Proms 2013: advance info

[bluestateprommer]

OK, one last tidbit from me prior to the launch announcement, in all likelihood, c/o the website of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, confirming a second BBC Phil concert for this summer's Proms:

http://www.bavouzet.com/concerts.php

"Monday 05 August, LONDON, 22:00

BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea NOSEDA conducting
Prokofiev Concerto No.2"

So putting all the tidbits, including the newest ones, in a row, here's the newest compilation:

Friday, 12 July: The First Night - includes RVW's A Sea Symphony (Sally Matthews, soprano)
Saturday, 13 July: Prom 2 - Doctor Who Prom (family Prom)
Sunday, 14 July: Prom 3 - Doctor Who Prom (family Prom)
Friday, 19 July: includes Schumann Piano Concerto (Jan Lisecki, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano)
Monday, 22 July: Wagner, Das Rheingold (Berlin Staatskapelle, Barenboim)
Wednesday, 24 July: Wagner, Die Walküre (Berlin Staatskapelle, Barenboim)
Friday, 26 July: Wagner, Siegfried (Berlin Staatskapelle, Barenboim)
Saturday, 27 July: Wagner, Tristan und Isolde (singers include Violeta Urmana; BBC SO, Bychkov)
Sunday, 28 July: Wagner, Götterdämmerung (Berlin Staatskapelle, Barenboim)
Sunday, 4 August: Wagner, Tannhäuser (singers include Robert Dean Smith; BBC SSO [presumably], Donald Runnicles)
Monday, 5 August: includes Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2 (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda)
Thursday, 8 August [NOTE; this date is wrong, see post below]: includes Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 (Vilde Frang, BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds)
Friday, 9 August: JSB, Easter Oratorio and Ascension Oratorio (soloists include Aliye Cornish; English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner)
Saturday, 10 August: Camerata Ireland, Barry Douglas
Friday, 16 August: Tippett, The Midsummer Marriage
Thursday, 22 August: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Sunday, 25 August: Wagner, Parsifal (Hallé, Mark Elder)
Tuesday, 27 August: Britten, Billy Budd (singers include Mark Padmore; Glyndebourne Opera, Andrew Davis)
Saturday, 7 September: The Last Night, with Joyce DiDonato and Marin Alsop

By sheer coincidence, even though there's no reason for any of you to believe this next statement, I actually wondered just in the last 24 hours when The Last Night would have its first female conductor. Now, per IGI, we know.

Updating the more generic listings:
August (probably) at some point: concert including Lutosławski (Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit)
September (probably) at some point: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
Free Prom (no idea of date): Turnage, Frieze; Beethoven 9 (NYOGB, Vasily Petrenko)
Bruckner 8 (no idea of date): Vienna Phil, Lorin Maazel

So we're now up to bits and pieces of 23 Proms for the 2013 season assembled here. Just over 1 day left for anyone to find last minute tidbits.

[DracoM]

All I can say is that if Maazel conducts the Bruckner anything like the way he conducted a recent Verdi Don Carlos at the Met, we're in for a dire evening. Thank goodness the VPO know it so well they can [ and indeed might be advised to] play it without watching the conductor.

[bluestateprommer]

last rabbits out of BSP's hat prior to launch

OK, the positively final bit of detective work before tomorrow's official launch announcement, including a correction of one speculative date, and something for the little Englanders here (so whining should cease immediately), not to mention the dates of the LPO Prom and the free Prom. To wit:

(a) From the Schirmer website, on The First Night:

"WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI - Variations on a Theme by Paganini [Wariacje ne temat Paganiniego]
Royal Albert Hall, London
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor"

So I was correct on my first guess regarding Oramo getting The First Night, which I then retracted. Oh well, dumb on me.

(b) From the Chester/Novello page, which operates on the same format as the Schirmer page:

1. "06 AUG 2013 EDMUND RUBBRA - Ode to The Queen
Royal Albert Hall, London
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Susan Bickley, contralto; John Storgårds, conductor"

2. "21 AUG 2013 GRANVILLE BANTOCK - Celtic Symphony
Royal Albert Hall, London
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor"

3. "30 AUG 2013 GRANVILLE BANTOCK - Witch of Atlas
Royal Albert Hall, London
London Philharmonic Orchestra"

(c) The date of the free Prom will be Sunday, August 11, per the following from the Boosey & Hawkes site about M-A.T's Frieze:

http://www.boosey.com/pdf/brochure/16405.pdf

"Frieze
2012 20 min
for orchestra

3.picc.3.corA.3(III=bcl).bcl.3.dbn-4.2WagnerTubas.3.3.1-perc(4):vib/tam-t/almglocken/Japanese Temple bells/marimba/BD/tom-t(lg)-bongo/timbales/glsp/bell plates/tuned gongs-cel-2harp-pft-strings

World Premiere: 11 Aug 2013
Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom
National Youth Orchestra of GB
Conductor: Vasily Petrenko"

So now the newest and final pre-launch compilation, incorporating the above information and corrections:

Friday, 12 July: The First Night, BBC SO, Sakari Oramo; includes Lutosławski's Variations on a Theme by Paganini and RVW's A Sea Symphony (Sally Matthews, soprano)
Saturday, 13 July: Prom 2 - Doctor Who Prom (Family Prom)
Sunday, 14 July: Prom 3 - Doctor Who Prom (Family Prom)
Friday, 19 July: Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano; includes Schumann Piano Concerto (Jan Lisecki)
Monday, 22 July: Wagner, Das Rheingold (Berlin Staatskapelle, Barenboim)
Wednesday, 24 July: Wagner, Die Walküre (Berlin Staatskapelle, Barenboim)
Friday, 26 July: Wagner, Siegfried (Berlin Staatskapelle, Barenboim)
Saturday, 27 July: Wagner, Tristan und Isolde (singers include Violeta Urmana; BBC SO, Bychkov)
Sunday, 28 July: Wagner, Götterdämmerung (Berlin Staatskapelle, Barenboim)
Sunday, 4 August: Wagner, Tannhäuser (singers include Robert Dean Smith; BBC SSO [presumably], Donald Runnicles)
Monday, 5 August: BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda, Late Night Prom (?); includes Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2 (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet)
Tuesday, 6 August: BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds; includes Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 (Vilde Frang) and Edmund Rubbra, Ode to the Queen (Susan Bickley, contralto);
Friday, 9 August: JSB, Easter Oratorio and Ascension Oratorio (soloists include Aliye Cornish; English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner)
Saturday, 10 August: Camerata Ireland, Barry Douglas
Sunday, 11 August: free Prom, of Mark-Anthony Turnage, Frieze, and Beethoven 9 (NYOGB, Vasily Petrenko)
Friday, 16 August: Tippett, The Midsummer Marriage
Wednesday, 21 August: BBC SO, Sakari Oramo; includes Granville Bantock, Celtic Symphony
Thursday, 22 August: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Sunday, 25 August: Wagner, Parsifal (Hallé, Mark Elder)
Tuesday, 27 August: Britten, Billy Budd (singers include Mark Padmore; Glyndebourne Opera, Andrew Davis)
Friday, 30 August: LPO Prom, includes Granville Bantock, Witch of Atlas
Saturday, 7 September: The Last Night, with Joyce DiDonato and Marin Alsop

Final comment on the more generic listings:
August (probably) at some point: concert including Lutosławski (Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit)
September (probably) at some point: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
Bruckner 8 (no idea of date): Vienna Phil, Lorin Maazel

You'll all see the official schedule before I will, no doubt. Catch up later :) .

[french frank]

Grand work, bsp - thanks very much!

[Alison]

Grand work. Still think it was more exciting to buy the guide in Smiths and not have the first clue what was in store!

[Suffolkcoastal]

bsp please do not refer to us who passionately care about our own country's music as whining little Englanders. RW puts these little carrots in every year, so there's nothing knew in this. At least 75% of the music I really love I'm never going to have the opportunity to hear live in concert, so people like me cling on to every outside chance we might get to hear these pieces, if you prefer more standard repertoire you have more regular opportunities. The three works mentioned above however,aren't the most interesting examples by Rubbra and Bantock that could have been chosen or necessarily show both composers in their best light. From what is listed above its beginning to look like a no go Proms for me again, there's no way I can sit through a Wagner opera at the RAH only Billy Budd is possibly tempting. But we'll see in a few hours what transpires.

[Nick Armstrong]

Grand work. Still think it was more exciting to buy the guide in Smiths and not have the first clue what was in store!

Is it churlish to feel a slight sense of relief that the actual guide is coming out?

[amateur51]

Is it churlish to feel a slight sense of relief that the actual guide is coming out?

Not at all - Mystic Meg can go back under her table for another year

[Charlie]

When will we officially find out?

[Hilaryjane]

Booking opens on the RAH site at 2.00 pm, but I have already picked up my Guide from WH Smith.

There's good news and bad news:-

Good news - season tickets are held at £190.
Bad news - Nigel Kennedy is performing on the Last Night!

For anyone wanting half season tickets or weekend promming passes, these are no longer available (apart from a weekend pass for the first weekend). There is only a full season (which apparently doesn't state whether it is arena or gallery - same price for both), weekend pass for the first weekend, or weekly promming passes, which differ depending on which week you are attending.

Seems to be an interesting change in booking arrangements for regular prommers, especially the fact that there seems to be no difference for season tickets as to whether they are gallery or arena.

[mrbouffant]

Booking opens on the RAH site at 2.00 pm, but I have already picked up my Guide from WH Smith.

I thought booking opened on May 11th...

The season announcement is at 2pm so expect the proms website to go live soon afterwards...

[Hilaryjane]

I thought booking opened on May 11th...

The season announcement is at 2pm so expect the proms website to go live soon afterwards...

Sorry, meant to say pre-booking!

[Charlie]

Nigel has lost his street cred, Hilaryjane?

[french frank]

bsp please do not refer to us who passionately care about our own country's music as whining little Englanders

I did read that as affectionately ironic, sc

[Nick Armstrong]

A few moments of calm in Brittany (and a French keyboard ) and it struck me an ACTUAL Proms thread would be sensible rather than this clairvoyant one...

q.v.:

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?8116-The-actual-programme-12-July-7-September&p=285280#post285280