, 8.25x11.75 attractive large-size glossy souvenir brochure with inserts; containing competition diary, programme notes for all the concerts, articles, commentary, notes, colour photos and biographies of all 25 singers, the Judging Panel (Anthony Freud, Elly Ameling, Helmut Deutsch, Anne Evans, John Evans, Menno Feenstra, Marilyn Horne, Rene Kollo, Sergei Leiferkus, Brian McMaster), the conductors (Grant Llewellyn, Carlo Rizzi, Raif Weikert), accompanists (Simon Lepper, Phillip Thomas, Llyr Williams), and the Presenters and Experts (including Huw Edwards, Aled Jones, Petroc Trelawny, Edward Seckerson, Michael Chance, Amanda Roocroft, Humphrey Burton, Anna Murray etc.); excellent colour photography throughout; text in both English and Welsh; VG] £8

2005 (25 Sep): SONG RECITAL (Wigmore Hall)
Autumn Song Recitals: Gweneth-Ann Jeffers (soprano), Aoife O'Sullivan (piano); Strauss/Vier Lieder Op.27, Wolf/Mignon Lieder, Mahler/Funf Ruckert Lieder [double-sided sheet 8.25x11.75; biographies, photographs, programme notes etc.; VG] £2

2005 (9 Dec): SAMLING CONCERT (Wigmore Hall)
Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Katherine Manley (soprano), Anna Stephany (mezzo-soprano), Ed Lyon (tenor), Marc Labonnette (baritone), Malcolm Martineau and Simon Over (piano): Spring (Hahn, Grieg, Rachmaninov), Summer (Berg, Brahms, Chaminade), Autumn (Britten, Faure, Butterworth), Winter (Britten, R.Strauss), Scenes and Arias from Cosi fan Tutte, The Turn of the Screw, Mignon, Die Zauberflote, Beatrice and Benedict, and Il Barbiere di Siviglia [16pp, 8.25x11.75; programme, texts and translations, biographies with photographs; VG] £4

2006 (8 March): SONG RECITAL (Wigmore Hall)
Nina Stemme (soprano), Benedicte Haid (piano): Grieg/Six Songs, R.Strauss/Five Leider, Nystroem/Sanger vid havet, Wagner/Wesendonck Leider [28pp, 8.25x11.75; illustrated programme notes, translations, biographies with photographs etc.; VG] £4

2006 (10+11 March): TERESA BERGANZA MASTERCLASSES (Purcell Room)
Park Lane Group: Teresa Berganza with Stephanie Lewis, Caryl Hughes, Eliana Pretorian, Katrina Broderick, Kristin Finnigan, Kishani Jayasinghe [18 A4 duplicated pages; biographies, texts etc.; VG] £4

2006 (June-July): CITY OF LONDON FESTIVAL Souvenir Brochure
Souvenir Brochure with a Diary of Festival Events, and full details of the many recitals and concerts which took place, including Alina Ibragimova (violin), Cedric Tiberghien (piano); Tokyo String Quartet; Catherine Ennis (organ); Gaele Le Roi (soprano), Catherine Cournot (piano); London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Hiromi Omura (soprano), Christopher Maltman (baritone), Tadaaki Otaka (conductor); Artur Pizzaro (piano); Tadao Ando; John Harle (saxophone), Steve Lodder (piano and Keyboards); Toshiko Akiyoshi (piano), Guildhall Jazz Band, Scott Stroman (director); Merima Kljuco (accordion), Claudio Bohorquez (cello); Noriko Ogawa (organ); Matrix Ensemble, Robert Ziegler (conductor); Stephan Loges (baritone), Eugene Asti (piano); Claire Martin (voice), Richard Rodney Bennett (piano); Stan Tracey Orchestra; Endellion String Quartet; Ernst Kovacic (violin), David Owen Norris (piano); Joji Hirota (percussion, shakuhachi, voice), Britten Sinfonia; Tina May Trio; Rikki and her Band; Okeanos; Brodsky Quartet; Gould Piano Trio; Akiko Yamamoto (piano), Quatuor Ebene; Freddy Kempf (piano); Joan Rodgers (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano); BBC Singers, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Marin Alsop (conductor) etc. etc. [64pp, 8.25x11.75 attractive large-size souvenir brochure; details of all the concerts and recitals, various messages and articles, full-colour photography throughout, Free Summer Events, Education, Visual Art, Japan on Film, Walks and Talks, Art Tours, Extensive biographies, map, booking info etc. etc.; VG] £6

2007 (April): KATHLEEN FERRIER AWARDS 2007 Semi-Final and Final Auditions (Wigmore Hall)
Jury: Dame Janet Baker (Chairman), Dr.Sheila Armstrong, Nicholas Riddle, Russell Smythe, Roger Vignoles; Competitors: George Von Bergen, Michelle Foster, Alexander Robin Baker, Anna Leese, John-Colyn Gyeantey, Julian Hubbard, Laura Mitchell (eventual winner of the Song Prize), Benedict Nelson (eventual Second Prize Winner), Katherine Broderick (eventual Winner), Caryl Hughes, Samuel Evans [16pp, 8.25x11.75 w.two inserts, detailing the programme for the Final Auditions, and the eventual winners; biographies of the judges w.photos, biographies and photos of each of the competitors with their programmes, biographies of the accompanists, list of former winners, rules of the competition, notes etc.; VG] £5

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