Proms 2017

[bluestateprommer]

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.)

[mrbouffant]

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

[bluestateprommer]

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.

[Barbirollians]

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

[jayne lee wilson]

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

[bluestateprommer]

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.

[Stunsworth]

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.

[mrbouffant]

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:

https://www.beth-moxon.co.uk/concerts

[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:

https://eleanorrossmusic.co.uk/performance-diary/

[3]

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

Source:

http://www.rayfieldallied.com/events/nicholas-mulroy

[4]

Berlioz with JEG?

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

Source:

https://www.facebook.com/belcantosong/posts/1320590404619872

[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:

http://www.nicolacorbishley.com/performance-diary.html

[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:

https://www.elisabethkulman.com/calendar/

[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:

http://charlottebray.co.uk/works/orchestra/falling-in-the-fire/

[Bryn]

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.

[bluestateprommer]

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.

[mrbouffant]

My local Waterstones is selling the Guide. Naughty people.

[BBMmk2]

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).

[Anastasius]

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.

[mrbouffant]

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!...

[Prommer]

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!