Prom 26: Wednesday 3rd August at 7.30 p.m. (French music)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with chief conductor Donald Runnicles throws the musical focus on France, including a celebration of Henri Dutilleux's 95th Birthday.

'Tout un monde lointain' is one of Dutilleux's best loved works. Commissioned by the great Cellist, Mstislav Rostropovich, it ranks among the great cello concertos of the 20th century. The very French and vivid instrumental imagination and harmony evoke dreamlike qualities in Baudelaire's poems - the inspiration for this work. The masterly composition and orchestration of Maurice Ravel then take us to Spain, with his ever popular Bolero, and to Ancient Greece with his orchestral and choral masterpiece Daphnis and Chloë - written for the Ballets Russes in 1912. Ravel's slightly older contemporary, Debussy, also had his work Prelude a L'après-midi d'un faune staged and popularised by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, and it sets up a world of breathtaking orchestral textures.

Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Henri Dutilleux: 'Tout un monde lointain ...'
Ravel: Boléro
Ravel: Daphnis and Chloë

Lynn Harrell (cello)
Edinburgh Festival Chorus
The BBC Scottish Symphoy Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor)

Presented by Andrew McGregor

[OldTechie]

We will not be able to "Listen in HD" unless we can get the BBC to restart the encoder. It has gone into garbled mode. This has taken 2 weeks to get through to anyone to fix it in the past, so if you find it is not working please use the BBC complaints procedures to ask for it to be fixed. If they get enough complaints at the same time they may realise it is a fault at their end.

Eric

[Bryn]

We will not be able to "Listen in HD" unless we can get the BBC to restart the encoder. It has gone into garbled mode. This has taken 2 weeks to get through to anyone to fix it in the past, so if you find it is not working please use the BBC complaints procedures to ask for it to be fixed. If they get enough complaints at the same time they may realise it is a fault at their end.

Eric

Complaint duly added. They really do put far too many stumbling blocks on the way, don't they. I bet a good many give up part way through the convoluted process of registering a complaint or comment.

Oh, and I included this thread's URL in my complaint, just so they know it's not just me who is finding the HD Sound stream broken up.

[eighthobstruction]

HD....hardly delivered....??

[Stunsworth]

We will not be able to "Listen in HD" unless we can get the BBC to restart the encoder. It has gone into garbled mode

As I've mentioned in another thread, the HD AAC feed is available in iTunes under the 'Radio' section and it working fine - in fact I'm listening to it as I type.

[Bryn]

As I've mentioned in another thread, the HD AAC feed is available in iTunes under the 'Radio' section and it working fine - in fact I'm listening to it as I type.

Steve, being something of an Apple avoider, I have no idea how to get the "BBC Radio 3 High" stream onto a playlist in iTunes. A quick tutorial would be appreciated. I do find iTunes painfully slow to load on this Windoze XP running laptop.

[mercia]

Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Henri Dutilleux: 'Tout un monde lointain ...'
Ravel: Boléro
Ravel: Daphnis and Chloë

don't we get enough faune and Bolero on Radio 3? I'd get rid of them and substitute the Debussy Fantaisie for piano and orchestra

[Bryn]

This is one of the Proms aimed specifically at attracting new listeners to 'classical music', as noted in the Proms Prospectus and the Prom mini-guide booklet. The work credited with starting the modernist trend in 'classical music' and the ever popular Bolero (let's hoe it gets a fine, fixed paced performance tonight) are both fine choices for such a concert. To have them frame 'Tout un monde loinatain ... ', and cap the concert with the complete score of Daphnis & Chloe is near genius concert planning for those new to 'classical music' in my view.

[Stunsworth]

Bryn, I tried to upload a couple of screenshots, but the forum doesn't seem to allow them. However you need to do the following...

Open iTunes
Click on 'Radio' that appears on the left hand side of the screen as a subheading under 'Libarary'
This will give you a list of types of radio stations. Click on the right facing triangle against 'Classical'
That will give you a list of all the classical radio stations. Double click on 'BBC Radio 3 High' and the HD stream will begin to play.

To create a playlist and add the Radio 3 stream to it do the following.

Select 'File' from the menu at the top of the screen and then select 'New Playlist' from the drop down menu.
A new playlist will then appear under the heading of 'PLAYLISTS' on the left hand side of the screen. You can then change the playlist name to whatever you want.
Once the playlist has been created click on the 'BBC Radio 3 High' line in the list of radio stations. Keep the mouse button held down and drag the line over the top of the playlist you have just created.
When the mouse is over the new playlist let go of the mouse button. The radio station will them appear when you click on the playlist you added.

You can then repeat the above for each radio station you want to add to the playlist.

Hope that helps, let me know if anything isn't clear.

[Bryn]

Thanks Steve, that saves me ploughing through the help files.

By the way, to 'upload' screenshots here, you need to first upload them to one of the image sharing sites, then link to them from here using the 13th button along from the left in the message composition window (Image). Play around with it, previewing as you go, and you will soon get the hang of it.

[mercia]

This is one of the Proms aimed specifically at attracting new listeners to 'classical music'

are there many of those? I don't have a prospectus

[Stunsworth]

By the way, to 'upload' screenshots here, you need to first upload them to one of the image sharing sites, then link to them from here using the 13th button along from the left in the message composition window (Image). Play around with it, previewing as you go, and you will soon get the hang of it.

Thanks, I was trying to upload them directly - there's an option to do that. I assume it's been disabled due to bandwidth considerations.

[Bryn]

Yet to come are Proms 30, 37, 38, 39, 40, 57, 59 and 72, all identified as "STARTERS". If you go to any Prom, you can pick up one of the little 48 page A6 format Proms booklets without charge.

[jayne lee wilson]

Thanks to Stunsworth for getting HDs through iTunes... doesn't it sound higher level than usual, bit compressed? Very "loudness" at my usual volume... Settings all checked... hmm...

HDs still not working off R3 homepage etc. as Prom 26 begins... radioplayer garbled too! First problem I've had with HDs this season... A Mac user, I don't like iTunes, use xbmc for downloads.

[Bryn]

As I recall, it was the weekend just before the Proms that we previously encountered a similar problem with the HD Sound stream.