The 2016 Proms Season: what are your thoughts?

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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26524

    The 2016 Proms Season: what are your thoughts?

    Thought I'd get a thread ready for reactions once details of the season are released today.
    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

  • Tevot
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 1011

    #2
    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
    Thought I'd get a thread ready for reactions once details of the season are released today.
    Thought they'd been released early

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26524

      #3
      Originally posted by Tevot View Post
      Thought they'd been released early
      Not to everyone. Let's take today as the day for fact rather than speculation!
      "...the isle is full of noises,
      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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      • Pulcinella
        Host
        • Feb 2014
        • 10897

        #4
        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
        Thought I'd get a thread ready for reactions once details of the season are released today.

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        • mrbouffant
          Full Member
          • Aug 2011
          • 207

          #5
          The guide is up on the BBC website. WOOHOO. http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26524

            #6
            Originally posted by mrbouffant View Post
            The guide is up on the BBC website. WOOHOO. http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms


            At last there's a one-page event list...
            "...the isle is full of noises,
            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26524

              #7
              Classy Bruckner sequence in Proms 69, 70 & 71...
              "...the isle is full of noises,
              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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              • french frank
                Administrator/Moderator
                • Feb 2007
                • 30254

                #8
                Originally posted by Caliban View Post


                At last there's a one-page event list...
                Is it as good as Andrew's (assuming he was contemplating one this year)?
                It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                • bluestateprommer
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 3008

                  #9
                  At a quick first glance, this summer's Proms season actually looks pretty good. Nice balance of standard repertoire and 'buried treasure' (your own opinions on the latter will differ, of course), with more of the latter compared to last season, IMHO. (And no complete DSCH 10 [just the scherzo in the Ten Pieces Prom], thank goodness, wonderful as the symphony is, but it was long past time to give it a rest after so many consecutive/near-consecutive years of hearing it.) It's good to see the outreach to venues beyond the RAH and Cadogan Hall, perhaps a nod to such Proms in the 1970s.

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                  • french frank
                    Administrator/Moderator
                    • Feb 2007
                    • 30254

                    #10
                    Originally posted by bluestateprommer View Post
                    At a quick first glance, this summer's Proms season actually looks pretty good. Nice balance of standard repertoire and 'buried treasure' (your own opinions on the latter will differ, of course), with more of the latter compared to last season, IMHO. (And no complete DSCH 10 [just the scherzo in the Ten Pieces Prom], thank goodness, wonderful as the symphony is, but it was long past time to give it a rest after so many consecutive/near-consecutive years of hearing it.) It's good to see the outreach to venues beyond the RAH and Cadogan Hall, perhaps a nod to such Proms in the 1970s.
                    As usual, the BBC homes in on the Strictly and David Bowie concerts Plus ça change …

                    The 2016 Proms line-up includes music by David Bowie, a Strictly Come Dancing theme night and a concert in a car park.
                    It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                      Gone fishin'
                      • Sep 2011
                      • 30163

                      #11
                      A more attractive programme for me than last year's unimaginative parade. There are quite a few concerts I wouldn't mind going to (including that Bruckner sequence Cali points out) - and the "weekend" of 29th July - 1st August is making me wonder about sorting out a trip to London for that lot. (But I bet Haitink Mahler #3 has sold out already!)


                      And ... I didn't notice last year, but are ticket prices notably higher this year?

                      PS: plus a booking fee of 2% of the total cost AND £2 PER TICKET!!!!!! - taking my initial cost of £46 up to £61.50.

                      I'll tune into Radio3.
                      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                      • antongould
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 8780

                        #12
                        Not that many will believe me but I was listening to the Galina Ustvolskaya piece only yesterday- an Alphabet Associtions discovery - she should shake P4 up a bit ....

                        Only had time for a swift glance but it looks as if the ER Northerners bus trip might be off for another year ....

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                        • P. G. Tipps
                          Full Member
                          • Jun 2014
                          • 2978

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                          Classy Bruckner sequence in Proms 69, 70 & 71...


                          Wonder if I should arrange a few days in London in early September as a nice little surprise for Mrs PGT ... ?

                          I'd have liked the first-half pairings to have been rather more imaginative, though ...

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                          • Tevot
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 1011

                            #14
                            My first reaction after a cursory glance is "wow". There's at least 15 concerts featuring large scale choral works or operas. Crikey - Alexander Nevsky followed by Boris Gudonov the next day and then the day after by a Haydn Mass and Faure's Requiem... Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and Choral Symphony featuring within the first fortnight... Rossini x 2, Bach's B Minor, The Makrupulos case ...

                            And heck the Dvorak Cello concerto coupled with Duke Bluebeard...

                            I'm in a state of disbelief bordering on euphoria.... This promises to be a vintage year surely?

                            Best Wishes,

                            Tevot

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                            • Simon B
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2010
                              • 779

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Caliban View Post


                              At last there's a one-page event list...
                              This http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/r938q9/p...etails=setlist is better for concision IMO as it mostly boils it down to just text.

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