BBC Proms 2009

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Benji

April 16, 2009, 02:21:36 PM
The listings are up for the 2009 season of the BBC Proms and it is looking absolutely wonderful.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2009/whatson/

There is a lot of Purcel, Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn for their various anniversaries but they're not really my cup of tea. What i'm excited about is the abundance of little-heard British music this year, including Moeran's gorgeous symphony and Holst's Choral Symphony.

There also seems to be an emphasis on the more colourful 20th century European music, including Bartók, Chabrier, De Falla, Respighi, Martinů and more Ravel and Stravinsky than you can shake a stick at. In fact, Stravinsky features twice as heavily in the programming as Beethoven, which bodes well I feel.

My must-see concert will have to be this one:

    * Ligeti Atmosphères (9 mins)
    * Mahler Kindertotenlieder (27 mins)
    * Schoenberg Five Orchestral Pieces, Op.16 (19 mins)
    * R Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra (34 mins)

    * Matthias Goerne baritone
    * Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
    * Jonathan Nott conductor

I was repeating just the other day how much I want to hear Atmosphères live, and for it to be on the same programme as Zarathustra. Outstanding!  ;D

sound67

#1
April 17, 2009, 05:45:21 AM
I'm sorry, but Jonathan Nott is a crashing bore.
"Vivaldi didn't compose 500 concertos. He composed the same concerto 500 times" - Igor Stravinsky

"Mozart is a menace to musical progress, a relic of rituals that were losing relevance in his own time and are meaningless to ours." - Norman Lebrecht

techniquest

#2
April 17, 2009, 06:00:39 AM
A few interesting pieces here and there that can be picked out of the standard Proms fayre. I was a little disappointed that the Respighi Rome trilogy is spread over 3 Proms (I know they're not that popular but it's so rare to have them played - and all 3 together makes for such a great concert).
That being said, Prom 31 - Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto 1, Lutoslawski Concerto for Orchestra and Respighi's Roman Festivals, looks like a real good fun, noisy Prom!
Also Prom 46 with a premier work, Rachmaninovs Paganini Variations and Shostakovich Symphony No.11 should be entertaining.
Great to see Arnolds "Grand Grand Overture" and Ketelby's "In a Monastary Garden" in the Last Night line-up.

sound67

#3
April 17, 2009, 06:16:33 AM
I like this one:

Thu 23
19:30 - 22.05

Prom 9

Moeran Symphony in G minor
Finzi Grand Fantasia and Toccata
Elgar Symphony No.2 in E flat major

Leon McCawley piano

BBC Philharmonic Vassily Sinaisky conductor
"Vivaldi didn't compose 500 concertos. He composed the same concerto 500 times" - Igor Stravinsky

"Mozart is a menace to musical progress, a relic of rituals that were losing relevance in his own time and are meaningless to ours." - Norman Lebrecht

DavidRoss

#4
April 17, 2009, 06:20:33 AM
Quote from: Benji on April 16, 2009, 02:21:36 PM
My must-see concert will have to be this one:

    * Ligeti Atmosphères (9 mins)
    * Mahler Kindertotenlieder (27 mins)
    * Schoenberg Five Orchestral Pieces, Op.16 (19 mins)
    * R Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra (34 mins)

    * Matthias Goerne baritone
    * Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
    * Jonathan Nott conductor

I was repeating just the other day how much I want to hear Atmosphères live, and for it to be on the same programme as Zarathustra. Outstanding!  ;D
And Goerne should be splendid in the dead kiddies songs.
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

vandermolen

#5
April 17, 2009, 06:31:10 AM
I shall be there for the Moeran, if I am in the country - never heard this live. Shostakovich Symphony No 11 is always great in concert. No Vaughan Williams, as far as I can see, apart from the ubiquitous and tedious (IMHO) Wasps Overture - but they did him proud last year due to the 50th anniversary of his death. Not much Bruckner either.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

sound67

#6
April 17, 2009, 10:23:12 AM
That same concert also includes RVW's beautiful "Five Mystical Songs".

Tom

BTW: Last year I was there for his 4th (Tortelier) and 8th (Elder) symphonies.  :)
"Vivaldi didn't compose 500 concertos. He composed the same concerto 500 times" - Igor Stravinsky

"Mozart is a menace to musical progress, a relic of rituals that were losing relevance in his own time and are meaningless to ours." - Norman Lebrecht

vandermolen

#7
April 17, 2009, 12:45:36 PM
Quote from: sound67 on April 17, 2009, 10:23:12 AM
That same concert also includes RVW's beautiful "Five Mystical Songs".

Tom

BTW: Last year I was there for his 4th (Tortelier) and 8th (Elder) symphonies.  :)


Thanks Tom.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Kuhlau

#8
April 17, 2009, 01:27:17 PM
I'm glad Benji's pleased with this year's programmes. I'm not. It wasn't until I'd read through the listings for weeks 7 & 8 that I spotted a couple of items to pique my interest: Prom 60 and Prom 70. I want to attend the latter, but I'll be unable. So it looks like an evening with Argerich and Dutoit ... if I can get tickets.

FK
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