Proms 2017

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Oh!


Beggur!

[maestro267]

Btw, how do we know the launch is on April 20th? Website doesn't say anything about the new season launch.

[EnemyoftheStoat]

Btw, how do we know the launch is on April 20th? Website doesn't say anything about the new season launch.

It was tweeted by the BBC Proms team on 20/3.

[Andrew Slater]

Also the Amazon website indicates that the Proms Guide is available from that date.

[Bryn]

Since I only ever Prom these days (I have only twice booked seats, once in 1966 for Varèse's Ecuatorial and Déserts, and then when I took my mother to hear Brendel in the Brahms 1st Piano Concerto in 1968), I will not be bothering with the Prospectus again. The online listing will suit me fine.

[makropulos]

Those of you who want the umpteenth performance of The Rite of Spring, any number of Beethoven, Mahler and Shostakovich symphonies, and La Mer, you've won.

But are you going to tell us what you do want? Bearing in mind that the RAH needs to attract a large audience to these concerts, who are the missing names you miss the most? (I agree, there are plenty). The more-or-less annual letters to the Telegraph (for at least the last 40 years) demanding a fair deal for Bax, Bantock et al is not the way forward for an international festival in a hall the size of the RAH. So - aside from living composers - which less-often performed composers could realistically be given more exposure at the Proms? (My own wish list could include the likes of Lili Boulanger, Honegger, Martinu, Myaskovsky, Suk, Varese, Weinberg and plenty more). But this "broader repertoire" at the Proms is, I think, quite a delicate balancing act since there are, obviously, commercial considerations to bear in mind too.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The more-or-less annual letters to the Telegraph (for at least the last 40 years) demanding a fair deal for Bax, Bantock et al is not the way forward for an international festival in a hall the size of the RAH.

That is true - and that is the only justifiable way in which Glock could be said to have "excluded" formerly frequently represented British composers from the Proms. He was the man who opened the Festival out to create a truly international Festival, and invited the great orchestras from Europe and America to give concerts. For some reason, these artists weren't greatly impressed by the works of the Brits, and wanted to perform Bruckner, Mahler and other more important and vivid (to them) repertoire.

Nevertheless, the Proms ought to be big enough to programme this inter-War British repertoire: and, to be fair to Roger Wright (and it's not often I have the just opportunity to say that!) he did make more room for it than Kenyon did before him.

[Ravensbourne]

Programme announced

It was tweeted by the BBC Proms team on 20/3.

And it's been on the Royal Albert Hall site for months:

We are delighted to announce that the BBC Proms will return to the Royal Albert Hall in 2017 for its 123rd season, running from Friday 14 July to Saturday 9 September.

Dates for your diary

• Thursday 20 April, 2pm
  Programme announced
  
  
• Thursday 11 May, 9am
  Season and weekend Promming passes on sale
  
  
• Saturday 13 May, 9am
  General booking opens

[kea]

I hope the cold-hearted atonal serialist plink-plonk mafia comes through to deliver a complete cycle of the orchestral music of Horatiu Radulescu (at least, that of it which will fit within the RAH and lasts less than 3 hours), the Bernard Parmegiani 90th birthday bash concert, and perhaps a Salvatore Sciarrino retrospective. I'm also looking forward to all the inane pop and film music concerts being replaced with Inuit throat singing, taonga pouru and gagaku.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I hope the cold-hearted atonal serialist plink-plonk mafia

As a paid-up member (with the tattoo) of the Squeaky Gate Yazuka, I object to our being marginalized and ignored yet again!

[ahinton]

As a paid-up member (with the tattoo) of the Squeaky Gate Yazuka

Sales of WD40 seem still to be on the increase!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Sales of WD40 seem still to be on the increase!

Oil say!

[ahinton]

Oil say!

Lubrication, lubrication, lubrication!

[kernelbogey]

Lubrication, lubrication, lubrication!

[bluestateprommer]

Anyone got any news ?

Yes, and it says something that one of the token Yankees here has to keep you lot in order on this issue . Here are the scheduled concerts for September 1 and 2 (c/o this link under "Concert calender"):

(A) Friday, September 1, 2017, 7:30 PM

Wolfgang Rihm: IN-SCHRIFT
Bruckner: Symphony No. 9

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Daniele Gatti. conductor

(B) Saturday, September 2, 2017, 7:30 PM

Haydn: Symphony No. 82 ('L'ours' / 'The Bear')
Mahler: Symphony No. 4

Chen Reiss, soprano
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Daniele Gatti, conductor

More in the realm of guess-work, with no backup sources whatsoever:
(a) It's a reasonable guess that John Adams may get a shout-out, since it's his 70th b-day year this year. Of course, the same could be said of Philip Glass, since it's his 80th, except that there was just a Total Immersion Day by the BBC SO recently, so maybe not.
(b) Daniel Barenboim is 75 this year, so one can guess that he will get a date or two this summer at the RAH. My guess, based on nothing but intuition, is with the WEDO.
(c) The John Wilson Orchestra will probably be back again, but I haven't the faintest idea with what program.
(d) I would also guess that Bernard Haitink will be back as well, fingers crossed.

PS: Just realized that the Wolfgang Rihm work falls in his 65th birthday year.