Compile your own choice of music for a Promenade Concert

[hedgehog]

Perotinus/Leoninus:
Viderunt omnes

Wagemans:
Viderunt omnes

INTERVAL

Louis Andriessen:
De volharding

Stravinsky:
Monumentum pro Gesualdo di Venosa ad CD annum

Nice one Roehre!

[ahinton]

While we're on French programmes:

Boulez: Pli selon pli

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Roussel: Symphony No. 3



Chausson: Poème
Dutilleux: l'Arbre des Songes

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Magnard: Symphony No. 4



and here's another, of works by elderly French composers sandwiching one by a young one:


le Flem: Préludes
Schmitt: Symphony No. 2

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Boulanger (Lili): Psaume XXIV
le Flem: Symphony No. 4

[Hornspieler]

Nice one Roehre!

Originally Posted by Roehre
Perotinus/Leoninus:
Viderunt omnes

Wagemans:
Viderunt omnes

INTERVAL

Louis Andriessen:
De volharding

Stravinsky:
Monumentum pro Gesualdo di Venosa ad CD annum
Nice one Roehre!

But all these suggested programmes are supposed to be for a Henry Wood Promenade Concert.

Do you really believe that an empty Albert Hall would improve the acoustics?

HS

[kea]

How about a programme of all nine Mahler symphonies, played simultaneously? That would certainly make good use of the Albert Hall acoustics.

[ahinton]

But all these suggested programmes are supposed to be for a Henry Wood Promenade Concert.

Do you really believe that an empty Albert Hall would improve the acoustics?

To the extent that an "empty" Albert Hall would mean not only no audience but also no performers, one could indeed argue that it would, pace Richard Barrett's reservations about the place which I and many others share (and never try to say "Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt missed it in a Messerschmitt" after a couple of large G&Ts).

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Do you really believe that an empty Albert Hall would improve the acoustics?

Sorry, HS - you should have made your specifications clearer: "Compile your own choice of Music that I would enjoy for a Promenade Concert", perhaps?

But, in that case - what would go in the programmes after the first week?

[ahinton]

How about a programme of all nine Mahler symphonies, played simultaneously? That would certainly make good use of the Albert Hall acoustics.

The problem with that is that they're not of identical length so there'll be places where less than all would be (un)heard simultaneously and one where only the third would be audible.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Or someone could do to Mahler what someone once did to the Beethoven Symphonies - adjust them with electrickery so that they all take the same length of time and then play them simultaneously. (The Beethoven took about half-an-hour: remarkable how the individual parts were still identifiable. Maybe the Mahlers should be stretched to six hours, to avoid plagiarism accusations?)

[kea]

The problem with that is that they're not of identical length so there'll be places where less than all would be (un)heard simultaneously and one where only the third would be audible.

It's all right, we'll just instruct the bloke conducting the Third to get it over with in 80 minutes or less. Speed up that final Adagio to a Vivace, maybe. People don't have time for much more anyway these days.

[Hornspieler]

Sorry, HS - you should have made your specifications clearer: "Compile your own choice of Music that I would enjoy for a Promenade Concert", perhaps?

But, in that case - what would go in the programmes after the first week?

Change that to that you would enjoy in the title and I would agree with you.

It would give us all a very good indication of our fellow message boarders' preferences in respect of musical enjoyment (and, by omission, musical disinterest)

HS

[kea]

Are we supposed to be compiling Proms Concerts that we think other people would enjoy?

Very well... Gustavo Dudamel, conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Saint-Saëns's B minor violin concerto (soloist: André Rieu), Daniel Jones's 3rd symphony, Ferneyhough's Plötzlichkeit and John Williams's Star Wars Suite. On period instruments. That should sell out in no time!

[pastoralguy]

[QUOTE=kea;430942]Are we supposed to be compiling Proms Concerts that we think other people would enjoy?




Not sure I'd travel to London to hear it but I'd definitely listen to the radio broadcast...

[EdgeleyRob]

Listening to some Stanford organ music earlier I had an idea for a Prom.


Fantasia and Toccata, Op 57.

Requiem, Op 63.

[MrGongGong]

Grisey: Les Espaces Acoustiques, Ensemble Intercontemporaine, Diego Masson.

Perfect

[Tevot]

Hello there,

This combination struck me earlier on this afternoon (China time) listening on Youtube to a performace of Nanie conducted by Claudio Abbado.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxpgC332ey4

Here goes :-

Liszt: From the Cradle to the Grave
Ives: Symphony No.4

..............Interval......................

Brahms: Nanie
Rachmaninov: The Bells

Pitching it might be a tad difficult - "Come and experience the Hereafter at the RAH"

Best Wishes,

Tevot