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Prom 1: The First Night, BBC SO/BBC SC/BBC Singers, S. Bevan/I. Kanneh-Mason/Chan
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Originally posted by edashtav View PostProm1
Handel's Musick for the Royal Firework's is grand Occasional Outdoor piece. I've love Hervé Niquet's fresh-air take on the work and I wanted the concert's organisers or the trumpeters to have blown the roof open just like Centre Court.
I'm a avid Bruckner fan and have heard or sung most of his choral works. Psalm 150, a festival piece, was new to me. I now know why. Its stratospheric demands on sopranos- did I hear a top choral C? - make for a strenuous nine minutes. I've loved this Proms' performance
I enjoyed Ben Nobuto's HALELUJAH SIM ,a smash hit in the hall and with me. I adored its playfulness and light-footed wit. Michael Torke has worked with words and phrases chopped into syllables and then reconstructed in unusual order. BEN plays with that conceit by requiring his choir to respond in real time to instructions from a speaker. Using electronics the piece sounds and is a unforgettable jewel in the music of this young century. Were I still a choral conductor, I'd do anything necessary to programme this 8work with my choir.
Isata Kanneh-Mason one seventh of Liverpool's Holy Family, joioned the orchestra, bringing her calling card: Clara Schumann's only Concerto in three disparate but continuous movements.
No mistresspiece but a work that shows what might have been had it been born in a world of female equality. Isata is a compelling pianist equally at home in thin and thickly written music -- she is no shrinking violet but has an assertive personality; she can shrink her tone to suit the music's demands.
Gershwin/ Grainger The Man I Love was her well-chosen encore - sultry music for a sweaty Albert Hall.
I've commented on Beethoven's 5th earlier in response to a thoughtful analysis by Heldenleben.
With the exception of the Murder of Beethoven's Fifth by the Orient Express, this was the best of first nights and I reckon that I have experienced 50.
Schumann well played but not worth Isata’s time and trouble and talent . She played the Grainger Gershwin magnificently.
Already said my piece on Hallelujah
Agree re the Beethoven 5 obvs
strange there are so few other comments . I wonder if the early start time is a big scheduling error ?
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Originally posted by edashtav View PostProm1
Handel's Musick for the Royal Firework's is grand Occasional Outdoor piece. I've love Hervé Niquet's fresh-air take on the work and I wanted the concert's organisers or the trumpeters to have blown the roof open just like Centre Court.
I'm a avid Bruckner fan and have heard or sung most of his choral works. Psalm 150, a festival piece, was new to me. I now know why. Its stratospheric demands on sopranos- did I hear a top choral C? - make for a strenuous nine minutes. I've loved this Proms' performance
I enjoyed Ben Nobuto's HALELUJAH SIM ,a smash hit in the hall and with me. I adored its playfulness and light-footed wit. Michael Torke has worked with words and phrases chopped into syllables and then reconstructed in unusual order. BEN plays with that conceit by requiring his choir to respond in real time to instructions from a speaker. Using electronics the piece sounds and is a unforgettable jewel in the music of this young century. Were I still a choral conductor, I'd do anything necessary to programme this 8work with my choir.
Isata Kanneh-Mason one seventh of Liverpool's Holy Family, joioned the orchestra, bringing her calling card: Clara Schumann's only Concerto in three disparate but continuous movements.
No mistresspiece but a work that shows what might have been had it been born in a world of female equality. Isata is a compelling pianist equally at home in thin and thickly written music -- she is no shrinking violet but has an assertive personality; she can shrink her tone to suit the music's demands.
Gershwin/ Grainger The Man I Love was her well-chosen encore - sultry music for a sweaty Albert Hall.
I've commented on Beethoven's 5th earlier in response to a thoughtful analysis by Heldenleben.
With the exception of the Murder of Beethoven's Fifth by the Orient Express, this was the best of first nights and I reckon that I have experienced 50.
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Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View PostPossibly the worst first night I’ve ever heard.“
I turned on the radio just before 9pm expecting to hear some of the Prom and it took some time to figure that I wasn’t listening to CFM.
Then I looked at the schedule for tonight, and then for tomorrow …..
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...., has anyone made a list of the BBC Commissions over the last 50 years and indicated which of them sank without trace after their first and only performance? .../QUOTE]
I wonder how many performances there have been of Anna Meredith's Five Telegrams since the First Night of the 2018 Proms.
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Originally posted by Dave2002 View PostWell now you have the second night to look forward to!
I turned on the radio just before 9pm expecting to hear some of the Prom and it took some time to figure that I wasn’t listening to CFM.
Then I looked at the schedule for tonight, and then for tomorrow …..
Hopefully there will also be less hysteria in the presentation.
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[QUOTE=LMcD;n1312729]Originally posted by seabright View Post...., has anyone made a list of the BBC Commissions over the last 50 years and indicated which of them sank without trace after their first and only performance? .../QUOTE]
I wonder how many performances there have been of Anna Meredith's Five Telegrams since the First Night of the 2018 Proms.
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Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post
Agree re Bruckner - yes it was a top C .
Schumann well played but not worth Isata’s time and trouble and talent . She played the Grainger Gershwin magnificently.
Already said my piece on Hallelujah
Agree re the Beethoven 5 obvs
strange there are so few other comments . I wonder if the early start time is a big scheduling error ?
Few comments also due to a change of emphasis on For3 from praise on its offer to a crowd calling 'NO' to its recent dumbing down.
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Originally posted by edashtav View Post
Yes, I feel the early start time for the FIRST PROM was deeply unfortunate. I was foxed by the Concerto until this morning when Clara was ubiquitous on the "ads'.
Few comments also due to a change of emphasis on For3 from praise on its offer to a crowd calling 'NO' to its recent dumbing down.
I just think there’s an expectation that the first night will be an event.
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Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post
Maybe but the “dumbing down” isn’t that recent is it ?
I just think there’s an expectation that the first night will be an event.
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[QUOTE=LMcD;n1312729]Originally posted by seabright View Post...., has anyone made a list of the BBC Commissions over the last 50 years and indicated which of them sank without trace after their first and only performance? .../QUOTE]
I wonder how many performances there have been of Anna Meredith's Five Telegrams since the First Night of the 2018 Proms.
I know it was subsequently performed at the Edinburgh International Festival
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Originally posted by edashtav View Post
Yes, I take your point:dumbing down dates before 2024 but its impact has been more overt and all pervasive this calendar year
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If only the BBC would stop telling us what to think about music, and tried telling us how to think about it, I think I could cope with its output rather better.
oh well, perhaps the Mahler will be good.
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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[QUOTE=Ein Heldenleben;n1312733]Originally posted by LMcD View Post
Good point - another massively oversold talent .
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