Proms 2017

[BBMmk2]

- and here:

https://soundcloud.com/tomcoult

I shall be providing similar links and intros to all the works by living composers in the weeks before their broadcasts.

Advanced many thanks for the predicted stirling work that you will be providing us, Ferney, in the next few weeks!

[Alison]

Advanced many thanks for the predicted stirling work that you will be providing us, Ferney, in the next few weeks!

Yes, I'm determined to be positive about Proms 17, and these extras can only help!

[Richard Tarleton]

For anyone interested, there's a long interview with David Pickard by Richard Morrison in today's Times (and yes you'll have to actually buy the Times to read it, unless you have already or are a subscriber ). He is clearly exasperated by aspects of the RAH.

[vinteuil]

For anyone interested, there's a long interview with David Pickard by Richard Morrison in today's Times...

... from which - " Pickard has also scheduled Beethoven’s Fidelio (July 21, with the feisty Australian tenor Stuart Skelton in the title role)"

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

2017 includes Saunders Molly's Song

OK - I've enjoyed the game of "Hunt the Saunders" that I've been playing all morning, but I give up. Can anyone tell me which Prom is this being performed in, please?

[vinteuil]

Saturday 2 Sep 2017
19:30
Proms at ... Wilton's Music Hall
Wilton's Music Hall
The world’s oldest surviving music hall provides an atmospheric backdrop for a staged performance of Peter Maxwell Davies’s Eight Songs for A Mad King. Sian Edwards conducts the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, with Marcus Farnsworth as soloist.
Programme
John Luther Adams
songbirdsongs(14 mins)
excerpts
Olivier Messiaen
Le merle noir(6 mins)
Rebecca Saunders
Molly's Song 3(11 mins)
Peter Maxwell Davies
Eight Songs for a Mad King(32 mins)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I'd seen the PMD, but not the rest of that programme. (And RS isn't in the alphabetical list of composers for the 2017 season.) Many, many thanks.

[Zucchini]

... (and yes you'll have to actually buy the Times to read it, unless you have already or are a subscriber ).

Not so. If you register you can have access to 2 articles a week from Times/ST current edition or archive.

[Richard Tarleton]

Not so. If you register you can have access to 2 articles a week from Times/ST current edition or archive.

Thank you for the correction, I didn't know that. I was just trying to forestall the usual "paywall" comments

[Prommer]

I have a wallchart in mine - looks like you had some bad luck there.

Yes: hard cheese, old man... as TT would have said!

[vinteuil]

Yes: hard cheese, old man... as TT would have said!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RZN6Y1mt2U

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RZN6Y1mt2U

A pedant comments: isn't that "T-T"?

[vinteuil]

... from which - " Pickard has also scheduled Beethoven’s Fidelio (July 21, with the feisty Australian tenor Stuart Skelton in the title role)"

... sadly, The Times has subsequently corrected this. I wd've paid good money to have seen Skelton as Leonore...

[Demetrius]

Many thanks for the statistics, Demetrius - I was going to do something similar this morning, but you've saved me the effort


Brilliant!!! I missed that - when is it on?


Beggur! I saw that the first time I looked through the programme, but missed on the "Brit-specific" reading.


Thou fib'st, sir! (It's 8 lines from the bottom, between Kate Whitley and Cheryl Frances-Hoad )

Interesting that the "British" number of hours, works, and composers has fallen so noticeably since Roger Wright left

Molly's Song has been found already, and I missed the toccata, mea culpa! Interestingly enough, there isn't too much of a drop in the number of composers, but in the playing time and in the number of works played. This is mostly due to the new commissions and new works, who tend to go to British musicians (which is understandable, the BBC should back up their home music scene, just as I would expect say MDR Kultur to back up the German one). But if you're not Elgar, Walton, or Vaughan Williams, it's a bad time to be dead and British. And even Walton and Vaughan Williams have seen better years in very recent memory.

Still, it's a good season. if future seasons shift the focus now and then, all is well. Has anyone seen the Saturday Matinees, though? Seems like they have been discontinued in favor of the Proms @ concerts.


Edit: and yes, the composers list is full of omissions; Erkki-Sven Tüür is missing as well, but is part of Prom 26 (Paavo Järvi. The Järvis seem to champion this composer)

[Prommer]

A pedant comments: isn't that "T-T"?

Excellent, at the back, you are awake!