BBC Proms

listener · April 20, 2012, 01:04:41 AM

The season has been announced. Here's the website for those able to consider attending (there's The Trojans, all 9 Beethoven Symphonies, and John Cage)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms

Opus106 · April 20, 2012, 01:15:45 AM

Hey, Daniel: I bet you've already booked a ticket for Chailly's M6!

Prom 68

Then Cameron Carpenter's grandest challenge yet: the 'Syncretic Prelude and Fugue' proceeds from the 'ultimate' chaconne to an astonishing transformation of the finale of Mahler's Fifth, demonstrating its own links with Bachian practice.

Intriguing.

knight66 · April 20, 2012, 07:27:43 AM

Getting to or staying in London over this time will be a trial. I think I will pretty much opt out this year. However, I have to be around to book tickets for a friend who will be on a ship somewhere or other the day booking opens.

I say The Trojans the last time they were performed at the Proms in two separate concerts.....which I thought was a swizz. Must put it in the diary to listen to live.

Mike

vandermolen · April 20, 2012, 08:59:13 AM

The Btitish premiere of Langgaard's 11th Symphony (all 5 minutes of it) is featured.

I will be interested in the all Vaughan Williams concert, Prokofiev Symphony 6, Bruckner Symphony 9 Shostakovich Symphony 10 and Sibelius's 3rd and 6th symphonies in the same concert. Also Howells's wonderful 'Hymnus Paradisi' with Elgar Symphony No 1.

knight66 · April 20, 2012, 09:35:34 AM

It seems odd to me that at least a couple of concerts end with an overture. Is this some kind of new trend I wonder?

Mike

albedo · April 22, 2012, 03:37:19 AM

Does anyone know if past Proms are recorded / available for sale?

I am looking for Slatkin's 2001 Last Night

I swear it was available on cd or dvd but now i can't seem to find it anywhere. Did i imagine it?

Polednice · April 22, 2012, 05:38:47 AM

Quote from: albedo on April 22, 2012, 03:37:19 AM
Does anyone know if past Proms are recorded / available for sale?

I am looking for Slatkin's 2001 Last Night

I swear it was available on cd or dvd but now i can't seem to find it anywhere. Did i imagine it?

I haven't often seen Proms performances recorded for sale except on rare occasions - they are broadcast on radio and TV while the season is running, but I wouldn't know how to get hold of old performances.

The programming looks interesting this year - it certainly seems as though they've gone for a wider spread of music with less emphasis on the big names, though their celebration of Cage's centenary is dubious given that they've lumped all of it into just one concert which is unlikely to attract anyone but Cage converts already.

I'm personally interested in seeing Bruckner's 9th live for the first time with Haitink, and also the concert that features Mozart's Clarinet Concerto and Neilsen's 5th along with a couple of others.

madaboutmahler · April 22, 2012, 11:30:41 AM

Quote from: Opus106 on April 20, 2012, 01:15:45 AM
Hey, Daniel: I bet you've already booked a ticket for Chailly's M6!

I certainly would love to go to that one.

The others I am particularly interested in are the BPO/Rattle evening (Ligeti Atmospheres, Wagner Lohengrin Prelude 1, Sibelius 4, Debussy Jeux and Ravel D+C Suite no.2), the Vaughan Williams 4, 5 and 6 evening (we should make it a GMG meeting!) and the VPO/Haitink in Strauss' Alpensinfonie.

A great season! Need to confirm with my dad which ones we are booking. But it will probably be the ones mentioned above, if any of you are considering those, shall we all meet up? It would be fun to finally attend a GMG meeting!!!

Mountain Goat · July 01, 2012, 04:11:56 PM

Quote from: madaboutmahler on April 22, 2012, 11:30:41 AMVaughan Williams 4, 5 and 6 evening (we should make it a GMG meeting!)

Just got a ticket to the VW symphony marathon myself, I rarely see any of them on concert programmes so 3 of the best in one evening is too good an opportunity to miss! Also going to the Berlioz Requiem (booked just in time, 5 minutes later it was sold out) and Les Troyens.

eyeresist · July 01, 2012, 08:51:15 PM

I notice they are doing Langgaard's Symphony No. 11 this year - all 5 minutes of it!

Note also the UK premiere of Norgard's 7th, in a program with Sibelius 3 and 6.

mahler10th · July 19, 2012, 08:56:05 AM

Quite looking forward to the Barenboim / Beethoven cycle. Starts tomorrow night (Friday). I am most interested in the performance of the 9th (27th of this month, Prom 18) as it concludes on the opening day of the London Olympics - I'm sure this lot will bring the Albert Hall walls down...

Anna Samuil soprano
Waltraud Meier mezzo-soprano
Peter Seiffert tenor
René Pape bass
National Youth Choir of Great Britain
West–Eastern Divan Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim conductor

Opus106 · July 19, 2012, 09:26:58 AM

Saturday: AoF!

vandermolen · July 19, 2012, 02:41:02 PM

I'll try and make it to the Vaughan Williams concert.

cjvinthechair · July 23, 2012, 09:41:34 AM

At risk of repeating post just placed in 'Concerts looking forward to', so v. briefly - am going to all RAH concerts in week Aug 6-12; 4 beautiful choral evenings amongst them.
One or two folk mentioning 'meeting up'. never entirely sure if it's wise to challenge one's pre-conceptions of fellow enthusiasts met on a site, but nonetheless does seem like such an opportunity, if only for a 5 min. drink.
Anyone going to be around those days & fancying a swift half....?

mahler10th · April 24, 2014, 02:54:09 PM

BBC Proms have been announced for this Summer 2014

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

vandermolen · April 27, 2014, 08:03:34 AM

Great to see Alwyn's First Symphony, making an appearance - must try to get to that. Also Walton Symphony 1, one of my favourite 20th Century symphonies.

Bruckner is God · May 02, 2014, 02:01:20 AM

This year I am doing a festival tour. I am visiting Edinburgh, Munich, Salzburgh and London and I am going to one or two concerts in each city. I love the late summer festivals.

BBC Proms

eyeresist