Prom 14: Tüür / Beethoven / Bruckner, BBC SO, Y. Lim / P. Järvi

[Pulcinella]

Yes, welcome Meadowfield.

Haven’t been to the ROH for a few years now, and this surprises me.

Aren’t they listening to the music and watching the performance on stage?

What’s more important to do than that?

This would be at the RAH (Proms) not the ROH (Opera), Mario; but your point is just as valid!

[LMcD]

This would be at the RAH (Proms) not the ROH (Opera), Mario; but your point is just as valid!

People - well, some people - seem to dread the prospect of not being in continuous contact with the world around them, whereas others. myself included, are happy to be out of reach from time to time.

[Ein Heldenleben]

This would be at the RAH (Proms) not the ROH (Opera), Mario; but your point is just as valid!

Texting , along with chatting , has definitely been creeping in at the Royal opera house during the overture of a conventional opera. If people want to text they should at least have the decency to buy all four tickets in the Grand Tier or Balcony boxes. Mind you the sight lines are so bad in some of the latter I can see why some might reach for the screen.

[Mario]

Honestly, I cannot believe this discussion.

Have things gotten so bad?

Have people lost the art of concentration?

[richardfinegold]

Honestly, I cannot believe this discussion.

Have things gotten so bad?

Have people lost the art of concentration?

Short answer-yes. Dare I say that Asian concert goers seem more prone to text during concerts? I applaud them for their love of Classical Music but I have noticed that they seem as a group more unable to put down their phones

[Ein Heldenleben]

Short answer-yes. Dare I say that Asian concert goers seem more prone to text during concerts? I applaud them for their love of Classical Music but I have noticed that they seem as a group more unable to put down their phones

You dare say it . But I also had a Japanese lady next to me at the Royal Opera House who’d flown all the way from Tokyo to see Netrebko in Macbeth who became exasperated at the Russians in front of us who took photos of Netrebko and Lucic in the coronation scene.

Only capped by the Asian tourists who bizarrely took FLASH photos during a Philharmonia performance of Metamorphosen at the QEH with Ashkenazy conducting. All Vladimir could do was shrug and chuckle .

[Barbirollians]

Back on topic - I do urge those underwhelmed by this account of Beethoven 5 to look out the account Lim gave with Pappano and the Verbier FO on You Tube only days before this concert .

Lim sounds in better form as does the piano and he plays with a great deal of subtlety and nuance somewhat missing from the Prom . The conducting of Pappano and the playing of the younh Festival Orchestra are in a different league to that of the BBCSO/Jarvi - better air conditioning perhaps . It is a terrific , exciting performance .