Prom 76 - 13.09.14: The Last Night; BBC SO, Oramo

[Nick Armstrong]

Dipped in for a couple of minutes on the TV broadcast of what is on paper a pretty dire programme - some sort of terrible sound problem on BBC2 HD (not affecting other channels), clicks and dropouts. Additional incentive to give this a wide berth...

Anyone else experiencing poor BBC2 audio reception via satellite? The sound is marred by frequent blips. Makes it hardly worth watching.

Ah! only just saw this and Alison's posts... Unwatchable, I'd say. Someone's having a bad evening - and probably going to have a bad Monday morning...

[Alison]

Anyone else experiencing poor BBC2 audio reception via satellite? The sound is marred by frequent blips. Makes it hardly worth watching.

Yes, here too, very unsettling.

[pastoralguy]

No problems on the iplayer. We in Scotland are being subjected to Ms. K. Jenkins so I thought I'd listen and watch online.

A wonderful performance of the Chausson 'Poeme', I thought. What a player Ms. Jansen's is!

[pastoralguy]

That camera above the flying saucers is really giving me vertigo.

[mlb7171]

Peterloo, a perfectly good piece, ruined with dodgy words and reorchestration. Now a horrible dull dirge version of Athene. Doesn't Oramo do drama? Or was it the singers? The big crescendo leading to the pause and big chord was totally misjudged. Katie Derham said it creates an extraordinary atmosphere. Yes, boredom. It can only get better, as they say. Although as the tv people think we can't manage without taped little bits in between each piece, I doubt it.

[Flay]

We're driving at the moment. Mrs Flay will not entertain R3 so we have tried listening to Proms in the Park on R2. It is absolutely DIRE! :

[VodkaDilc]

Katie Derham said it creates an extraordinary atmosphere. Yes, boredom. It can only get better, as they say. Although as the tv people think we can't manage without taped little bits in between each piece, I doubt it.

She also said (and I did listen twice to check) that the Taverner was about to be played by the BBC SO. So much for preparation.

CDs for the rest of the evening, I think.

Yes, who decided to interfere with Peterloo? The added words, at least early on, completely missed the historical context. If MA thought it needed words he'd have written it with words.

And is there a story behind the non-appearance of Stephen Bryant? Does he feel he's done his bit for this year, having led at the First Night and several other occasions. Can't say I blame him. In the days of there being two joint leaders they tended to play for the First or Last Night, but rarely both. Tonight we apparently have a Guest Leader.

[Barbirollians]

This Strauss piece is bilge and what a waste of the Proms budget - to get Elizabeth Watts in just to sing a bit of this dross - and indeed some of the marching stuff sounds like a German newsreel of the 1930s .

He wrote so such wonderful music and we get this for the LNOTP.:grr

EW could have sung the FLS !

[Petrushka]

Poor sound on BBC2 HD here as well but now seems rectified. Switched to normal BBC2 for a while.

There is a horrible fascination about watching the Last Night which is increasingly becoming a parody of itself.

[Barbirollians]

No problems on the iplayer. We in Scotland are being subjected to Ms. K. Jenkins so I thought I'd listen and watch online.

A NO vote there then !

[teamsaint]

Rather oddly, sitting here listening to Chopin's first Sonata, (Andsnes)and knowing that i am avoiding the nonsense at the RAH is very much helping my enjoyment of the Sonata.

There, I didnt even mention raffers......

[Old Grumpy]

Anyone else experiencing poor BBC2 audio reception via satellite? The sound is marred by frequent blips. Makes it hardly worth watching.

Perfectly fine on the steam wireless...

[Parry1912]

What embarrassing doggerel those Tim Rice lyrics resembled- an insult to the music.

I'm tempted to say 'nothing new there, then.' But that wouldn't apply to his collaborations with ALW!

[Barbirollians]

Rafferty and Klein have really reached new depths in their presentation tonight . Yet the TV has Derham - no escape from banality .

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Rafferty and Klein have really reached new depths in their presentation tonight . Yet the TV has Derham - no escape from banality .

It's a ploy to persuade the Scots to vote "yes".