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  • bluestateprommer
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    • Nov 2010
    • 3007

    Well, as some like to say in the USA:

    "But wait, there's....more!!!!"
    Namely, c/o this link:

    Saturday, August 19, 2017

    Schoenberg: Gurre-Lieder
    LSO & London Symphony Chorus, SSR

    (No clue about the soloists at this moment. We'll learn more in just over 2 weeks, of course.)

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    • mrbouffant
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      • Aug 2011
      • 207

      bsp, you rock!

      btw, how did you tie the Gurre-Lieder to a RAH performance? Is it assumed any performance of a big work like this in London in August is going to be a Proms performance?

      By the same token, can we deduce from the same website (and from the fact it is not listed on the soloist's own website engagements nor the orchestra's diary):

      Tuesday, August 15, 2017

      Alban Berg: Violin Concerto

      Scottish Chamber Orchestra , Conductor: Robin Ticciati, Christian Tethlaff, vln

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      • bluestateprommer
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        • Nov 2010
        • 3007

        Originally posted by mrbouffant View Post
        btw, how did you tie the Gurre-Lieder to a RAH performance? Is it assumed any performance of a big work like this in London in August is going to be a Proms performance?
        Yup, that's the idea. I work on the assumption that during The Proms, nothing else orchestrally will really be going on in London at either the Barbican or the Royal Festival Hall. That makes the RAH the default option for big orchestral concerts like this one.

        By the same token, can we deduce from the same website (and from the fact it is not listed on the soloist's own website engagements nor the orchestra's diary):

        Tuesday, August 15, 2017

        Alban Berg: Violin Concerto

        Scottish Chamber Orchestra , Conductor: Robin Ticciati, Christian Tethlaff, vln
        Good catch, and the answer here is yes also. I admit to dropping the ball on this one and blowing by it, probably because I saw "Scottish Chamber Orchestra" and subliminally assumed that this performance was in Edinburgh for the Festival there.

        There is one more semi-probable guess, from reading the NYOGB's site for their Summer 2017 tour. This is that scheduled program:

        Francisco Coll: Mural (UK premiere)
        Thomas Adès: Polaris
        Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

        NYOGB; Thomas Adès, conductor

        You can see that the NYOGB has concert dates at Snape Maltings and Symphony Hall, Birmingham on this tour. The NYOGB has had a regular gig at The Proms for several years running now, so it's not much of a stretch to speculate that they'll be back at the RAH this summer in early August. And while it is yet another go for Le sacre, I think the NYOGB kids will add extra energy to this rendition. Plus, the audience that night will be getting two contemporary works, so it's a fair 'price to pay' for Весна священная.

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        • Barbirollians
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          • Nov 2010
          • 11667

          I did note the Danny/Martha WEDO concert in Lucerne and one hopes that is coming our way

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          • jayne lee wilson
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            • Jul 2011
            • 10711

            If the Proms 2017 ​are going to be webcast in lossless FLAC, well......gamechanger.....!

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            • bluestateprommer
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              • Nov 2010
              • 3007

              Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
              I did note the Danny/Martha WEDO concert in Lucerne and one hopes that is coming our way
              Indeed; from scanning the WEDO's site as well as the Lucerne Festival's summer calendar, this is the collated WEDO's itinerary in the immediate vicinity of The Proms:

              August 1, 2, 5: Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires
              August 13: Waldbühne, Berlin
              August 16, 17: Lucerne Festival
              August 18, 20: Salzburg Festival

              So for Danny B. and the WEDO (and perhaps Martha A., if The Force is with The Proms, so to speak) to get to the RAH, it would have to be either between Buenos Aires and Berlin, or after Salzburg, IMHO.

              One other educated guess-type maybe-possibility-thingy is the CBSO and MG-T, where they have a tour concert in Lucerne on Sunday, September 3 with this program:

              Pēteris Vasks: Cantabile for string orchestra
              Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85
              Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44

              Gautier Capuçon, cello
              City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
              Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, conductor

              It's not difficult to imagine a "stopover" at the RAH by the CBSO and MG-T on the way to Lucerne.

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              • Stunsworth
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                • Nov 2010
                • 1553

                Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post
                If the Proms 2017 ​are going to be webcast in lossless FLAC, well......gamechanger.....!
                The trial says that it's going to be available for 5 months, so that puts us into September. Hopefully it will continue after that.
                Steve

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                • mrbouffant
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                  • Aug 2011
                  • 207

                  Some more idle Googling reveals the following:

                  [1]

                  Glyndebourne are bringing some Mozart in late August:

                  August 28, 2017
                  Mozart:La clemenza di Tito
                  BBC Proms
                  Royal Albert Hall,
                  London, England

                  Source:


                  [2]

                  Early August Mussorgsky:

                  August 2017
                  Sunday 6th, time tba
                  Ensemble in Mussorgsky’s ‘Khovanshchina’
                  BBC Singers & BBC Symphony Orchestra
                  BBC Proms
                  Royal Albert Hall

                  Source:


                  [3]

                  J.S.Bach St John Passion (I think)
                  20 Aug 2017 | BBC Proms / SJP
                  BBC Proms - Royal Albert Hall

                  Source:


                  [4]

                  Berlioz with JEG?

                  BBC PROMS 2017 – La damnation de Faust with JE Gardiner August 2017

                  Source:
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                  [5]

                  1 August 2017
                  Handel Israel in Egypt
                  Choir of the Enlightenment
                  Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, William Christie
                  Royal Albert Hall, BBC Proms

                  Source:


                  [6]

                  18 Aug 2017
                  Gustav Mahler: Symphony no. 2
                  19:30 BBC Proms London - Royal Albert Hall
                  Live on Radio 3
                  Elizabeth Watts, soprano
                  Elisabeth Kulman, alto
                  BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
                  Conductor: Sakari Oramo

                  Source:


                  [7]

                  New 'Cello Concerto by Charlotte Bray

                  Duration 21’
                  Instrumentation3333, 4331, timpani, 3 percussion, harp, solo violoncello, strings
                  First Performance 14 August 2017, Royal Albert Hall, London; Guy Johnston cello, BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo
                  Commissioned by BBC Radio 3

                  Source:
                  Last edited by mrbouffant; 10-04-17, 19:45.

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                  • Bryn
                    Banned
                    • Mar 2007
                    • 24688

                    Originally posted by mrbouffant View Post
                    Some more idle Googling reveals the following:

                    [1]

                    Glyndebourne are bringing some Mozart in late August:

                    August 28, 2017
                    Mozart:La clemenza di Tito
                    BBC Proms
                    Royal Albert Hall,
                    London, England
                    With Robin Ticciati waving a stick at it.

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                    • bluestateprommer
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                      • Nov 2010
                      • 3007

                      Originally posted by mrbouffant View Post
                      Some more idle Googling reveals the following:

                      [4] Berlioz with JEG?

                      BBC PROMS 2017 – La damnation de Faust with JE Gardiner August 2017

                      Source:
                      https://www.facebook.com/belcantoson...20590404619872
                      Very likely, since the Berlioz Festival in France this summer features this event on August 30:

                      Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust

                      Ann Hallenberg, mezzo-soprano (Marguerite)
                      Michael Spyres, tenor (Faust)
                      Laurent Naouri, bass-baritone (Mephistopheles)
                      Ashley Riches, bass-baritone (Brander)

                      Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
                      Monteverdi Choir
                      National Youth Choir of Scotland
                      Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

                      Given the other information to date, the most likely Proms date would be either August 29 or August 27. August 29 sounds totally insane, because the artists would have to catch a ridiculously early flight to France the morning of the 30th, to get to the hall in France in time for the performance (which may explain why the Berlioz Festival concert starts at 9 PM). However, of course, "totally insane" doesn't mean wrong, necessarily. I hope that it's the 27th, given a choice.

                      The Charlotte Bray note, however, is incorrect. But that is the fault of CB's own website, for giving the wrong year for the premiere of her cello concerto. That was at last year's Proms on August 14, 2016.

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                      • mrbouffant
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                        • Aug 2011
                        • 207

                        My local Waterstones is selling the Guide. Naughty people.

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                        • BBMmk2
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                          • Nov 2010
                          • 20908

                          Originally posted by bluestateprommer View Post
                          Very likely, since the Berlioz Festival in France this summer features this event on August 30:

                          Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust

                          Ann Hallenberg, mezzo-soprano (Marguerite)
                          Michael Spyres, tenor (Faust)
                          Laurent Naouri, bass-baritone (Mephistopheles)
                          Ashley Riches, bass-baritone (Brander)

                          Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
                          Monteverdi Choir
                          National Youth Choir of Scotland
                          Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

                          Given the other information to date, the most likely Proms date would be either August 29 or August 27. August 29 sounds totally insane, because the artists would have to catch a ridiculously early flight to France the morning of the 30th, to get to the hall in France in time for the performance (which may explain why the Berlioz Festival concert starts at 9 PM). However, of course, "totally insane" doesn't mean wrong, necessarily. I hope that it's the 27th, given a choice.

                          The Charlotte Bray note, however, is incorrect. But that is the fault of CB's own website, for giving the wrong year for the premiere of her cello concerto. That was at last year's Proms on August 14, 2016.
                          Looking forward to this. I hope the sound for The Sixteen Choir/Harry Christophers will be better this year than last(if they will be performing).
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                          • Anastasius
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                            • Mar 2015
                            • 1842

                            So the weekend Aug 18th/19th/ looking to be a massed choral event (just glad that it's not a German orchestra playing the Mahler 2). Wonder what choral feast is in store for Sunday ? Berlioz Grande Messe ? Mind you they did that combo a couple of years back.
                            Fewer Smart things. More smart people.

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                            • mrbouffant
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                              • Aug 2011
                              • 207

                              Originally posted by Anastasius View Post
                              So the weekend Aug 18th/19th/ looking to be a massed choral event (just glad that it's not a German orchestra playing the Mahler 2). Wonder what choral feast is in store for Sunday ? Berlioz Grande Messe ? Mind you they did that combo a couple of years back.
                              Sunday 20th Aug? Quite a lot going on that day!...

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                              • Prommer
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                                • Dec 2010
                                • 1258

                                Originally posted by mrbouffant View Post
                                My local Waterstones is selling the Guide. Naughty people.
                                This is as traditional a feature as any... Hunt the shop which ignores/knows not the embargo!

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