Proms 2015: Today's the day

[Beef Oven!]

Like this (music (I assune) starts at appox. 1.25)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suLOZ52vCg4

[Beef Oven!]

I have raided Lady Gould's Fenwicks fund and blown 3 notes on the app which now sits on my iPad and iPhone. Initial impressions - rather good the search facility especially. On a Proms Extra listing on Sibelius there is a picture of JS with a caption underneath - Bruckner! But to be fair I have never seen them in the same room.....

Freewicks only go up in smoke, anyway.

(Note to self, turn spell check off)

[Prommer]

HeHe!

I'll be at the gig for the Shiori. It's one of the EIGHT gigs that I think are worth going to (on first perusal).

I can't believe people are creaming their lounge-thongs at the prospect of Gerontius in September!!

This is a sorely disappointing Proms programme.

It'll only satisfy the most conservative classical music fan.

Nope, not me! Neither fish nor fowl to anybody middlebrow like me.

But there again, I do not claim to understand what a 'lounge-thong' might actually be! Sounds intriguing... Do you mean a drawing room stimulator of some kind, or beachwear of some description?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

This is a sorely disappointing Proms programme.

Several bits and pieces worth tuning in to hear - but no event to make the expense of travelling to London and getting overnight accommodation worth thinking about. Quite the dullest overall season since the Kenyon years.

[mercia]

...... so what's Schmidt Symphony 2 like ?

[Suffolkcoastal]

Several bits and pieces worth tuning in to hear - but no event to make the expense of travelling to London and getting overnight accommodation worth thinking about. Quite the dullest overall season since the Kenyon years.

Totally agree with you fhg. You've got two important Russian composers in anniversary years, Glazunov & Taneyev, & the St Petersburg Phil doing two concerts, and what do we get, a couple of CFM specials with neither composer represented. I've noticed that there is only one Nielsen symphony. Bizarre programming of the 5 Prokofiev Piano Concertos on the same programme, all the Beethoven PC across 3 concerts. The Last Night is like CFM on overdrive. One does wonder who puts some of these programmes together.

[Alain Maréchal]

I've noticed that there is only one Nielsen symphony.

If that is the case, then it is shameful, in a commemorative year.

[Beef Oven!]

...... so what's Schmidt Symphony 2 like ?

Better than 1, about as good as 3, not fit to carry 4's jock-strap after a match (no, that's 1). Better than Brahms, inferior to Bruckner, still too scary for the R3 forum hegemony.

Political correctness deems you mustn't like him because He once had a conversation with a Nazi.

Laibach refuse to affirm political beliefs.

[EdgeleyRob]

Totally agree with you fhg. You've got two important Russian composers in anniversary years, Glazunov & Taneyev, & the St Petersburg Phil doing two concerts, and what do we get, a couple of CFM specials with neither composer represented. I've noticed that there is only one Nielsen symphony. Bizarre programming of the 5 Prokofiev Piano Concertos on the same programme, all the Beethoven PC across 3 concerts. The Last Night is like CFM on overdrive. One does wonder who puts some of these programmes together.

One does indeed sc.

Nice to see Sancta Civitas programmed.
Gerontius looks worth tuning in for.
There's some Parry too
Underwhelmed as I knew I would be really

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

...... so what's Schmidt Symphony 2 like ?

This:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtoXKRnAza4

(I quite like it.)

[Alain Maréchal]

I would categorise Schmidt as "lyrical and soulful middle-european". Each symphony is an improvement on the previous one, and it is a pity neither 3 nor 4 are to be performed. 2 is interesting, but not much more than that. 4, on the other hand, is a neglected masterpiece (and is the answer to the question "name a symphony that begins and ends with a trumpet solo").

(<<Laibach refuse to affirm political beliefs. >> I've tried to understand that sentence, but failed.)

[EnemyoftheStoat]

I would categorise Schmidt as "lyrical and soulful middle-european". Each symphony is an improvement on the previous one, and its a pity either 3 or 4 are not being performed. 2 is interesting, but not much more. 4, on the other hand, is a neglected masterpiece (and is the answer to the question "name a symphony that begins and ends with a trumpet solo").

The second is the one I'd most prefer to hear performed, before number 1 (Dvorak on acid), the dreary number 3, and finally number 4, which for me occupies a very dark place...

[Suffolkcoastal]

The only Parry is the usual Jerusalem ER, and that is as usual in Elgar's orchestration. It basically looks like a season for trying to steal the listeners from CFM.

Agree with the comment about Schmidt 4, certainly a masterpiece. One further work I've noticed, is the inclusion of Bruckner's 3rd Mass, a piece I admire greatly, but its not well programmed. At least there's some F J Haydn this year, but most of it is also badly programmed. I would have programmed the Harmoniemesse with the Stravinsky & Poulenc.

[EnemyoftheStoat]

One of the more ill conceived concerts seems to me to be Gergiev and the LSO with three different pianists traversing all five Prokofiev piano concertos in one concert ?

They'll need three pianos and possibly a skip to cart them away after the gig... Ah, I realised it's not Matsuev is it.

[Alain Maréchal]

number 4, which for me occupies a very dark place...

Yield to the dark place, you will feel much better afterwards! (I apologise for editing my post and changing the syntax as you were quoting it, but the outcome is similar).