Dennis Noble at the Proms 1927 - 1958
At the New Queen’s Hall primarily, with
orchestra conducted by Henry Wood, later by Malcolm Sargent
and others, except where piano accompaniment is involved.
Tuesday, 23 August 1927
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro [The Marriage of Figaro] -‘Non
più andrai’ [Now your days of philandering are
over]
Schubert: Der Erlkönig [Le Roi des Aulnes; The Earl
King], D 328 (pno. Frederick Kiddle)
William Garnet James: Australian Bush Songs - No. 6 The
Stockrider’s Song (pno. Kiddle)
Saturday, 25 August 1928
Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera - ‘Alzati!...Eri tu
macciavi!’ [Arise!... It was you who stained]
Martin Shaw: Conjuration (pno. Berkeley Mason) Proms Première
Martin Shaw: Annabel Lee (pno. Berkeley Mason)
Tuesday, 3 September 1929
Tschaikovsky: Romances Op. 6 - No. 6 Net, tol’ko
tot, kto znal [Nay, though my heart should break; None but the
lonely heart]
Granville Bantock: Songs from the Chinese Poets Set 1-
No. 1 The Old Fisherman of the Mists and Waters/ No. 2 The Ghost
Road (pno. Berkeley Mason)
Tschaikovsky: Romances Op. 47 -No. 6 Den’ li tsarit?
[Does the day reign?; Only for Thee; Whether by day] (orchestrated
by Henry Wood).
Monday 3 June 1930
Wagner: Die Walküre WWV 86b - No. 36 War es so schmählich
[Brünnhilde’s appeal to Wotan] / No.37 Weil für
dich im Auge / No. 38 So tatest du / No. 39a Und das ich ihm
in Stücken / No. 39b Nicht streb’, o Maid / No. 40
Leb’ wohl [Wotan’s Abschied] [Wotan’s Farewell
/ No. 41 Der Augen leuchtendes Paar / No. 42 Loge, hör!
/ No. 43 Feuerzauber [Magic Fire Music] with Isobel Baillie
(Brünnhilde, Dennis Noble (Wotan) & Hallé Orchestra
conducted by Hamilton Harty.
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg WWV 90 -
No. 23b Was duftet doch der Flieder [Hans Sachs’ (Flieder)
monologue / No. 36 Wahn! Wahn! Uberhal Wahn! [Hans Sachs’
(Wotan) monologue] with Hallé Orchestra conducted by
Hamilton Harty
Tuesday, 9 September 1930
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia- ‘Largo al factotum
della città
Delius: Violet [Das Veilchen] (pno. Berkeley Mason]
Delius: Songs from The Norwegian - No. 5 Minstrel (pno.
Berkeley Mason]
Saturday, 1 October 1930
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Largo al factotum della
città
Arnold Bax: I heard a soldier (pno. Berkeley Mason) Proms Première
Saturday, 7 August 1937
Verdi: La Traviata - Di Provenza il mar
Tuesday, 16 August 1938
Tschaikovsky: Romances, Op. 38 - No. 1 Serenada Don-Zhuana
(orch. Henry Wood) [Don Juan’s Serenade]
Tschaikovsky: Romances Op. 47 - No. 5 Blagoslavlyayu
vas, lesa [I bless you, forests; Pilgrim’s Song ‘My
blessing fall’ [pno. Berkeley Mason]
Tuesday, 13 September 1938
Handel: The Resurrection HWV 47 - ‘O voi dell’
Erebo’
Charles Villiers Stanford: Songs of the Sea Op. 91 with
BBC Symphony Chorus and BBC Choral Society conducted by Leslie
Woodgate.
Saturday, 2 September 1939
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia - Largo al factotum
della città
Saturday 2 August 1941 (w. London Symphony
conducted by Basil Cameron)
Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci - Si, puo? (Prologue)
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia - Largo al factotum
della città
Saturday, 15 August 1942
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor (Choral) w. Muriel Brunskill,
contralto, Eva Turner, soprano, Dennis Noble, baritone, Parry
Jones, tenor, Alexandra Choir and BBC Symphony conducted by
Henry Wood.
Friday, 31 August 1944
Beethoven: Fantasia in C minor (Choral Fantasia). Op.
80 w. Muriel Brunskill, contralto, Isobel Baillie, soprano,
Dennis Noble, baritone, Parry Jones, tenor, Bradbridge White,
tenor, Kate Winter, soprano and Adele Verne, piano w. Alexandra
Choir and BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Adrian Boult.
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 Symphony in D minor (Choral), Muriel
Brunskill (contralto), Isobel Baillie, soprano, Dennis Noble,
baritone, Parry Jones, tenor w BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony
Chorus, National Chorus, BBC Chorus and BBC Choral Society,
conducted by Adrian Boult.
Thursday, 26 July 1945
Delius: Appalachia w. London Symphony Orchestra, National
Chorus, BBC Chorus, BBC Choral Society, conducted by Basil Cameron.
Tuesday, 6 August 1946
Wagner: Das Rheingold - No. 1 Prelude/ No. 2 Weia! Waga!
Woge, du Welle Scene 1/ No. 3 He he! Ihr nicker! Scene 1/ No.
4 Garstig glatter glitschriger Glimmer! Scene 1 /No. 5 Lugt,
Schwestern Scene 1/ No. 6a Der Schwüles Gedünst schwebt
in der Luft Scene 4 / No. 38 Zur Burg führt die Brücke
Scene 4 / No. 39 Abdendich strahlt Scene 4 / No. 40 Ihrem Ende
Scene 4 / No. 41 Rheingold! Rheingold! Scene 4 /Entry of the
Gods into Valhalla (orchestral version) Scene 4 with Gladys
Ripley (Fricka), Laelia Finneberg (Woglinde ), Dennis Noble,
(Alberich), Emelie Hooke (Wellgunde), Tom Williams (Wotan),
Bradbridge White (Froh/Loge), Edith Furmedge (Flosshilde), Frederick
Harvey). The London Symphony conducted by Basil Cameron.
Wednesday, 14 August 1946
Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera - ‘Alzati! …
Eri tu che macchiavi’ [Arise!…It was you who stained]
with London Symphony conducted by Constant Lambert.
Wednesday, 18 September 1946
William Walton: Belshazzar’s Feast with BBC Symphony
Chorus, National Chorus, BBC Chorus, BBC Choral Society conducted
by Adrian Boult.
Tuesday, 26 August1947
William Walton: Belshazzar’s Feast with BBC Symphony
Chorus, National Chorus, BBC Chorus, BBC Choral Society, conducted
by William Walton
Saturday, 17 September 1949
Charles Villiers Stanford: Songs of the Sea, Op. 91 with BBC
Symphony Chorus, National Chorus, BBC Chorus, BBC Choral Society;
conducted by Adrian Boult.
Thursday, 3 August 1950
Donizetti: La Favorita - ‘Ma de’ malvagi
invan…Vien, Leonora, a piedi tuoi’ with London Symphony,
conducted by Basil Cameron.
Thursday, 13 September 1951
William Walton: Belshazzar’s Feast with BBC Symphony
Chorus, National Chorus, BBC Chorus, BBC Choral Society, conducted
by William Walton.
Verdi: Aida - Finale Act 2, Scene 2 with Amy Shuard (Aida),
Dennis Noble (Amonasro), James Johnston (Radames), Howell Glynne
(Ramfis/King) with BBC Symphony Orchestra & the Royal Choral
Society, conducted by Malcolm Sargent.
Wednesday, 1 September 1954
Verdi: Aida Act 2, Scene 2 with Amy Shuard (Aida), Dennis
Noble (Amonasro), Webster Booth (Radames), Janet Howe (Amneris),
Hervey Alan (Ramfis/King) with BBC Symphony Orchestra &
Royal Choral Society, conducted by Malcolm Sargent.
Monday, 13 August 1956
William Walton: Belshazzar’s Feast with BBC Symphony
Orchestra, BBC Chorus, BBC Symphony Chorus, National Chorus,
BBC and Royal Choral Societies, conducted by Malcolm Sargent.
Wednesday, 31 July 1957
William Walton:Belshazzar’s Feast with BBC Symphony
Orchestra, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC and Royal Choral
Societies, conducted by Malcolm
Sargent.
Monday, 28 July 1958
William Walton: Belshazzar’s Feast with BBC Symphony
Orchestra, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC and Royal Choral
Societies, conducted by Malcolm Sargent.
Note: Data from the BBC Proms Archives