Prom 33 (7.8.12): Wagner, Bruckner & MacMillan

[amateur51]

it's the accompanying Amarone that usually does it

[Beef Oven]

Very impressed with Macmillan's Credo too!

The Pater and Filius sections are quite starkly instrumented, vocally almost ritualistic, with some startling leaps and high choral registers; and delicate, intimate voicings for three solo violas towards the end of Filius. The Spiritus Sanctus is more textually elaborated - I felt a slight sense of anticlimax here which wasn't entirely dispelled on a second hearing - but it draws the musical threads together tightly for a fulfilling end.
The three choruses soared impressively and expressively around the sympathetic space, the winds and brass seeming to comment on their intense declamations.

It's a striking piece - do catch up with it if you missed it live.

I wonder if Macmillan was present. He tells us he does not like England and the English, so he may have stayed away

[Flosshilde]

I wonder if Macmillan was present. He tells us he does not like England and the English, so he may have stayed away

Does he? Where? I know that he's highly critical of the anti-English-ness of the SNP.

I think he was at the Prom - perhaps someone who listened to the whole of his piece can say if he came on stage at the end. He did talk to the presenter just before his work was played, although it could have been recorded previously, or by telephone. He was very explicit that it is intended purely as a concert work, & not liturgical (probably wisely - how often dose a symphony orchestra feature during Mass these days?)

[JoeG]

Watched the TV transmission - he was there - I was impressed with his piece and the Bruckner

[Beef Oven]

Watched the TV transmission - he was there

Every man's got his price

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[Flosshilde]

About 5p in your case?

[Richard Tarleton]

I couldn't agree more.Jayne's reviews are by far the best thing on this forum

but it was a rather nice ribeye, so...

dinner time chez jayne sounds pretty good too

[RobertLeDiable]

I wonder if Macmillan was present. He tells us he does not like England and the English, so he may have stayed away

I'd be interested to know where he's quoted as saying that, especially as he's normally a trenchant critic of Scottish nationalism. Sounds like the usual accusations of anti-Englishness that are made from some quarters about Andy Murray - total invention.

[Beef Oven]

I'd be interested to know where he's quoted as saying that, especially as he's normally a trenchant critic of Scottish nationalism. Sounds like the usual accusations of anti-Englishness that are made from some quarters about Andy Murray - total invention.

There speaks a man with an open mind

[EdgeleyRob]

dinner time chez jayne sounds pretty good too

Don't tell me....Jayne has got a chip pan too!

[Beef Oven]

Don't tell me....Jayne has got a chip pan too!

and Häagen-Dazs ice cream

We got class ER

[RobertLeDiable]

There speaks a man with an open mind

Sorry? I was disagreeing with you. In fact I was saying you're factually wrong. In order to have an 'open mind', do I have to agree with you?

[Beef Oven]

Sorry? I was disagreeing with you. In fact I was saying you're factually wrong. In order to have an 'open mind', do I have to agree with you?

You started off by asking a question then ended with the conclusion that it is all fabrication. Can't really do much with a closed mind situation like that.

[RobertLeDiable]

You started off by asking a question then ended with the conclusion that it is all fabrication. Can't really do much with a closed mind situation like that.

Alright then. Back up your assertion that MacMillan doesn't like England or the English with some evidence.

[Beef Oven]

Alright then. Back up your assertion that MacMillan doesn't like England or the English with some evidence.

Why didn't you say that in the first place?