Proms Fantasies

[Nick Armstrong]

Okay!!

Toccata: Oh! The Blessed Lord(Wilfred Heaton)
Tuba Concerto(Edward Gregson)
A specially comnissioned piece by Marc-Anthony Turngae
A Downland Suite(John Ireland)
Trumpets of the Angels(Edward Gregson)
Elgar Variations(Martin Ellerby)
Eden(John Pikard)
Revealtion(Philip Whilby)

I may edit this at somepoint.

So what do you think of the Proms REALITY this Sunday afternoon, Bbm?

Sunday 12 August

Vaughan Williams -Flourish
Holst - Suite No. 2 in F
Gavin Higgins - Der Aufstand (BBC Commission, World Premiere)
Martin Ellerby - Paris Sketches
Walton - Crown Imperial
Lucas - Chorale and Variations
John Pickard - Wildfire
Gavin Bryars - After the Underworlds (BBC Commission, World Premiere)
George Benjamin - Altitude
Derek Bourgeois - Blitz

National Youth Wind Orchestra
James Gourlay conductor
National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain

Bramwell Tovey conductor

[Nick Armstrong]

The gross paying audience for all proms suggested to date ex Gothic & Stravinsky/Ravel is 644 including one gallery ticket at 25p for yourself...

Very kind of you, I don't mind if I do

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The gross paying audience for all proms suggested to date ex Gothic & Stravinsky/Ravel is 644 including one gallery ticket at 25p for yourself...

Who you calling "gross"?

Three late-nighters:

Music by Dunstable and his followers from the Eton Choirbook and Old Hall Manuscripts.
(Any performers will do, but the Sixteen would be fine.)

Ferneyhough: the Carceri d'Invenzione cycle.
Elision Ensemble (making their grossly belated Prom debut); BBCSO/ Brabbins.

Barrett: Opening of the Mouth.
Elision.

... and an "all-dayer":

James Dillon: Nine Rivers.
Same forces who gave the World Premiere in Glasgow a couple of years ago.

I hope no one will condemn me for this all-British selection (Elision are from Australia, and Ferneyhough is based in the US, if that helps!)

[Roehre]

A chamber concert:

Ton de Leeuw:
String quartet no.2 (1964)

Ferneyhough:
String quartet no.2 (1980)

Keuris:
String quartet no.2 (1985)

Ardittis

Ferneyhough and Keuris both being pupils of de Leeuw's

[Roehre]

a Mahler [?] concert:

Mahler:
Symphonic prelude (1876?)
Adagio 10 in the 1924 Berg/Krenek edition

Interval:
Mahler
Piano quartet in a (1876)
Schnittke:
Piano quartet

after the interval:
Mahler:
Blumine
Todtenfeier (original version of Sym 2's 1st mvt)

Royal Concertgebouw - Janssons

[Roehre]

a Sunday afternoon concert

Stravinsky:
4 Norwegian Moods

Poulenc:
Sinfonietta

interval

Hartmann:
Symphony no.5

Milhaud:
Le Boeuf sur le Toit

Bavarian RSO - Janssons

[Roehre]

a choral concert for the Early Music Show:

Perotinus:
Viderunt omnes (c.1100)

Hockets from the Bamberg manuscript (13C) (drinking songs)

An English Ladymass from Salisbury Cathedral (14th Century)

Jacopo da Bologna:
Aquira altera
Io mi son umo che per le Frasche (two love songs from around 1350)

de Machaut:
Messe de Nostre Dame

Just under an hour's music
The sixteen

[cloughie]

The gross paying audience for all proms suggested to date ex Gothic & Stravinsky/Ravel is 644 including one gallery ticket at 25p for yourself...

Fantasy, Osborn, Fantasy - so where does luker come in?

[cloughie]

a Mahler [?] concert:

Mahler:
Symphonic prelude (1876?)
Adagio 10 in the 1924 Berg/Krenek edition

Interval:
Mahler
Piano quartet in a (1876)
Schnittke:
Piano quartet

after the interval:
Mahler:
Blumine
Todtenfeier (original version of Sym 2's 1st mvt)

Royal Concertgebouw - Janssons

[Bryn]

At least the Hyperion boys had something to work on!

Indeed, and their did their level best, but the effects of the dynamic limiter remain. At least with dynamic compression, if the setting had been recorded, a greater degree of restoration might have been achieved, but with the hard limiter that appears to have been employed by SIS Live for Proms 1 and 4 last year there was nothing much to be done about the lost dynamics above the limiter's setting.

[Beef Oven]

Indeed, and their did their level best, but the effects of the dynamic limiter remain. At least with dynamic compression, if the setting had been recorded, a greater degree of restoration might have been achieved, but with the hard limiter that appears to have been employed by SIS Live for Proms 1 and 4 last year there was nothing much to be done about the lost dynamics above the limiter's setting.

Such a balls-up and such a lost opportunity.

[Osborn]

Lieberson: Songs of Love & Sorrow
Gerald Finley (prob. Uk premiere)

Lieberson: Piano Concerto No. 1
Helene Grimaud (or Peter Serkin)

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
Anna Vinnitskaya (or Lise de la Salle)

Prokofiev: Cantata for 20th Anniv. of Oct. Revolution
Mariinsky Orchestra & Chorus
cond. Gergiev

[Serial_Apologist]

Belgrove's proposal of Koechlin's Les Bandar Log is one I strongly go along with, as it's probably my favourite work by this neglected French composer and friend of Debussy, Ravel and friend and pupil of Faure.

It would go down a treat - I wonder if it has ever been put on at the Proms...

[Beef Oven]

Belgrove's proposal of Koechlin's Les Bandar Log is one I strongly go along with

Split-infinitive - tsk, tsk.

[jayne lee wilson]

Too exhausted after a long hospital visit, and a visit from GasCookerRepairMan in the afternoon, to say much apart from acclaiming the fecund musical imaginations on display here (Radio 3 are you listening?! Ah... thought not)
... except that I like the "Symphony of 6ths" from AH (work that orchestra!), I'd love to hear Nine Rivers fhg; but perhaps I'm most hedonistically drawn to....

a Sunday afternoon concert

Stravinsky:
4 Norwegian Moods

Poulenc:
Sinfonietta

interval

Hartmann:
Symphony no.5

Milhaud:
Le Boeuf sur le Toit

Bavarian RSO - Janssons

....but please could we wind down, on a hot Sunday afternoon, to Creation du Monde instead of that rowdy beast?