George Hurst’s concert programmes from 1958 to 2004 are provided here in a list format, season by season. This is to allow for ease of browsing, and for an at-a-glance view. The listings are downloadable, and for the time being are only searchable by clicking Ctrl+F to trigger your browser’s in-built search function.
Like the Concert Database page, this part of the site is still under development, with only the 1960-61 season currently available.
| September 1960 | |
| 5: RAH/BBCSO/Proms | |
| Overture Tancredi | Rossini |
| Symphony 99 | Haydn |
| (1st half of Sir Malcolm Sargent’s concert) | |
| 8: Manchester, BBC Northern | |
| Overture Impresario | Mozart |
| Symphony no 1 | Beethoven |
| Scherzo Capriccioso | Dvorak |
| Suite no 1 “Gayaneh” | Khatchaturian |
| 10: Manchester, BBC Northern | |
| Prelude & Liebestod | Wagner |
| Piano Concerto no 2 | Rawsthorne |
| (Colin Horsely) | |
| Symphony no 6, Pathetique | Tchaikovsky |
| 11: Manchester, BBC Northern | |
| Symphony no 38 “Prague” | Mozart |
| Piano Concerto no 1 | Rawsthorne |
| (Valerie Tryon) | |
| Prelude a l’apres-midi | Debussy |
| Pictures | Mussorgsky/Ravel |
| 15: Manchester, BBC Northern | |
| Overture “Il Seraglio” | Mozart |
| Symphony no 7 | Dvorak |
| Suite no 1 “Gayaneh” | Khatchaturian |
| 16: Manchester, BBC Northern | |
| Overture Colas Breugnon | Kabalevsky |
| Six Poems of Baudelaire | PamelaHarrison |
| Tenor: Wilfrid Brown | |
| Symphony no 4 | Beethoven |
| 23: Manchester, BBC Northern | |
| Tragic Overture | Brahms |
| Classical Symphony | Prokofiev |
| Suite Pelleas & Melisande | Faure |
| Scherzo Capriccioso | Dvorak |
| 24: Manchester, BBC Northern | |
| Symphonic Variations | Dvorak |
| Tone Poem “Tapiola” | Sibelius |
| Symphony no 1 | Brahms |
| 26: Manchester, BBC Northern | |
| Sinfonia for strings in B minor | Vivaldi |
| Symphony no 5 | Schubert |
| Two Aubades | Lalo |
| Overture Carnival | Dvorak |
| 27: Manchester, BBC Northern | |
| Prelude a l’apres-midi | Debussy |
| Pictures | Muss/Ravel |
| October 1960 | |
| 4: Manchester, BBC Northern | |
| Overture Coriolan | Beethoven |
| Violin Concerto | Tchaikovsky |
| (Campoli) | |
| La Mer | Debussy |
| 6: Manchester, BBC Northern | |
| Symphony no 104 | Haydn |
| Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini | Rachmaninov |
| Symphony no 4 | Brahms |
| 7: Manchester, BBC Northern | |
| Academic Festival Overture | Brahms |
| Symphony no 99 | Haydn |
| Pavane | Faure |
| Capriccio Italienne | Tchaikovsky |
| 10: Manchester, BBC Northern | |
| Festival Overture | Rubbra |
| Piano Concerto no 1 | Field |
| (Frank Merrick) | |
| Symphony no 30 | Mozart |
| 14: Manchester, BBC Northern | |
| Overture Donna Diana | Reznicek |
| From Bohemian Woods & Fields | Smetana |
| Symphony no 5 “New World” | Dvorak |
| 16: Manchester, BBC Northern | |
| Overture “The Fair Melusine” | Mendelssohn |
| Violin Concerto | Beethoven |
| (Ralph Holmes) | |
| Symphony no 2 | Arnold |
| 21: Manchester, BBC Northern | |
| Overture “Der Freischutz” | Weber |
| Nocturnes “Nuages & Fetes” | Debussy |
| Enigma Variations | Elgar |
| 26: Manchester, BBC Northern | |
| Overture “Street Corner” | Rawsthorne |
| Siegfried Idyll | Wagner |
| Suite Provencale | Milhaud |
| 28: RAH, LPO | |
| Overture Die Meistersingers | Wagner |
| Piano Concerto no 3 | Beethoven |
| (Peter Katin – Myra Hess indisposed) | |
| Symphony no 6 “Pathetique” | Tchaikovsky |
| 31: Manchester, BBC Northern | |
| Tragic Overture | Brahms |
| Symphony no 29 | Mozart |
| Siegfried Idyll | Wagner |
| Scherzo & March | Prokofiev |
| “Love of Three Oranges” | |
| November 1960 | |
| 1: Manchester, BBC Northern | |
| Tragic Overture | Brahms |
| Swan of Tuonela | Sibelius |
| Don Juan | Strauss |
| Symphony no 5 | VaughanWilliams |
| 4: RAH, LPO | |
| Overture Die Meistersingers | Wagner |
| Piano Concerto no 3 | Beethoven |
| (Peter Katin – Myra Hess indisposed) | |
| Symphony no 6 “Pathetique” | Tchaikovsky |
| 6: Manchester, BBC Northern | |
| Overture “Portsmouth Point” | Walton |
| Symphonic Poem “Orpheus” | Liszt |
| Piano Concerto no 5 | Beethoven |
| (York Bowen) | |
| La Mer | Debussy |
| 11: Bolton, Halle | |
| Overture Egmont | Beethoven |
| Symphony no 4 | Schumann |
| Suite L’Arlesienne | Bizet |
| Symphony no 9 “New World” | Dvorak |
| 12: Sheffield, Halle | |
| Overture Fingal’s Cave | Mendelssohn |
| Piano Concerto | Schumann |
| (Malcom Binns) | |
| Suite L’Arlesienne | Bizet |
| Symphony no 9 “New World” | Dvorak |
| 13: Manchester, Halle | |
| Overture “Manfred” | Schumann |
| Piano Concerto | Schumann |
| (Malcolm Binns) | |
| Cello Concerto | Schumann |
| (Rohan de Saram) | |
| Symphony no 4 | Schumann |
| 18: Manchester, BBC Northern | |
| Overture “Colas Breugnon” | Kabalevsky |
| Symphony no 1 | Shostakovitch |
| Scherzo & March | Prokofiev |
| “Love of Three Oranges” | |
| Suite “Gayaneh” | Khatchaturian |
| 19: Manchester, BBC Northern | |
| Overture “Cockaigne” | Elgar |
| Symphony no 9 “New World” | Dvorak |
| Prelude Act III, Dance of Apprentices, Entry of the Masters Wagner | |
| Die Meistersingers | |
| Forest Murmers (Siegfried) | Wagner |
| Ride of the Valkyries | Wagner |
| 21: Ditto | |
| Overture “Alfonso & Estrella” | Schubert |
| Linz Symphony | Mozart |
| Two Aquarelles | Delius |
| Prelude Act III, Dance of Apprentices, Entry of the Masters Wagner | |
| Die Meistersinger | |
| Forest Murmers (Siegfried) | Wagner |
| Ride of the Valkyries | Wagner |
| 22: Ditto | |
| Grieg extracts | |
| 25: Ditto | |
| Overture “Prometheus” | Beethoven |
| Suite “La Boutique Fantasque” | Rossini/Respighi |
| Haffner Symphony | Mozart |
| Symphonic Metamorphosis etc | Hindemith |
| 26: Ditto | |
| Overture “Roman Carnival” | Berlioz |
| Violin Concerto | Szymanowsky |
| Romeo & Juliet | Tchaikovsky |
| Interval | |
| Symphony no 5 | Beethoven |
| 29: Ditto | |
| Comedy Overture | WilfridJosephs |
| Linz Symphony | Mozart |
| Variations on a Nursey Tune | Dohnanyi |
| (Alan Schiller) | |
| December 1960 | |
| 6: RFH/ Philharmonia: Brahms Programme | |
| Tragic Overture | |
| Piano Concerto no 2 (Sergio Varella Cid) | |
| Symphony no 4 | |
| 9: Manchester, BBC Northern | |
| Overture “Tancredi” | Rossini |
| Symphonic Poem “Orpheus” | Liszt |
| Symphony no 7 | Beethoven |
| 10: Ditto | |
| Overture “William Tell” | Rossini |
| Symphonic Poem “Orpheus” | Liszt |
| Piano Concerto no 2 | SaintSaens |
| (Kendall Taylor) | |
| Symphony no 2 | Sibelius |
| 13: Ditto | |
| Symphony no 99 | Haydn |
| Rococo Variations | Tchaikovsky |
| Symphonic Metamorphosis | Hindemith |
| 15: Ditto | |
| Overture “Portsmouth Point” | Walton |
| Two Portraits for Violin | Bartok |
| (Susan Rozsa) | |
| Music from “Peer Gynt” | Saevernd |
| Concert Music for Brass & Strings | Hindemith |
| 16: Ditto | |
| Symphony no 34 | Mozart |
| Suite Provencale | Milhaud |
| Adagio for strings | Barber |
| Overture “Die Meistersinger” | Wagner |
| 21: Ditto | |
| Overture “Alphonse & Estrella” | Schubert |
| Christmas Concerto | Corelli |
| Dream Pantomime | Humperdinck |
| Nutcracker Suite | Tchaikovsky |
| 23: Ditto | |
| Prelude “Khovanschina” | Mussorgsky |
| Viola Concerto | DavidWooldridge |
| (Herbert Downes, conducted by the composer) | |
| Italian Symphony | Mendelssohn |
| 29: Ditto | |
| Overture “Le Corsair” | Berlioz |
| Night on a Bare Mountain | Mussorgsky |
| Romeo & Juliet | Tchaikovsky |
| 6 | |
| 31: Ditto: Beethoven Programme | |
| Overture “Leonora” no 3 | |
| Piano Concerto no 2 (Phyllis Sellick) | |
| Symphony no 7 | |
| January 1961 | |
| 2: Ditto | |
| Overture “Le Corsair” | Berlioz |
| Violin Concerto | Mendelssohn |
| (Jennifer Nuttall) | |
| “The Quiet Tarn”; “The Green Wind” | Butterworth |
| Introduction & Wedding March from “Le Coq d’Or” Rimsky-Korsakov | |
| 6: Ditto | |
| Overture “Le Corsair” | Berlioz |
| Jupiter Symphony | Mozart |
| Essay no 1 for orchestra | Barber |
| Introduction & Wedding March from “Le Coq d’Or” Rimsky-Korsakov | |
| 18: RFH/LPO: Beethoven Programme | |
| Overture Leonora no 3 | |
| Emperor Concerto (Shulamith Shafir) | |
| Interval | |
| Overture Coriolan | |
| Symphony no 7 | |
| 20: Manchester, BBC Northern | |
| Overture “Euryanthe” | Weber |
| Symphony no 86 | Haydn |
| Two Aubades | Lalo |
| Polovtsian Dances | Borodin |
| 24: Bolton, BBC Northern | |
| Overture “Leonora” no 2 | Beethoven |
| Violin Concerto in A minor | Bach |
| Pictures | Mussorgsky |
| 26: Ditto | |
| Overture “Primavera Romana” | Leighton |
| Flute Concerto | Mozart |
| (Geoffrey Gilbert) | |
| Unfinished Symphony | Schubert |
| 27: Ditto | |
| Suite no 3 | Bach |
| Variations on St Antoni Chorale | Brahms |
| Four Dance Episodes from “Rodeo” | Copland |
| 7 | |
| 28: Ditto | |
| Symphony no 86 | Haydn |
| Piano Concerto | Schumann |
| (Stefan Askenase) | |
| Death & Transfiguration | Strauss |
| 30: Ditto | |
| Symphony no 35 “Haffner” | Mozart |
| Cello Concerto | Dvorak |
| (Andre Navarra) | |
| February 1961 | |
| 1: Ditto | |
| Alborada del Gracioso | Ravel |
| The Enchanted lake | Liadov |
| Death & Transfiguration | Strauss |
| 3: Ditto | |
| Overture “King Stephen” | Beethoven |
| Symphony no 5 “Reformation” | Mendelssohn |
| The Enchanted lake | Liadov |
| Alborada del Gracioso | Ravel |
| 7: Ditto | |
| Tragic Overture | Brahms |
| Symphonie Fantastique | Berlioz |
| 8: Ditto | |
| Overture “Primavera Romana” | Leighton |
| Four Sea Interludes | Britten |
| Prelude & Liebestod | Wagner |
| 10: Ditto | |
| Overture “Impresario” | Cimarosa |
| Arias: “O Isis & Osiris”; “Within these sacred Bowers” Mozart | |
| from “Magic Flute” | |
| Four Sea Interludes | Britten |
| Boris’s Monologue from Boris Godounov Mussorgsky | |
| Prelude & Liebestod | Wagner |
| 13: Ditto | |
| Tarn Hows, A Cumbrian Rhapsody | MauriceJohnstone |
| Two-piano Concerto in E flat | Mozart |
| (Geoffrey Buckley & Keith Swallow) | |
| Classical Symphony | Prokofiev |
| 14: Ditto | |
| Symphony no 34 | Mozart |
| Adagio for strings | Barber |
| Scherzo Fantasque for piano & orchestra Bloch | |
| (Iris Loveridge) | |
| Overture “Tannhauser” | Wagner |
| 23: Paris: French Radio Orchestra | |
| Symphony no 4 | Beethoven |
| Piano Concerto no 19 (K439) | Mozart |
| (Reine Gianoli) | |
| Symphonic Metamorphosis | Hindemith |
| March 1961 | |
| 2: Manchester, Halle | |
| Double Violin Concerto | Bach |
| (David & Igor Oistrakh) | |
| Violin Concerto | Beethoven |
| (Igor Oistrakh) | |
| Violin Concerto | Brahms |
| (David Oistrakh) | |
| 3: Manchester, BBC Northern | |
| Russian Easter Festival Overture | Rimsky-Korsakov |
| Roumanian Folk Dances | Bartok |
| Symphony no 5 | Beethoven |
| 15: Bristol, BSO | |
| Overture Coriolan | Beethoven |
| Symphony no 3 | Brahms |
| Russian Easter Festival Overture | Rimsky-Korsakov |
| Piano Concerto | Khatchaturian |
| (Mindru Katz) | |
| 16: Bournemouth, BSO | |
| As above | |
| 23: Cranwell, BBC Northern | |
| Overture Benvenuto Cellini | Berlioz |
| Suite Carmen | Bizet |
| Symphonic Metamorphosis | Hindemith |
| 24: Sheffield, BBCNO | |
| Overture Benvenuto Cellini | Berlioz |
| Prelude Act III Traviata | Verdi |
| Piano Concerto no 2 | Chopin |
| (Shura Cherkassky) | |
| Symphonic Metamorphosis | Hindemith |
| 26: Manchester, BBCNO | |
| Overture Odtaa | DoreenCarwither |
| Piano Concerto no 2 | Rachmaninov |
| Suite Carmen | Bizet |
| 27: Ditto | |
| Overture Odtaa | DoreenCarwither |
| Symphony no 96 (Miracle) | Haydn |
| Praeludium | Jarnefelt |
| Capriccio Espagnole | Rimsky-Korsakov |
| 29: RFH, LPO | |
| Beethoven Programme | |
| Overture Leonora no 3 | |
| Emperor Concerto (Shulamith Shafir) | |
| Overture Coriolan | |
| Symphony no 7 | |
| April 1961 | |
| 6: Copenhagen, Danish State Radio Orchestra | |
| Symphony no 4 | Brahms |
| Violin Concerto | Benjamin Frankel |
| Pines of Rome | Respighi |
| 11: Liverpool, BBCNO (augmented by section of RLPO) | |
| Symphony no 96 (Miracle) | Haydn |
| Double Concerto | Brahms |
| (Ralph Holmes, Rohan da Saram) | |
| Sinfonia da Requiem | Britten |
| Pines of Rome | Respighi |
| 15: Manchester, BBCNO | |
| Scherzo Capriccioso | Dvorak |
| Variations on a Nursey Tune | Dohnanyi |
| (Joseph Weingarten) | |
| Sinfonia da Requiem | Britten |
| Symphony no 5 | Beethoven |
| 16: Ditto | |
| Scherzo Capriccioso | Dvorak |
| Cello Concerto | Schumann |
| (Vivien Joseph) | |
| Pines of Rome | Respighi |
| 17: Manchester, BBCNO | |
| Overture King Stephen | Beethoven |
| Violin Concerto | Mendelssohn |
| (Mary Nemet) | |
| Scherzo Capriccioso | Dvorak |
| 19: Ditto | |
| Symphony no 96 (Miracle) | Haydn |
| Music for strings percussion & celeste | Bartok |
| 21: Ditto | |
| Sarabande, Gigue, Badinerie | Corelli(arrArbos) |
| The Oak & the Ash | MauriceJohnstone |
| Symphony no 1 “Spring” | Schumann |
| 23: Ditto | |
| Overture “King Stephen” | Beethoven |
| Nocturnes “Nuages” & “Fetes” | Debussy |
| Piano Concerto | Grieg |
| (Iris Loveridge) | |
| 26: Ditto | |
| Suite “L’Arlesienne” | Bizet |
| Poeme de L’Amour et de La Mer | Chausson |
| (mezzo- Marina de Gabarain) | |
| Alborada del Grazioso | Ravel |
| 27: Ditto | |
| Overture “King Stephen” | Beethoven |
| Nocturnes “Nuages” & “Fetes” | Debussy |
| Symphony no 1 “Spring” | Schumann |
| May 1961 | |
| 3: Ditto | |
| Overture “Consecration of the House” | Beethoven |
| Symphony no 31 “Paris” | Mozart |
| Nocturnes “Nuages” & “Fetes” | Debussy |
| Siegfried’s Rhine Journey (arr Bowden) | Wagner |
| (Gotterdammerung) | |
| 4: Ditto | |
| Processional Overture | ArnoldCooke |
| Symphony no 34 | Mozart |
| Siegfried’s Rhine Journey (arr Bowden) | Wagner |
| 5: Ditto | |
| Russian Easter Festival Overture | Rimsky-Korsakov |
| Piano Concerto no 1 | Liszt |
| (Kendall Taylor) | |
| Symphony no 1 “Spring” | Schumann |
| 7: Ditto | |
| Overture “Consecration of the House” | Beethoven |
| Two-piano concerto in E Flat | Mozart |
| (Geoffrey Buckley & Keith Swallow) | |
| Russian Easter Festival Overture | Rimsky-Korsakov |
| 10: Kendal, BBCNO & Festival Chorus | |
| Symphony no 34 | Mozart |
| Psalm 100 | VaughanWilliams |
| Cello Concerto | Elgar |
| (Paul Tortelier) | |
| Chandos Anthem no. 9 | Handel |
| 11: Ditto | |
| Overture “Consecration of the House” | Beethoven |
| Cantata no.11 “Praise our God” | Bach |
| Frau Musica | Hindemith |
| Symphony no 4 “Italian” | Mendelssohn |
| Polovstian Dances | Borodin |
| 13: Kendal, Westmorland Orchestra; & Festival Chorus) | |
| Messiah | Handel |
| Margaret Lane, Sybil Michelow, Kenneth Bowen, John Holmes | |
| 31: RFH; LPO | |
| Overture “Ruslan & Ludmilla” | Glinka |
| Waltz from “Serenade for Strings” | Tchaikovsky |
| Piano Concerto | Tchaikovsky |
| (Julius Katchen) | |
| Scheherezade | Rimsky-Korsakov |
| June 1961 | |
| 7: Oporto, Portugal, Oporto Symphony Orchestra | |
| Overture “Coriolan” | Beethoven |
| Cello Concerto | Elgar |
| (Maria de Macedo) | |
| Violin Concerto | Tchaikovsky |
| (Varoujian Kodijian) | |
| Piano Concerto no 1 | Brahms |
| (Sergio Varella Cid) | |
| 15: Ditto | |
| 20: Manchester, BBCNO | |
| Overture “Roman Carnival” | Berlioz |
| Piano Concerto no 2 | Rachmaninov |
| The Pines of Rome | Repighi |
| 21: Manchester, BBCNO | |
| Overture “Semiramide” | Rossini |
| Piano Concerto no 1 | Shostakovitch |
| Symphony no 4 “Tragic” | Schubert |
| 22: Manchester, BBCNO | |
| Overture “The Impresario” | Mozart |
| Piano Concerto no 1 | Shostakovitch |
| Symphony no 4 “Tragic” | Schubert |
| 26: Katowice, Poland (Polish Radio Orchestra) | |
| Symphony no 3 | Brahms |
| Suite no 2, “Daphnis & Chloe” | Ravel |
| July 1961 | |
| 1: Katowice, Poland (Polish Radio Orchestra) | |
| Symphony no 4 | Beethoven |
| Nuages & Fetes | Debussy |
| Overture “Colas Breugnon” | Kabalevsky |
| 7: Katowice, Poland (Polish Radio Orchestra) | |
| Overture “Marriage of Figaro” | Mozart |
| Piano Concerto no 4 | Saint-Saens |
| (Boleslaw Woytowicz) | |
| Symphony no 1 | Walton |
| 11: Manchester (BBCNO) | |
| Overture “Fingal’s Cave) | Mendelssohn |
| Symphony no 32 | Mozart |
| Piano Concerto no 1 | Liszt |
| (Gordon Watson) | |
| Polovtsian Dances | Borodin |
| 12: Manchester (BBCNO: pre-recording for July 15th) | |
| Overture “Don Giovanni” | Mozart |
| Violin Concerto no 1 | Paganini |
| Symphony no 4 | Schubert |
| Suite Provencale | Milhaud |
| 13: Borodin Biography | |
| Scherzo (Symphony no 2) | |
| Symphony no 1 (excerpts) | |
| Ballet “Mlada” (excerpt) | |
| Galitsky’s Aria (Prince Igor) – Forbes Robinson | |
| Ballad “The Sleeping Princess) – Felicity Harrison | |
| Polovtsian Dances | |
| The Steppes of Central Asia | |
| 14: Manchester (BBCNO) | |
| Overture “Le Corsair” | Berlioz |
| Carnival Daix for Piano and Orchestra | Milhaud |
| Pavane for a Dead Princess | Ravel |
| Concertino for piano and orchestra | Francaix |
| (Wilfred Parry) | |
| Suite “L’Arlesienne” | Bizet |
| 15: Ditto (Pre-recording for July 16) | |
| 18: Rochdale (BBCNO) | |
| Symphony no 32 | Mozart |
| Prelude & Liebestod | Wagner |
| La Mer | Debussy |
| 19: Manchester (BBCNO) | |
| Overture “La Forza del Destino” | Verdi |
| Serenade for Strings | Tchaikovsky |
| Symphony no 3 | Brahms |
| 25: Manchester (BBCNO) | |
| Overture “Oberon” | Weber |
| Symphony no 86 | Haydn |
| Prelude & Liebestod | Wagner |
| 26: Manchester (BBCNO) | |
| Kamarinskaya | Glinka |
| Dance Suite | BernardStevens |
| Symphony no 2 | Beethoven |
| 28: Buxton (BBCNO) | |
| Overture “Cockaigne” | Elgar |
| Scherzo Capriccioso | Dvorak |
| Symphony no 5 | Tchaikovsky |
| 29: Manchester (BBCNO) | |
| Overture “Prince Igor” | Borodin |
| Violin Concerto | Dvorak |
| (Erich Gruenberg) | |
| Symphony no 101 “Clock | Haydn |
| 30: Manchester (BBCNO) | |
| Overture “The Marriage of Figaro” | Mozart |
| Violin Concerto | Dvorak |
| (Erich Gruenberg) | |
| Suite Provencale | Milhaud |
| August 1961 | |
| 2: Manchester (BBCNO, Pre-recording for Aug 19) | |
| Overture “Die Meistersinger” | Wagner |
| Ballet Suite “Les Petits Riens” | Mozart |
| Prelude a L’apres-midi d’un Faune” | Debussy |
| Symphony no 4 | Dvorak |
| 3: Manchester (BBCNO) | |
| Overture “Egmont” | Beethoven |
| Laudamus Te (Mass in C Minor) | Mozart |
| (Felicity Harrison) | |
| Prelude a L’apres-midi d’in Faune | Debussy |
| “O Mio Fernando” from “La Favorita” | Donizetti |
| (Felicity Harrison) | |
| Overture “Die Meistersinger” | Wagner |
| 16: Royal Albert Hall Proms (BBCNO) | |
| Overture “La Forza del Destino” | Verdi |
| Violin Concerto no 1 | Bruch |
| (Ralph Holmes) | |
| Divertimento for Strings | Milner |
| Nuages & Fetes | Debussy |
| Symphony no 5 | Tchaikovsky |