The Proms 2007

[Mark]

For anyone interested, here's the second half of yesterday's Prom No. 11. (I forgot to record the first half, but will try to catch the repeat broadcast later this week).

Prom 11 (2nd half)

Eight files totalling about 43 minutes, and including Faure's Cantique de Jean Racine and his Requiem. All tagged, with album art.

Enjoy.

EDIT: Should point out that there's no applause anywhere in these edited files. The audience seemed reluctant to clap for a long time after each performance, so I wasn't going to waste space by leaving in several seconds of coughing before they showed some appreciation.

[Lethevich]

mind you, we could have witnessed the birth of a work of art to be hailed for the years or centuries to come...

If it does I'll abandon everything other than opera - everything else is tainted and dirty

[Steve]

For anyone interested, here's the second half of yesterday's Prom No. 11. (I forgot to record the first half, but will try to catch the repeat broadcast later this week).

Prom 11 (2nd half)

Eight files totalling about 43 minutes, and including Faure's Cantique de Jean Racine and his Requiem. All tagged, with album art.

Enjoy.

EDIT: Should point out that there's no applause anywhere in these edited files. The audience seemed reluctant to clap for a long time after each performance, so I wasn't going to waste space by leaving in several seconds of coughing before they showed some appreciation.

Mark, What did you make of 12? I've yet to hear it.

[Papy Oli]

If it does I'll abandon everything other than opera - everything else is tainted and dirty

Ok, that's that work dealt with 

If any of you has watched the Beethoven 7th that followed last night, what did you think of it ? I for one really enjoyed it.

[Steve]

Ok, that's that work dealt with 

If any of you has watched the Beethoven 7th that followed last night, what did you think of it ? I for one really enjoyed it.

I too saw the 7th - not a bad performance at all. Lackluster finale, though. 

[Mark]

Mark, What did you make of 12? I've yet to hear it.

Missed Prom 12.

[Lethevich]

If any of you has watched the Beethoven 7th that followed last night, what did you think of it ? I for one really enjoyed it.

It's heresy, but I don't really like the piece. Was a lively (and surprisingly light) performance, and the conductor seemed a little hyperactive at times

[Mark]

For anyone interested, here are links to MP3 files of the Bruckner Seventh Symphony and Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nurenburg Overture (encore) performed by Kurt Masur and the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Orchestre National de France in last Wednesday's Prom 7 (which I attended ):

Bruckner - Symphony 7 - 1st Mvt

Bruckner - Symphony 7 - 2nd Mvt

Bruckner - Symphony 7 - 3rd Mvt

Bruckner - Symphony 7 - 4th Mvt

Wagner - Overture: Die Meistersingers von Nurenburg


I'll upload the Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings which opened the concert once I've captured it again next week - I'm waiting for the repeat broadcast on Radio 3; my PVR f**ked up the first broadcast.

Enjoy.

For those interested, here at last is the first half of Prom 7:

Prom 7 - 1st Half

Enjoy.

[Steve]

Thanks again, Mark 

[AnthonyAthletic]

Mark,

This is better than BBC's 'On Demand' 

Superb & Cheers!!

[Mark]

No worries, Steve.

I would've posted Prom 4, but the original broadcast came out badly (I live in a sometimes poor reception area), and I missed the repeat broadcast. I should get Prom 6 up soon, followed by the first half of Prom 11.

[Mark]

Mark,

This is better than BBC's 'On Demand' 

Superb & Cheers!!

Takes ages to do, though. Tonight's lot meant wading through four hours of repeat broadcast to chop out and clean up 30 minutes of material.

[Bonehelm]

For anyone interested, here are links to MP3 files of the Bruckner Seventh Symphony and Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nurenburg Overture (encore) performed by Kurt Masur and the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Orchestre National de France in last Wednesday's Prom 7 (which I attended ):

Bruckner - Symphony 7 - 1st Mvt

Bruckner - Symphony 7 - 2nd Mvt

Bruckner - Symphony 7 - 3rd Mvt

Bruckner - Symphony 7 - 4th Mvt

Wagner - Overture: Die Meistersingers von Nurenburg


I'll upload the Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings which opened the concert once I've captured it again next week - I'm waiting for the repeat broadcast on Radio 3; my PVR f**ked up the first broadcast.

Enjoy.

Thanks Mark, but what are the bit rates on those? THX 

[Mark]

Thanks Mark, but what are the bit rates on those? THX 

To make uploading easier for me, I use 192kbps CBR MP3.

[Maciek]

Mark, will you be posting today's Macbeth too? (That's Prom 15.)

[Mark]

Mark, will you be posting today's Macbeth too? (That's Prom 15.)

Sadly, no - I missed it.

But I will be posting a truly remarkable Prom 6 in about a couple of hours' time. If you love renaissance music, you MUST download this.

[Mark]

A significant Prom indeed, the one I've just uploaded. Prom 6 contains a performance of Striggio's mass setting, 'Ecco Si Beato Giorno' ... the work's first performance in modern times. The manuscripts lay unfound for something like four and half centuries, until in 1987, Davitt Moroney found a reference to them which led him on an eventually successful but long-winded hunt (it took him 20 years, on and off, to find the originals). The work is for 40 and 60 parts, and Moroney himself conducts the combined forces of the Tallis Scholars and BBC Singers in this fabulous work. There are eight parts (according to the BBC's own site - Wikipedia maintains the work essentially revolves around five parts), but I counted nine, if you include the short 'Benedictus' (track 9). For more on the work, see here Ecco Si Beato Giorno, or here Ecco Si Beato Giorno.

This Prom also features works by Lassus, and 'Spem in alium', Thomas Tallis' own 40-part work which, it's thought, was written in response to a challenge from the Fourth Duke of Norfolk to match Striggio's monumental mass setting. The concert begins with another, shorter Striggio work, and everything you need to know can be found here: BBC Prom 6

Everything is properly tagged (as ever 0:)), but please be careful if listening through headphones - there's a small data break at 4:16 in track 3 which 'squeals' very sharply for a split second. I can't completely eradicate these irritating breaks, because my reception equipment isn't capable of holding onto a consistently strong signal.

Anyway, here are the links you need:

Prom 6 - Tracks 1-10

Prom 6 - Tracks 11-13

[Steve]

It's always great news when Mark responds on this thread 

I'm looking forward to that mass. Might give it a listen tonight....

[Mark]

It's always great news when Mark responds on this thread 

I'm looking forward to that mass. Might give it a listen tonight....

You'll get no more now till maybe Friday or Saturday. I'm limiting this exercise to the stuff I want from this year's season, simply because the conversion process takes so long.

[Mark]

For anyone interested, here's the second half of yesterday's Prom No. 11. (I forgot to record the first half, but will try to catch the repeat broadcast later this week).

Prom 11 (2nd half)

Eight files totalling about 43 minutes, and including Faure's Cantique de Jean Racine and his Requiem. All tagged, with album art.

Enjoy.

EDIT: Should point out that there's no applause anywhere in these edited files. The audience seemed reluctant to clap for a long time after each performance, so I wasn't going to waste space by leaving in several seconds of coughing before they showed some appreciation.

For those interested, a link to the three files which comprise the first half of Prom 11. You've got Debussy's Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Faune, and Isserlis doing Saint-Saens' First Cello Concerto (track 2 is mvt I, track 3 is mvts II & III):

Prom 11 (1st half)

For those who want to keep the tagging straight, you'll need to retag the track numbers on everything from the second half of the concert. I allowed an extra track when I did those files, forgetting that the second two movements of the Saint-Saens would end up being cut as one movement, hence altering the numbering (if you see what I mean?).

Up in a few days: Prom 19.

Enjoy