Pretty impressive Proms season so far

[Nick Armstrong]

Where else could you hear, within one week, Belshazzar's Feast, Child of our Time, Turangalila and Bernstein's Mass - and they aren't even the sole main events of the season. Plus a complete LvB cycle, Bruckner 8... and it's only the end of the first week in August. And Bach's B minor Mass and Mahler 7 as well.

And the weekend to come: Apostles, Berlioz Grande Messe and Gurrelieder!!! With Grimes sailing by not long after. And Hymnus Paradisi....

Strong year for the Proms, I think

(Admittedly if you don't like choral music, you're screwed!! )

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Strong year for the Proms, I think

Totally agree, Hymnus

And, on the whole, such good performances - the Chamber Music and Late-Nighters, too.

[Bryn]

And the best is yet to come, on the 17th of this very month. Has anyone else here yet navigated their way through the booking process for a 6pm music walk? Not the simplest of procedures.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

And the best is yet to come, on the 17th of this very month.

There's a not-at-all-bad one coming up this Saturday afternoon, too.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/whats-on/2012/august-11/14330

[Bryn]

There's a not-at-all-bad one coming up this Saturday afternoon, too.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/whats-on/...ugust-11/14330

Which, regrettably, I can't get to. I will have to rely on the iPlayer offering.

[Alison]

There hasn't been that aching dullness that characterised much of the Kenyon era.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

There hasn't been that aching dullness that characterised much of the Kenyon era.

ad infinitum;

... and, if you will forgive the impertinence,

[Nick Armstrong]

ad infinitum;

... and, if you will forgive the impertinence,

Watch him, Alison....

[amateur51]

I thoroughly agree, it's been a pleasure!

How nice to be positive for a change

[Alison]

The early weeks of the Kenyon years had you just waiting around for the bigger named performers who feature later in August and through the last

two or three weeks.. We get a proper Proms season now.

[cloughie]

The early weeks of the Kenyon years had you just waiting around for the bigger named performers who feature later in August and through the last

two or three weeks.. We get a proper Proms season now.

This years is OK so far.

I seem to remember 2003 was a good one!

[amateur51]

This years is OK so far.

I seem to remember 2003 was a good one!

Such a hot Summer tho, 2003 - RAH must've been like a giant sauna ... without any of the benefits

[Nick Armstrong]

Such a hot Summer tho, 2003 - RAH must've been like a giant sauna ... without any of the benefits

How can you remember?! Either the season or the weather?

Just looked back at the season - don't even quite remember which concerts we went to.... with one exception, this unforgettable gem:

Wednesday 10 September 2003 10.00pm

J. S. Bach - Cantata No. 170, 'Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust', BWV 170
Rameau - L' Apothéose de la Dance (suite devised Minkowski)
Handel - Ariodante, HWV 35

Les Musiciens du Louvre
Marc Minkowski conductor
Anne Sofie Otter mezzo-soprano

[Flosshilde]

(Admittedly if you don't like choral music, you're screwed!! )

When I heard Petroc run through some of the forthcoming concerts I did think that it's very much a choral season - or should that be festival? Perhaps the Choir thread should lift it's head out of the hymn book & discuss some of the choirs performing in the Proms

[Flosshilde]

a giant sauna ... without any of the benefits

Ooh, I've known moments in the Arena ...