Prom 26: Barry/Walton/Sibelius, BBC Philharmonic, Ehnes/Storgårds

[Ein Heldenleben]

[QUOTE=Bryn;n1281884]

All well and good as far as 2014 is concerned. However, Proms audio engineering was not an in-house operation in 2011. I forget the name of the location sports specialist employed that year but it was much discussed at the time. Their vans outside the back of the RAH made it clear they were not the BBC's.

I think that’s not the whole story . Radio 3 sound ( both engineering ( the technicians) and operations ( the sound balancers ) was in-house then and still is as far as I know - though there will no doubt be a freelance element . Quite recently a few studio managers have had their retirements announced on air which suggests they are BBC staff ! TV outside broadcast sound was almost certainly done by an outside contractor most of whose staff would have been ex BBC or ITV . If you read the article you can see that there are two separate sound operations at the the Proms - the Radio balance and the TV balance - though there is a great deal of working together inevitably.

[Bryn]

[QUOTE=Ein Heldenleben;n1281888]

I think that’s not the whole story . Radio 3 sound ( both engineering ( the technicians) and operations ( the sound balancers ) was in-house then and still is as far as I know - though there will no doubt be a freelance element . Quite recently a few studio managers have had their retirements announced on air which suggests they are BBC staff ! TV outside broadcast sound was almost certainly done by an outside contractor most of whose staff would have been ex BBC or ITV . If you read the article you can see that there are two separate sound operations at the the Proms - the Radio balance and the TV balance - though there is a great deal of working together inevitably.

Yes, I was already well aware of the separate Radio and TV operations. However, the Brabbins performance of 'The Gothic' was radio only. Roger Wright acknowledged the outsourcing at the time.

[Barbirollians]

I enjoyed the Sibelius a great deal especially the finale which can sound rather overblown in some hands . Ehnes remains a violinist I am not on the same wave length with - I admired it but it seemed rather lightweight and lacking in passion . The Barry would have had Kafka calling for extra earplugs.