The 2016 Proms Season: what are your thoughts?

[Prommer]

But the point is - that's not saying much.

Well, perhaps true, but I remember 2007 especially because it was the year of THAT Mahler 3 - with Abbado and the Lucerners. Uncle Bernie will be unlikely to match that, even if someone has slipped something in his Horlicks.

I enjoyed the Wagner and Strauss years of 2013 and 2014, but in a much more limited way - given my interest in these two quite passable composers.

This season seems to have a broader, and more catholic base.

Speaking of which (the catholic bit), we Brucknerians shouldn't grumble this time round!

Might well be time to get myself a season ticket after a gap...

[Nick Armstrong]

How does one actually get to Peckham ?

I know a lot of people rave over Haitink's conducting of Mahler but I find him stodgy in the extreme.

Bernie in Mahler 3 caused me no little expense and inconvenience some years ago - I travelled from outside London to a performance (with the LSO I think) many years ago: the cumulative effect of his shaping of the work was overwhelming to me, and his pacing of the final peroration, with those striding timps, put me into a state of rather altered consciousness... which led me to float through the various forms of transport required after the concert, leaving all my belongings on the seat of an underground train. Money, cards, passport, driving licence &c. - all lost forever.

(You're not wrong about the tube, Ana )

[Richard Barrett]

Within the context of a classical music festival, a more appropriate tribute to David Bowie would surely have been either or both of the symphonies by Philip Glass based on Bowie's Heroes and Low albums (2 of Bowie's best IMO).

Two of Bowie's best, and two of the most pointless orchestral pieces ever committed to paper.

[teamsaint]

I know which one I'd prefer to go to. I know a lot of people rave over Haitink's conducting of Mahler but I find him stodgy in the extreme. Having said that if the Weekend Pass extends to include the Friday then that particular weekend is rather good IMO.

I now what some are saying about factoring in the cost of travel etc. For me, the diesel cost is around £70 return and so that's why I will go for Weekend Passes. I'm fortunate in tat I can also combine it with a visit to the mother.

Not sure about the external concert locations...Peckham, for instance. How does one actually get to Peckham ? especially if one does not like using the tube and assuming said Peckham is actually on the tube network.

travel nightmare.

there is only a train every 15 minutes, and journey time is up to 11 minutes, from London Bridge to either Queens Road or Peckham Rye.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I think there's less to 'complain about' on this particular score than there has been in the past.

That's certainly my first impression. But even last year, most of the complaining was whipped up by Suzy Klein's "snobs" accusation.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Not sure about the external concert locations...Peckham, for instance. How does one actually get to Peckham ? especially if one does not like using the tube and assuming said Peckham is actually on the tube network.

Oh dear!!!!!

The vast majority of the UK has much more difficulty in getting to the RAH, so my heart doesn't exactly bleed for those suffering the tiny inconvenience cited here.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

(You know I'll back you up 100% on this one! )

Oh no! Two of us setting a bad example.

[Pulcinella]

travel nightmare.

there is only a train every 15 minutes, and journey time is up to 11 minutes, from London Bridge to either Queens Road or Peckham Rye.

The guide lists all the buses that go there, but doesn't say where you can get them from!

[Ravensbourne]

How does one get to Peckham?

How does one actually get to Peckham ? especially if one does not like using the tube and assuming said Peckham is actually on the tube network.

Try this link.

[teamsaint]

The guide lists all the buses that go there, but doesn't say where you can get them from!

this may help.( assuming that buses that go from Peckham also go to it !!)

http://content.tfl.gov.uk/bus-route-maps/peckham-rye.pdf

presumably parking will be ok at the venue.

[Prommer]

Peckham? Wasn't he the footer chap?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I'd hate to think of what would happen to tube-oriented Londoners, if they were teleported to a rural spot 200 miles from the capital.

[PhilipT]

I've got the opposite problem! Lots of good stuff here. You Londoners don't know how lucky you are being able to just turn up on a whim and pay a fiver. I'd estimate a tcket cost of some £400 for me plus travel and hotels. With the cost spread out from May to September (hence 5 months salary coming in) it's a reasonable outlay but it's one I do year after year and I'm not seriously complaining because that's what I want to spend my hard earned cash on.

Umm, it's £6.00 now, P. Otherwise I'm with you completely: Over £500 already forked out for accommodation, with over £250 to go on tickets, not to mention half my annual holiday from the job that funds it all.

[MrGongGong]

Oh dear!!!!!

The vast majority of the UK has much more difficulty in getting to the RAH, so my heart doesn't exactly bleed for those suffering the tiny inconvenience cited here.

If by holding events in places that are slightly (I mean it's only PECKHAM FFS) "out of the way" means that the "heave ho" brigade spend their evenings lost in the depths of SE London then lets attach tracking devices to them and use their movements to generate a real-time score drawing on "Atlas Eclipticalis".

[vinteuil]

You Londoners don't know how lucky you are being able to just turn up on a whim and pay a fiver. I'd estimate a tcket cost of some £400 for me plus travel and hotels. With the cost spread out from May to September (hence 5 months salary coming in) it's a reasonable outlay but it's one I do year after year and I'm not seriously complaining because that's what I want to spend my hard earned cash on.

I'd hate to think of what would happen to tube-oriented Londoners, if they were teleported to a rural spot 200 miles from the capital.

... there are choices.

We have better weather than DracoM, I think - tho' he has more dramatic scenery.

We have opportunities for kulchur and other goodies denied to those in the mofussil - but we pay the price in terms of house prices...