Proms 2024

[edashtav]

I may be wrong here but I think you’ll find it’s “available on BBC Sounds till October 14th.”
the joke is wearing thin…

[teamsaint]

Rachel Flynn reporting from the Royal Albert Hall:

"I caught up with David Pickard before his final Last Night as Director of the BBC Proms. He’s stepping down this year after his ninth season.

"One of the main agendas throughout his tenure was to see a broader range of people both on the stage and in the audience, he tells me.

"As well as taking the Proms outside of London and promoting non-classical artists, he’s introduced relaxed concerts - where the audience is free to make involuntary noise."



'The boundaries of music are slightly breaking down' seems an understatement for 'the floodgates are opening'. Climate change?

Aren’t we always free to make involuntary noise ? Surely it is the voluntary stuff that needs self policing ?

[alywin]

• Bavarian RSO Rattle Bruckner 5th

Erm, it wasn't the 5th that the BRSO were doing ...

[LMcD]

[QUOTE=smittims;n1318138]David Pickard's wanting to see 'a broader range of people' shows, I think, that he thinks this is more important than playing better music. But I realise it's irrelevant for me to demand more (well, at least some ) Brian , Rawsthorne, Rainier and Cooke at the Proms when I can listen to them from my collection of recordings, as can any YouTube or Spotify subsciber. The Proms really aren't about that any more. But they do seem to lack a focus, a style, that they used to have. There was no doubt what the Proms were about 100 years ago, but today with Bruckner 8 and Florence and the Machine on different nights it's difficult to say . [/QUOTE]

Why not have them both on the same night? ' That would be truly inclusive - 'buy one set of fans, get one free'.

[edashtav]

Erm, it wasn't the 5th that the BRSO were doing ...

Thanks, always. My typo: now corrected. I was half thinking of Petrenko!. Sir Simon was in AB huntin' territory #4.

[AuntDaisy]

On Twitter, BBC Radio 3 are asking us to vote for our favourite...
Sadly, a string of expletives seems to be missing from the choices

[smittims]

I've always disliked polls where you aren't really allowed to choose your favourite,only one of the very short list they've already restricted you to. Always they pretend that you have yoiur say, but of course you don't. I wouldn't choose any of these four for a short list of my favourite Proms this year.

[AuntDaisy]

I've always disliked polls where you aren't really allowed to choose your favourite,only one of the very short list they've already restricted you to. Always they pretend that you have yoiur say, but of course you don't. I wouldn't choose any of these four for a short list of my favourite Proms this year.

11 hours to go and an impressive 159 votes, roughly one every 5 minutes. So much for "customer" engagement

[LMcD]

I've always disliked polls where you aren't really allowed to choose your favourite,only one of the very short list they've already restricted you to. Always they pretend that you have yoiur say, but of course you don't. I wouldn't choose any of these four for a short list of my favourite Proms this year.

A feeling familiar to Building a Library reviewers?

[oddoneout]

I've always disliked polls where you aren't really allowed to choose your favourite,only one of the very short list they've already restricted you to. Always they pretend that you have yoiur say, but of course you don't. I wouldn't choose any of these four for a short list of my favourite Proms this year.

Perhaps they should do a form of dynamic pricing where you are suddenly faced with a much expanded list to choose from but only a few seconds to decide which...

[Petrushka]

The two Czech Philharmonic concerts were by far the winners of the season for me and the second one, featuring an unforgettable Janacek Glagolitic Mass, was unquestionably the Prom of the season.

[Serial_Apologist]

So much for "customer" engagement

I must have missed "The Ring".

[Serial_Apologist]

Perhaps they should do a form of dynamic pricing where you are suddenly faced with a much expanded list to choose from but only a few seconds to decide which...

[smittims]

I agree the Czech Phil were outstanding; still one of the most distinctive-sounding orchestras in the world.

My short-list would be the Schoenberg/Zemlinsky,the Busoni concerto,the Brabbins Holst/Elgar and the Schoenberg violin concerto and Shost 5 concert. .

[Serial_Apologist]

I agree the Czech Phil were outstanding; still one of the most distinctive-sounding orchestras in the world.

My short-list would be the Schoenberg/Zemlinsky,the Busoni concerto,the Brabbins Holst/Elgar and the Schoenberg violin concerto and Shost 5 concert. .

Mine as well - even though I did not listen to all of the Proms.