Proms 2017

[Barbirollians]

Is there a thread this year with snippets of information as to who will be playing at this year's Proms e.g touring orchestra's schedules . I can't see one ?

[french frank]

There is now … thank you.

[Barbirollians]

Anyone got any news ?

[french frank]

Anyone got any news ?

Disappointingly, when you click on Proms by Date it's still 2016

[Barbirollians]

Disappointingly, when you click on Proms by Date it's still 2016

20th April is not far away when the Proms programme is released . Normally ,there seems to be some snippets about - bluestateprommer as I recall has often been a source .

[Cockney Sparrow]

I haven't noticed any snippets.

MESSAGE TO BBC MARKETING as to the Proms:
1. I have planned my holiday dates.**
2. I've planned my visit(s) to Glyndebourne and Edinburgh (** Like the Royal Op H - months ahead).
3. The big publicity push is no doubt necessary to generate enough interest from those not especially oriented to the Proms (whilst we who are / should be are not taken into account)
4. Once I've crossed out the n/a dates on the very helpful pages produced here listing the Prom concerts, I can decide which Proms I'd like to go to.
5. Once I've got over waiting for an hour or two for the Proms planner to offer me dates (every year there is more to learn - don't use xx browser, clear the cache do/do not refresh the page - it goes on and on) I can decide whether the Albert Hall has offered me seats remotely near where I am prepared to pay good money to sit.
6. I might then buy tickets for one or two concerts.
7. It occurs to me that treated like this, no wonder a big marketing push is needed to bring in new audience every year.
8. For all those Proms I can't / won't go to its comforting to know I can "listen live" or again on iPlayer and that the broadcast engineering has improved in recent years.

(Got that off my chest. I might cut and paste it and send it to the controller....... And, just to say, with a 75 minute journey home on a probably crowded train given the operator's inability to run a full service, my days of Promming are almost certainly over. (And I know, I'm lucky to be only 75 minutes away from all the music that the capital offers) .

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Anyone got any news ?

I suspect that it will rather be more a case of the "same old same olds"!

(There! I've started the annual tradition of Proms moans. Anyone want to start off the "too much 'Pop'"/"wrong sort of New Music"/"not enough Early Music"/"yet again nothing by [enter name of favourite British Symphonist writing in the 1940s"/"I was waiting seventy-three hours to get onto the website"/"they clapped between movements" features? )

[BBMmk2]

Havergal Brian's Gothic again!! Mahler's 8th!! A cycle of RVW Symphonies, Shostakovich Symphonies and miscellaneous orchestral works, a cycle of Bax and Bantock's orchestral music!!!!

[EnemyoftheStoat]

Havergal Brian's Gothic again!! Mahler's 8th!! A cycle of RVW Symphonies, Shostakovich Symphonies and miscellaneous orchestral works, a cycle of Bax and Bantock's orchestral music!!!!

I want what you're on.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

. . . and that the broadcast engineering has improved in recent years.

I liked your list very much, apart from this bit, which I strongly dispute. There's more obvious compression now than there was in the 1970s.

[pastoralguy]

Hoping for a George Lloyd cycle split between the world's major orchestras and conductors...

[Cockney Sparrow]

I liked your list very much, apart from this bit, which I strongly dispute. There's more obvious compression now than there was in the 1970s.

I've abandoned FM in recent years - all via the iPlayer streams. iPlayer replay (etc,... ahem..) now. I don't think compression is so evident on the iPlayer? (Or maybe its just my cloth ears - in any case, I'm afraid there's no substitute for live, hence my bile at all the obstacles to going to a Prom I would really like to be present at, in a seat with a decent acoustic).

[maestro267]

I must admit this is the first year I'm not as excited about the Proms as I used to be. We're probably going to get much the same music as we always get every year, that we can listen to via recordings anyway. Obviously I'll take a look when the season is launched, but I'm not expecting anything too exciting.

And the sarcastic posts above ridiculing those of us who want a broader Proms repertoire are off-putting as well. And having to turn the radio down to maintain silence between movements. After years of trying to put up with it all, I've finally decided it might not be worth the hassle.

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.

[Bryn]

I liked your list very much, apart from this bit, which I strongly dispute. There's more obvious compression now than there was in the 1970s.

Maybe on FM (though only maybe), but except on very rare occasions such a the 'Gothic' and 'Glagolitic' Proms a couple of years or so back very little dynamic compression is evident via the iPlayer or DAB.

[pastoralguy]

And the sarcastic posts above ridiculing those of us who want a broader Proms repertoire are off-putting as well.

If these esoteric pieces can't be played at the Proms, where can they be played? (And don't forget there was a time when Mahler was seen as being niche music).