Proms

[Boilk]

How's this for irony, the first piece by Roxanna Panufnik at a Proms season occurs in the centennial year of her father, who doesn't get a look in at all!

And I think it's incredibly unimaginative programming to precede Mahler 9 with Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.
Won't almost everyone be turning up for the Mahler regardless of the hors d'oeuvre? The 'overture' for the night could instead have been a perfect excuse to showcase a modern work to what will surely be a packed house anyway. (Or perhaps not as it's Runnicles?)

[Barbirollians]

My nearly three year old son will be appalled by the cbeebies Prom - he likes loud orchestral music in the car which he describes as scary bear music and would much prefer The Sorceror's Apprentice , Beethoven's Pastoral and Bruckner 2

[Flosshilde]

And I think it's incredibly unimaginative programming to precede Mahler 9 with Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.
Won't almost everyone be turning up for the Mahler regardless of the hors d'oeuvre? The 'overture' for the night could instead have been a perfect excuse to showcase a modern work to what will surely be a packed house anyway. (Or perhaps not as it's Runnicles?)

Tonight it was preceeded by Part's Cantus in memorium Benjamin Britten

[Norrette]

"A booking fee of 2% of the total value (plus £1.50 per ticket up to a maximum of £20.00 per booking) applies."

Was it this much last year? I can't remember.

[Tony Halstead]

Runnicles

[Thropplenoggin]

Would love to know why Runnicles is so loathed hereabouts? Tonight's Mahler 9 has been solid enough thus far.

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As for ticket prices, I've done a provisional plan and, ye gods, is it pricey: the Leipzigers range from £20-70, with a huge leap from Front Circle £29 to Side Stalls £56!

[mercia]

Which I mentioned in #90

so you did

[Barbirollians]

Would love to know why Runnicles is so loathed hereabouts? Tonight's Mahler 9 has been solid enough thus far.

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As for ticket prices, I've done a provisional plan and, ye gods, is it pricey: the Leipzigers range from £20-70, with a huge leap from Front Circle £29 to Side Stalls £56!

Solid is about all Runnicles is - stodgy , dull and unremarkable also spring to mind.

[pastoralguy]

My nearly three year old son will be appalled by the cbeebies Prom - he likes loud orchestral music in the car which he describes as scary bear music and would much prefer The Sorceror's Apprentice , Beethoven's Pastoral and Bruckner 2

Obviously a young gentleman with impeccable taste...

[Norrette]

As for ticket prices, I've done a provisional plan and, ye gods, is it pricey: the Leipzigers range from £20-70, with a huge leap from Front Circle £29 to Side Stalls £56!

My plan comes to just over £400 and my highest price prom is band B! Going to have to weed out the televised ones I think.

[Cockney Sparrow]

and I'm not familiar with this 50 minutes worth of Walton Henry V - is that the complete film music ?

Its arranged by Christopher Palmer, interpolated with narration. I like it, and the ACSMF / Marriner recording on Chandos** which has Christopher Plummer (** might therefore be on Naxos Music Library if you can access and stream it...) . Apparently, per the CD booklet, Plummer and Marriner wanted the arrangement and it states it includes 90% of the film music.
PDF of the notes here: http://www.theclassicalshop.net/Deta...mber=CHAN 8892

[MickyD]

What about poor Rameau? Does he not merit anything in this, the 250th anniversary year of his death? If not, I will be very disappointed...check out all the wonderful events that are being organised over here in France this year....

http://www.cmbv.fr/eng/Celebrating-Rameau-Rameau-2014

[Barbirollians]

Obviously a young gentleman with impeccable taste...

Not sure about that - he described Radu Lupu's Schubert Impromptu disc just received today as " boring " and put some scary bear music on .

[EdgeleyRob]

whether the best or not, the first four symphonies are to be considered (as Alwyn himself did) as one extended symphoy in four parts and 16 mvts. So, why a Brahms cycle, and not an Alwyn one?

You'll do for me !

[EdgeleyRob]

actually, I have never read that about the first 4 Alwyn Symphonies , and didn't know it, so I must thank you , and wander off to my CDs to do the decent thing.
(must pay more attention in class.....)

No doubt my appreciation of #1 will improve as a result.....

Thanks. Thats work over for the day, then.....

Edit: Perhaps this IS the start of a 4 year cycle of the first 4 ......!!! Hmmmmmm...

Yep ts.

from here https://www.chandos.net/pdf/CHAN%209429.pdf

I was 45 before I felt technically competent to
write my first symphony. I started work on a
long-cherished scheme, grandiose in scale, but a
project that I hoped might constitute a major
contribution to the development of the
symphony. I planned four symphonies as a
sequence – No. 1 was the exposition; No. 2 was
the slow movement; No. 3 a march-scherzo
with coda; No. 4 the epilogue. You will find the
thematic material for all four in No. 1. But
essentially each work had to be a satisfactory
entity in itself.

I'm quite impressed that there is SOME Alwyn at the proms.

I'm looking forward to the Pabmusic prom,the Moeran v/c,Elgar and RVW,and that's about it.

Mahler ,Brahms and LvB lovers are always looked after.