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

[Suffolkcoastal]

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.

[Serial_Apologist]

Best suggestions yet, SC.

[EnemyoftheStoat]

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 ...

And for the second half of the concert?

[EdgeleyRob]

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.

What an interesting Proms season that would be sc.
Featuring only those composers.....INCLUDING George Lloyd.

[Tevot]

Hello there,

I would certainly like there to be a limit to the number of Mahler and Bruckner symphonies played per year. No more than say 3 per proms. The same for Shostakovich and Beethoven for that matter. Indeed sometimes less is more... Likewise after this year's Sibelius fest - a focus perhaps on his lesser known or performed orchestral pieces e.g. Spring Song, Oceanides, Nightride and Sunrise... might be in order?

I'd love a focus on two recent anniversary boys who perhaps received less exposure than they ought. Nielsen's 6 symphonies would be fascinating to hear in their entirety... and imho some of Andrzej Panufnik's works e.g. the piano and violin concertos or the sinfonia mistica deserve wider exposure at the Proms?

Why not some of Brahms' superb choral works? Or C20th works for vocalist and orchestra : Martin's 6 Monologues aus Jedermann, Lutoslawski's Les Espaces du Sommeil, Berio's Stanze spring to mind?

Some Mozart and Haydn symphonies long neglected - La Chasse for example? Lovely!

Throw in a little bit of spice... Some Ives, Varese, Nono and Maderna?

Stravinsky pieces other than Firebird, Petrushka and the Rite?

Symphonies by Honegger, Roussel, Schnittke, Henze? Restore works (some of them commissioned) but not heard in years at the Proms e.g. Tippett 3 and Hugh Wood's thrilling Symphony...?

How about a feature on the American Symphony - not merely Copland, Piston and Harris but Mennin, Diamond and Sessions?

Or indeed - one on the British Symphony? Nominations anyone?

Best Wishes,

Tevot

[Bryn]

A late night AMM Prom might open a few ears. Perhaps Eddie Prevost, John Tilbury and Keith Rowe could entice occasional participants Christan Wolff and Evan Parker to join them for such an event. Maybe they could even get Rohan de Saram to make a return visit.

[Beef Oven!]

A late night AMM Prom might open a few ears. Perhaps Eddie Prevost, John Tilbury and Keith Rowe could entice occasional participants Christan Wolff and Evan Parker to join them for such an event. Maybe they could even get Rohan de Saram to make a return visit.

[EdgeleyRob]

Or indeed - one on the British Symphony? Nominations anyone?

Best Wishes,

Tevot

Hi Tevot.

Go on then

British symphony Prom 1

Edmund Rubbra,Symphony No 10
Arnold Cooke,Symphony No 3

interval

Kenneth Leighton,Symphony No 2

British symphony Prom 2

William Alwyn,Symphony No 5
John Blackwood McEwen,A Solway Symphony

interval

George Dyson,Symphony in G

British symphony Prom 3

Havergal Brian,Symphony No 16
York Bowen,Symphony No 1

interval

Malcolm Arnold,Symphony No 9

Tell me when you want me to stop

[verismissimo]

A Haydn symphony cycle?

Norra lorra support for this. More fun than an English symphony series.

[EdgeleyRob]

Norra lorra support for this. More fun than an English symphony series.

A joint Haydn/British Symphony series wold work for me.

[Suffolkcoastal]

How about a prom with music by both Haydn brothers? F J Haydn's Masses don't get much of a look in these days either and even some of the 'Paris' symphonies seem to be less performed. Another 'classical' prom could include Mozart, F J Haydn, Vanhal & Dittersdorf together.

[teamsaint]

Chris Rouse. any or all of the symphonies.
A UK premiere for # 3 ?

[EdgeleyRob]

Haydn/British music Proms.

1

Burgess,A Manchester Overture
Haydn,Symphony No 92 'Oxford'

interval

Parry,Symphony No 2 'Cambridge'

2

Arnell,Dagenham Symphony
Bush,Symphony No 2 'Nottingham'

interval

Haydn,Symphony No 104 'London'

[Alison]

I think it was David Cairns who wrote of the special exhilaration of ending a concert with a Haydn symphony.

Well done Edge.

[EdgeleyRob]

I think it was David Cairns who wrote of the special exhilaration of ending a concert with a Haydn symphony.
Well done Edge.

Well said that man !