Am I wrong, I didnt see Britten's War Req peogrammed?
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Well; it's held in London. But the Proms was never a "British Music" Festival - Newman, Cathcart and Wood intended it from the start to be an "attractive" way of getting large audiences to hear Classical Music - with emphasis on the German classics and contemporary Music. British Music featured strongly from the beginning, but in no greater proportion than it does in this year's season.Originally posted by Thropplenoggin View PostAnd there I was thinking it was a British concert series
And Andrew Clements (once such a fine and perceptive commentator on Music) has become an increasingly grouchy old git since about the mid-'90s.[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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I'm not very excited, especially when I compare with last year's programme. Is it the second or third time in 12 months that we are getting the complete Ring cycle on Radio 3?
The Monteverdi Choir Bach prom does sound very good, though!Comment
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No; of the 13 Britten performances, the War Requiem isn't one. (Sinfonia da Requiem any use to you?)Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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Yes, I saw that, thank youOriginally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostDon’t cry for me
I go where music was born
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Ah! And I've just seen the Stockhausen night Prom - London beginning to catch up with Birmingham and Huddersfield at last?Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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And a String Quartet by Maconchy and a premiere of a piece by RVW (orch Payne).[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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Good spot Ferney.Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
They would be groovy on "Breakfast", and mostly they fit between news bulletins....I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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A pretty dire season unless you are obsessed with Wagner . If they are getting Nige in for the last night at least get him to play a concerto for crying out loudComment
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Is it my imagination, or are the Performers (especially the orchestras) given much lower profile on the web guide than in previous years?I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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You're right ferney,I should be thankful,your main man ignored,which is a disgrace.Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostAh, stop yer whingin'! Five "bits of Bantock" (more than an hour's Music) and two by yer main man!
Meanwhile, some of us will have to have a certain composer's 70th birthday celebrations away from South Kensington!
Looking forward to the Lutoslawskis and the Feldman - and the Proms debut of Lachenmann!!! And the Midsummer Marriage. Best of all: the stuff from the Eton Choirbook coupled with Birtwistle.
And I love Barenboim's Wagner, too, so I'm quite happy.Comment
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Well having gone through the whole season i think it is appalling. Seven Wagner operas for crying out loud - no doubt the obsessive Wagnerites will be wetting themselves with glee whilst Verdi gets half a programme of arias and one concert of the Four sacred pieces and the odd other bit. Whilst there is endless Lutoslawki and lots of Britten
The Alpine Symphony again ! They get as fine a violinist as Vilde Frang in and give her the Bruch 1 yawn . A last night of lots of little bits and pieces - what a shame Nigel Kennedy wasn't asked to dust off his Britten Concerto rather than Janine jansen . For no obvious reason meanwhile we get all the Tchaikovsky symphonies and not a single piece of Schubert outside the Lewis/Cooper late nght piano duo and scarcely any Mozart at all and no Haydn .
An extremely unbalanced and lousy season.
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