Proms 11 & 13 - 26/27.07.14: CBeebies Prom

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Saturday, 26 July & Sunday, 27th July
11.00 a.m. – c. 11.50 a.m.
Royal Albert Hall

The BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Stephen Bell join Cbeebies favourites with an audience of pre-school children and their parents for the first ever CBeebies Prom. Come on a tour through the orchestra and a journey around London to collect sounds for a grand finale.

11.00am
Peter Willmott: Overture on Cbeebies themes (first performance)
Wood: Fantasia on British Sea Songs: Hornpipe
Rozsa: Parade of the Charioteers
Paul Honey: Old Jack's Boat
Holst: St Paul's Suite: Dargason
Prokofiev: Cinderella: Midnight
Barrie Bignold: Around Sound (first performance, BBC Commision)

BBC Philharmonic
Stephen Bell (conductor)
Katy Ashworth
Andy Day
Chris Jarvis
Cat Sandion
Mr Bloom (Ben Faulks)
Gem from Swashbuckle (Gemma Hunt)
Robert the Robot from Justin's House (Steven Kynman)
And
Bernard Cribbins from Old Jack's Boat with Salty the Dog.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

What would you include in such a Prom?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

What would you include in such a Prom?

The Art of Fugue - everyone sit up straight; fingers on lips and listen!

[MrGongGong]

There you go old timers
you get some of your beloved Sea Songs

Nice to see Steve conducting

A journey from the Horns to the Arse ?

(ref. Jokes thread and Mr Bell's other musical activities )

[Pabmusic]

The Art of Fugue - everyone sit up straight; fingers on lips and listen!

This is much too long, but first thoughts include -

Mozart the "Sleigh Ride" German Dance
First movement of Schubert 5
Weber Concertino for Clarinet (or maybe the one for horn - with those chords)
Sullivan: Overture di Ballo (a bit long?) or the overture to The Yeomen of the Guard
Wagner: Prelude to Act 3 of Lohengrin, leading to the Bridal Procession
Elgar: P & C No. 1 (end of the first half)
Debussy: En Bateau (piano duet & orchestra)
Debussy: Second movement of La Mer
Holst: Suite no. 1 (fist movement), or ending of the suite, if it can be compared with the ending of Jupiter
Holst: Jupiter (if the ending can be compared with that of the First Suite), or (if no Holst) -
Stravinsky: Le Sacre - Spring Rounds and Games of Different Tribes
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G (second movement)
Prokofiev: Overture on Hebrew Themes
Korngold: Opening of King's Row score, followed by -
Williams: Star Wars or Raiders of the Lost Ark
Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine

[bluestateprommer]

Fun article from The Guardian about Bernard Cribbins, in advance of his Proms debut this weekend:

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/jul/24/bernard-cribbins-cbeebies-prom

[Richard J.]

I can only assume that Pabmusic was not aware that the target age range for CBeebies is 0 - 6.

Anyway my two grandsons enjoyed the concert. My only regret was that, having driven them and their mother to the RAH, I was denied the opportunity to listen to the concert in the car. What happened to the BBC's promise that every concert is broadcast live on Radio 3? That was not the case with Prom 11 this morning, despite the concert including two first performances.

[mercia]

I guess it was always going to be a toss-up whether prom 11 or 13 was broadcast - we can all enjoy tomorrow

[Donnie Essen]

I don't get when this is supposed to be on the television. It's mentioned on the web page, but it doesn't say when. Can't see it on the schedule.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/whats-on/2014/categories/proms-on-tv

[french frank]

I don't get when this is supposed to be on the television. It's mentioned on the web page, but it doesn't say when.

Two people have asked the question on the CBeebies Facebook page, but in typical BBC interactive style there has been no response.

Perhaps an edited version at Christmas??? (Just a guess)

[Donnie Essen]

Yeah, it's on Monday on CBeebies, 9am and then repeated at 4:45pm.

[Donnie Essen]

Well, ol' Donnie was in the hall that day and enjoyed it, but watching it this morning only confirmed how thematically coherent it was (I hadn't paid much attention to Old Jack's story before, but it was relevant too, sorta like intertextuality or something with things transforming into other things and then there was the clock leading to the Big Ben scene). It was not just showing off an orchestra, but the prom was a work in itself, with 'found sounds' around town fitting into the premiere of a new work. Pretty cool.