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 |