Proms 2012 (perhaps)

[LeMartinPecheur]

It's high time we revived the Viennese Night....


...and here to conduct it is our very own Andre Rieu!

[The live album of this Prom is prebooked to top the Tuesday Breakfast classical chart show for at least 52 wks, i.e. until next year's is issued]

[Alison]

Rob Cowan is to introduce all the concerts on Radio 3 this year. A BBC spokesperson says listeners will
find in Rob a familiar voice acting as an ideal entry point into the music.

[Beef Oven]

I wonder whether there will be any Mahler this year?

[EdgeleyRob]

I wonder whether there will be any Mahler this year?

There had better be some Vaughan Williams after last years disgraceful shun.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Rob Cowan is to introduce all the concerts on Radio 3 this year. A BBC spokesperson says listeners will
find in Rob a familiar voice acting as an ideal entry point into the music.

but also

Isn't the dumbing down of Mr Cowan - with his great knowledge of, and enthusiasm for, great recorded performances of all ages - one of the greater war-crimes of the current R3 offensive? (Nice word 'offensive' in this context I feel - a variety of useful ambiguities...)

[MrGongGong]

and there should be some Cage as it is the 100th anniversary of his birth
but I bet we get more Titanic and Jubolympics

[Beef Oven]

There had better be some Vaughan Williams after last years disgraceful shun.

Egg wetter gree! Shameful.
They've slimmed down on Bruckner in recent years too.

[Bryn]

and there should be some Cage as it is the 100th anniversary of his birth
but I bet we get more Titanic and Jubolympics

Well we are certainly due to hear the Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra on August 17, (Tilbury, Iceland SO, Voklov, I think).

[doversoul1]

According to an unofficial source, the Proms programming committee has approached one Mr Suffolkcoastal whose expertise in Popular Works Played on Radio 3 is said to be unrivalled.

[LeMartinPecheur]

OOOPS, we have two threads running with the same title, the other one obviously serious and this one generally satirical. Unfortunately, it looks as if some serious comments are now getting posted here. FF, can you add 'serious' and 'satirical' ('scurrilous'??) to their titles please?

[doversoul1]

OOOPS, we have two threads running with the same title, the other one obviously serious and this one generally satirical. Unfortunately, it looks as if some serious comments are now getting posted here. FF, can you add 'serious' and 'satirical' ('scurrilous'??) to their titles please?

Not Proms 2012?

[MrGongGong]

OOOPS, we have two threads running with the same title, the other one obviously serious and this one generally satirical. Unfortunately, it looks as if some serious comments are now getting posted here. FF, can you add 'serious' and 'satirical' ('scurrilous'??) to their titles please?

I'm not sure that everyone divides their world up in that way ?

surely it should read "Proms 2012©®"

[Suffolkcoastal]

According to an unofficial source, the Proms programming committee has approached one Mr Suffolkcoastal whose expertise in Popular Works Played on Radio 3 is said to be unrivalled.

They have indeed contacted me to find out the most played works for their 'Most Wanted, no this is no way meant to be copying CFM Prom'. The prom will therefore include Jupiter from The Planets, a selection of Hungarian and Slavonic Dances, a selection from Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet, some chunks from the Four Seasons, Debussy Prelude selection, a selection of Schubert Impromptus, the outer movements of Sibelius's Karelia Suite and the Ravel Mother Goose Suite. There will also be a series of sequels with the most played works of the RW regime, gushingly presented by the 'Most Wanted Trio' of KD, SMP and CBH.

[cloughie]

They have indeed contacted me to find out the most played works for their 'Most Wanted, no this is no way meant to be copying CFM Prom'. The prom will therefore include Jupiter from The Planets, a selection of Hungarian and Slavonic Dances, a selection from Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet, some chunks from the Four Seasons, Debussy Prelude selection, a selection of Schubert Impromptus, the outer movements of Sibelius's Karelia Suite and the Ravel Mother Goose Suite. There will also be a series of sequels with the most played works of the RW regime, gushingly presented by the 'Most Wanted Trio' of KD, SMP and CBH.

I really think this thread has gone too far - you've missed out Moldau!

[EnemyoftheStoat]

I'm not sure that everyone divides their world up in that way ?

surely it should read "Proms 2012©®"

Where's the "Like" button?

There should of course be a little p in a circle character - for paranoid - that you can insert after BBC.