Neil McGowan
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« on: April 19, 2018, 07:45:46 am » |
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The program for the BBC Proms concerts in London (and broadcast on the internet) has been announced for 2018: https://www.bbc.co.uk/promsIs there anything you will be booking for, travelling to, bookmarking, or tuning in for?
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Dundonnell
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« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2018, 10:09:26 pm » |
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London is rather too far for me to travel to attend a concert - although I made an exception for Havergal Brian's Gothic some years ago- and I don't tend to listen to concerts on the radio given my large cd collection. I am glad to see that the Proms will feature Parry's 5th symphony and also Bernstein's 1st.
I am however certainly planning to hear the RVW Sea Symphony at the Edinburgh Festival and although not a Mahlerian the prospect of the Symphony No.8 is pretty mouth-watering.
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Neil McGowan
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« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2018, 10:53:17 am » |
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In the past I've made trips to London, where I was able to arrange the date of a trip I had to make anyhow with the period of 1-2 Proms.
But when glancing through the Proms prospectus this year, nothing leapt out at me as a 'must', I have to say. Very humdrum and 'safe' programming, performed by 'the usual suspects'.
The Proms is a festival - a chance to direct its high-end budgets at 'never-to-be-repeated' programs with exceptional performers. I'd heard they were going to do The Trojans this year - but it turns out to be only 'excerpts from'. (Two bleeding chunks, 10 minutes and 7 minutes respectively - I wonder why they bothered?). 'Harold in Italy' must turn up twice-weekly at the South Bank - hardly 'festival' material at all.
As you say, with the almost universal availability of nearly any music you'd want on cd or internet, it requires a special 'zing' in the line-up to merit a 300-quid airfare to London these days. Robin Ticciati conducting Pelleas and Melisande - with a line-up of British soloists and an Austrian Melisande - is not, for me, even worth the tube fare to South Ken, sad to say ::)
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Alex Bozman
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« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2018, 07:52:51 pm » |
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Had the Sibelius 7 and Zimmermann Symphony in One Movement had a more interesting coupling than Schubert choral pieces,might have been tempted.
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