Your wishes for 2016 (Music-related suggestions only please)

[MrGongGong]

Satie 150th Birthdays.

Vexations would be perfect (followed by the La Monte Young prom that we all know should be coming next year)

[Stanfordian]

Koechlin certainly hasn't suffered from over exposure and more of his music would indeed be welcome, other French composers such as Magnard and Ropartz haven't been performed at all at the proms & not a great deal of Roussel either. Another missed opportunity this year was for Dukas Symphony in C, which has never been performed at the proms.

Hiya Suffolk,

Koechlin is a good shout! Also Magnard and Ropartz too!

[Lat-Literal]

Vexations would be perfect (followed by the La Monte Young prom that we all know should be coming next year)

Yes indeed.

Vexations

and

The Tortoise Recalling the Drone of the Holy Numbers as they were Revealed in the Dreams of the Whirlwind and the Obsidian Gong.

Maybe a tribute to Daevid Allen as well?

[Colonel Danby]

In your dreams, PG, and in mine: George Lloyd's music is sublime, and I have to confess to having most of the Symphonies, the piano music and at least one of the piano concertos conducted by the composer, plus the symphonies 4, 5 and 8 with Ted Downes on Lyrita. Were I really fortunate, and Mr Blakeman was in a good mood, I should like to hear the Symphonic Mass at the Proms, surely his masterpiece. I was lucky to meet Lloyd once at ENO when he was there for Britten's 'Peter Grimes' and he was so nice giving me his autograph. A very fine composer, whose music should be more widely heard (but won't).

[teamsaint]

How about including all the anniversary composers that have been snubbed in the last 15 years or so:

Magnard, Ropartz, Hindemith, Glazunov, Tubin, Holmboe, W Schuman, Diamond etc etc

Kalliwoda would be good, the violin concertos of Gade and Goldmark, a greater variety of composers from the 'classical era'. Some Rautavaara, Miaskovsky and Weinberg as well as Arnold & Rubbra. Honegger, Martinu, Carter, Tippett please.

A Mahler free proms season for once, absolutely no George Lloyd. Give the regular The Planets, Le Sacre, Shostakovich 10 etc a rest please.

Only the fifth and sixth symphonies have ever made an appearance, the last time in 1919. Pretty unbelievable.

I'd love to hear the 4th performed there.

[EdgeleyRob]

In your dreams, PG, and in mine: George Lloyd's music is sublime, and I have to confess to having most of the Symphonies, the piano music and at least one of the piano concertos conducted by the composer, plus the symphonies 4, 5 and 8 with Ted Downes on Lyrita. Were I really fortunate, and Mr Blakeman was in a good mood, I should like to hear the Symphonic Mass at the Proms, surely his masterpiece. I was lucky to meet Lloyd once at ENO when he was there for Britten's 'Peter Grimes' and he was so nice giving me his autograph. A very fine composer, whose music should be more widely heard (but won't).

Not just me and Pastoralguy then

[Colonel Danby]

Unfortunately, if we are talking about Geoffrey Bush's Second Symphony, it's the 'Guildford' rather than the 'Nottingham' and of course I've got it on Lyrita, coupled with the overture 'Yorick', the wonderful Music of 1967, and the first Symphony (SRCD 252) if anybody is interested (which of course, nobody is).

A pedant writes (continued p94)...

[teamsaint]

Unfortunately, if we are talking about Geoffrey Bush's Second Symphony, it's the 'Guildford' rather than the 'Nottingham' and of course I've got it on Lyrita, coupled with the overture 'Yorick', the wonderful Music of 1967, and the first Symphony (SRCD 252) if anybody is interested (which of course, nobody is).

A pedant writes (continued p94)...

I have put that CD top of my playlist for this morning, Colonel.

[Bryn]

Unfortunately, if we are talking about Geoffrey Bush's Second Symphony, it's the 'Guildford' rather than the 'Nottingham' and of course I've got it on Lyrita, coupled with the overture 'Yorick', the wonderful Music of 1967, and the first Symphony (SRCD 252) if anybody is interested (which of course, nobody is).

A pedant writes (continued p94)...

I took the original reference to be to Alan Bush's 2nd Symphony, which is indeed known as the Nottingham.

[Colonel Danby]

Mea culpa Bryn, I should have checked my sources first! At least Geoffrey Bush has been recorded, while Alan remains almost clouded in obscurity: this is because he was a communist and therefore ignored by the BBC and concert promoters. Once again, a fine Composer has been shunned by the Grey Suites: I've got one or two short pieces by him, notably the 3 Concert Studies Op 31, and the piano Piece 'Esquisse: Le Quatorze Juillet' Op 38 and that's about it.

The chances of an Alan Bush symphony being performed next year's Proms are precisely Nil.

[Roehre]

Mea culpa Bryn, I should have checked my sources first! At least Geoffrey Bush has been recorded, while Alan remains almost clouded in obscurity: this is because he was a communist and therefore ignored by the BBC and concert promoters. Once again, a fine Composer has been shunned by the Grey Suites: I've got one or two short pieces by him, notably the 3 Concert Studies Op 31, and the piano Piece 'Esquisse: Le Quatorze Juillet' Op 38 and that's about it.

The chances of an Alan Bush symphony being performed next year's Proms are precisely Nil.

the same applies to Wordsworth, of whose 8 symphonies only the 2nd and 3rd haven been recorded (by Lyrita in the 1990s)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

re: Alan Bush, not to be missed are:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0002LGX6C

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00006JM3W

(There hasn't been a finer S4tet written by a British composer than Dialectic)

and there's also (which I don't know):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00HAV1IKS

[Bryn]

Mea culpa Bryn, I should have checked my sources first! At least Geoffrey Bush has been recorded, while Alan remains almost clouded in obscurity: this is because he was a communist and therefore ignored by the BBC and concert promoters. Once again, a fine Composer has been shunned by the Grey Suites: I've got one or two short pieces by him, notably the 3 Concert Studies Op 31, and the piano Piece 'Esquisse: Le Quatorze Juillet' Op 38 and that's about it.

The chances of an Alan Bush symphony being performed next year's Proms are precisely Nil.

Believe it or not, BBC Radio 3 did broadcast Alan Bush's Joe Hill on 1979, and repeated the broadcast twice. Not sure whether the 1974 Sadlers Wells production of Wat Tyler was broadcast. The Third Programme broadcast Men of Blackmoor in 1969. A GDR radio production of The Sugar Reapers was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 1976 (with added English narration) and re-broadcast twice.

In recent years the Nottingham Symphony has only been broadcast in part on BBC Radio 3 (just the first movement, in January 2014).

So, operatically, the Beeb has not done that badly by Alan Bush. The Nottingham is available on CD and, played by the BBCSO (so it must have been broadcast), on Youtube:

[EdgeleyRob]

re: Alan Bush, not to be missed are:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0002LGX6C

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00006JM3W

(There hasn't been a finer S4tet written by a British composer than Dialectic)

and there's also (which I don't know):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00HAV1IKS

Thanks ferney,that recording of the symphonies can also be found in this value set

http://www.amazon.co.uk/British-Symphonic-Collection-Edward-Elgar/dp/B004VRXEXI/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1448922270&sr=1-1&keywords=british+symphonic+collection

I don't know the other two cds but they are now on the very long list !

[Serial_Apologist]

That's reminded me, thanks - still waiting for my copy of Bush's "Voices of the Prophets" to drop on the mat - Britten and Pears, along with other British lieder!

Time to chivvy someone up.