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

[MrGongGong]

At the risk of sounding like a Debbie Downer, this whole thread is moot, of course, since the Proms planning works according to a 3-year advance schedule (as noted in another thread).

You don't seem to "get it", do you?
So when people say to you something like
"who would be in your fantasy string quartet/metal band/baseball team/movie" you tell them to stop fantasising and that Hendrix is dead

IT'S A GAME
IT'S A LOAD OF FOLKS ON THE INTERNET IMAGINING THINGS

which is great IMV

now I must go as i'm almost there with the Rattigan, Shilkloper, Eastop, Brain horn quartet I promised to fix ( "Brain dead" you say )

[french frank]

You don't seem to "get it", do you?

Oh, I think bsp did "get it", and was joining in by saying "it's perhaps not too imaginative to hope for return appearances by Daniel Barenboim and Bernard Haitink next summer, as 2016 will mark the 50th anniversary of both of their Proms debuts &c". Perhaps you were it a bit of a hurry and didn't get that far?

[MrGongGong]

Perhaps you were it a bit of a hurry and didn't get that far?

It was very early your honour

Indeed you are correct ... sorry

[french frank]

It was very early your honour

Indeed you are correct ... sorry

[Barbirollians]

Martha Argerich - missing from the Proms for a few years now . Playing the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto NO 1 with Andris Nelsons conducting .

Milford's Violin Concerto , Harty's Irish Symphony - Aus Italien , Maria Joao Pires playing whatever she likes , Das Lied Von der Erde with Jonas Kaufmann and AS von Otter and as we cannot have Abbado anymore Chailly will do , a complete VW symphony cycle from Halle/Elder and Elgar 1 from Barenboim and Dresden ,the LSO/Rattle in Debussy and Ravel … a whole concert of Lachenmann and ferneyhough ( fixed on a date when I am on holiday ) and Beethoven 9 back on the penultimate night !

[Serial_Apologist]

I'd like to see a big revival of interest in composing in tone rows. Nothing much that is genuinely new in terms of "expanding the permissible in the empire of sound", as Debussy is said to have said to Stravinsky after hearing "The Rite", seems to be happening with the stuff of music, which for me as I near 70 is the good old dependable chromatic scale with its 12 tones. Or 13 if you count C twice. Ok so you have electronic manipulations of sound etc but that's fiddling at the edges. We need to get composers out of the habit of thinking everything harmonic has to resolve. It's as if Stanford were still alive!!! As Ives said to his teacher, "chords don't have to resolve if they don't want to" - and he was one of the first to think in terms of pitch sets. People still say, "Oh that serial stuff, it deprives the composer of spontaneous inspiration and is all mechanical", or "There are no tunes in 12-tone music", and to them I say two things: first composers before Schoenberg, Hauer and Ives used tone rows, including rock star forerunner Franz Liszt; second, Schoenberg found that his way of disciplining the language he inherited from Brahms and Wagner by tightening things up and repeating pitches as little of possible had spontaneously been leading towards his 12-tone method, so composing in it became automatic; and thirdly, his serial works are FULL of tunes: try the Piano Concerto; discover the final cadenza in the Violin Concerto, where he states the row, then re-states it upside down: it's a great singalong! Zappa had his musicians playing tone rows in The Mothers of Invention, so even rock music afficionados are intelligent enough to be able to appreciate them!

That's three things, by the way.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

a whole concert of lachenmann and ferneyhough

each!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Nothing much that is genuinely new in terms of "expanding the permissible in the empire of sound", as Debussy is said to have said to Stravinsky after hearing "The Rite", seems to be happening with the stuff of music, which for me as I near 70 is the good old dependable chromatic scale with its 12 tones.

You desperately need to be nearer to Huddersfield, S_A.

[Serial_Apologist]

You desperately need to be nearer to Huddersfield, S_A.

Eh oop lad! My ex-next doors moved to Huddersfield, despite my warning them that there's no culture in't north. They love it there.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

(Please don't spoil it and tell us that they're fans of Last of the Summer Wine! )

[eighthobstruction]

I see 'love' was in 'italics'....'....'

....eee they'll be reet for the Ali Lullas Kormas.....

[verismissimo]

A Haydn symphony cycle?

[verismissimo]

A Haydn symphony cycle?

Good diverse collection of orchestras and conductors/directors. Would be fab.

[seabright]

The Proms Premieres of Respighi's "Brazilian Impressions" and "Metamorphoseon," plus his "Toccata" for Piano and Orchestra, and the Piano Concerto in A minor, and above all his "Church Windows" for the hugely spectacular organ solo in the finale ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY1iFC5hzmw

[Barbirollians]

I see Martha Argerich is down to play the Liszt 1 with Barenboim and the West Divan orchestra in Berlin next August - as they are regular fixtures at the Proms might we hope for the return of the great Martha - missing from the Proms for a few years now .