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Bit of a write-off one so far, though...Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostWell - it is Spring!Comment
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You did mean from before 1600, didn't you?Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostComment
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Has anyone found a link to a 2017 season listing which doesn't require you to click "Show More Information" for every single concert to get concise and complete details?
(My favourite bit of hyperbolic prose so far is the alleged "sprawling beauty" of Hindemith's Mathis der Maler. I can't work out whether that's meant to be a warning or a recommendation...)
In previous years such a link has always existed, but unless I'm too busy doing a Victor Meldrew impression to calm down enough to find it, I can't find it.
As I have a quaint wish to know who is playing what and when they're going to do it - without having to click "Show More Information" 74 times - I've used some bodgy programming skills and quite a lot of typing to get at said info for the main RAH concerts. As they might be useful to others, they are included below, hopefully in a way that doesn't render as a 1000 line message. It's a best effort which almost certainly contains errors - user beware.
Mods - I have a vague unease that you may need to remove these, in which case, understood.
Proms 1-25
Code:P1 Friday 14 July 2017, 7:30pm Tom Coult: St John’s Dance c5’ Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor 36’ interval John Adams: Harmonium 33’ Igor Levit piano BBC Proms Youth Choir BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra Edward Gardner conductor =========================================== P2 Saturday 15 July 2017, 7:30pm Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor 33’ interval Elgar: Symphony No. 1 in A flat major 52’ Lisa Batiashvili violin Staatskapelle Berlin Daniel Barenboim conductor =========================================== P3 Sunday 16 July 2017, 3:45pm Mozart: Symphony No. 38 in D major, ‘Prague’ Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C major Isabelle Faust violin Chamber Orchestra of Europe Bernard Haitink conductor =========================================== P4 Sunday 16 July 2017, 7:45pm Sir Harrison Birtwistle: Deep Time 25’ interval Elgar: Symphony No. 2 in E flat major 56’ Staatskapelle Berlin Daniel Barenboim conductor =========================================== P5 Monday 17 July 2017, 7:30pm Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 in C major 21’ Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor 33’ interval Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E minor 57’ Behzod Abduraimov piano BBC National Orchestra of Wales Thomas Søndergård conductor =========================================== P6 Tuesday 18 July 2017, 7:00pm Shostakovich: October 12’ Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor 39’ interval Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D major 44’ Nicola Benedetti violin BBC National Orchestra of Wales Thomas Søndergård conductor =========================================== P7 Wednesday 19 July 2017, 7:30pm Rebel: Les élémens – Le cahos 7’ Pascal Dusapin: Outscape 28’ interval Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique 50’ Alisa Weilerstein cello BBC Symphony Orchestra Joshua Weilerstein conductor =========================================== P8 Thursday 20 July 2017, 7:30pm John Williams: Unspecified BBC Concert Orchestra Keith Lockhart conductor =========================================== P9 Friday 21 July 2017, 7:30pm Beethoven: Fidelio 108’ (concert performance; sung in German) There will be one interval Stuart Skelton Florestan Ricarda Merbeth Leonore Brindley Sherratt Rocco Louise Alder Marzelline Benjamin Hulett Jaquino Detlef Roth Don Pizarro David Soar Don Fernando Orfeón Donostiarra BBC Philharmonic Juanjo Mena conductor =========================================== P10 Saturday 22 July 2017, 7:30pm Strauss: Metamorphosen 24’ Tom Service and Nicholas Collon introduce Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, with live excerpts 25’ interval Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, ‘Eroica’ 47’ Tom Service presenter Aurora Orchestra Nicholas Collon conductor =========================================== P11 Sunday 23 July 2017, 2:00pm Programme to include music by Beethoven, Copland, Elgar, Mozart, Respighi and Ravi Shankar Kathryn Lewek soprano Jess Gillam saxophone Ten Pieces Children’s Choir Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Jessica Cottis conductor =========================================== P12 Sunday 23 July 2017, 6:00pm Programme to include music by Beethoven, Copland, Elgar, Mozart, Respighi and Ravi Shankar Kathryn Lewek soprano Jess Gillam saxophone Ten Pieces Children’s Choir Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Jessica Cottis conductor =========================================== P13 Monday 24 July 2017, 7:30pm Trad., arr. Henry Wood: The National Anthem 3’ Berlioz: Overture ‘Le carnaval romain’ 9’ Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor 34’ interval Elgar: Overture ‘Cockaigne (In London Town)’ 14’ Walton:Façade Suite No. 1; Suite No. 2 – Popular Song 14’ Holst: The Perfect Fool – ballet music 11’ Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring 6’ Britten: The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra 18’ Beatrice Rana piano BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Andrew Davis conductor =========================================== P14 Tuesday 25 July 2017, 6:30pm Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 9 in E minor 34’ interval Holst: The Planets 50’ CBSO Youth Chorus (female voices) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra John Wilson conductor =========================================== P15 Tuesday 25 July 2017, 10:15pm Scott Walker: Unspecified Jarvis Cocker John Grant Heritage Orchestra Jules Buckley conductor =========================================== P16 Wednesday 26 July 2017, 7:30pm Liszt: Hamlet 10’ Julian Anderson: Piano Concerto c25’ interval Liszt: From the Cradle to the Grave 14’ Mussorgsky, orch. Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition 34’ Steven Osborne piano BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Ilan Volkov conductor =========================================== P17 Thursday 27 July 2017, 7:30pm Mark Simpson: The Immortal 34’ interval Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, ‘Pathétique’ 46’ Christopher Purves baritone London Voices Crouch End Festival Chorus BBC Philharmonic Juanjo Mena conductor =========================================== P18 Friday 28 July 2017, 7:30pm Korngold: The Sea Hawk – overture 6’ Anders Hillborg: Sirens 33’ interval Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade 45’ Hannah Holgersson soprano Ida Falk Winland soprano BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra James Gaffigan conductor =========================================== P19 Saturday 29 July 2017, 12:00pm Programme to include music by Rimsky-Korsakov, Rossini and Johann Strauss II, as well as Pharrell Williams’s ‘Happy’ and the ‘Doctor Who’ theme. Andy Pidcock presenter/musician BBC National Orchestra of Wales Grant Llewellyn conductor/presenter =========================================== P20 Saturday 29 July 2017, 7:30pm Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor 49’ interval David Sawer: The Greatest Happiness Principle 14’ Haydn: Symphony No. 99 in E flat major 25’ Stephen Hough piano BBC Philharmonic Mark Wigglesworth conductor =========================================== P21 Sunday 30 July 2017, 7:00pm Sir James MacMillan: A European Requiem 43’ interval Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, ‘Choral’ 65’ Erin Wall soprano Sonia Prina mezzo-soprano Iestyn Davies counter-tenor Simon O’Neill tenor Jacques Imbrailo baritone Alexander Vinogradov bass CBSO Chorus BBC National Chorus of Wales BBC National Orchestra of Wales Xian Zhang conductor =========================================== P22 Monday 31 July 2017, 7:30pm Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610 100’ There will be no interval Giuseppina Bridelli soprano Eva Zaïcik mezzo-soprano Emiliano Gonzalez Toro tenor Magnus Staveland tenor Virgile Ancely bass Renaud Bres bass Geoffroy Buffière bass Pygmalion Raphaël Pichon director =========================================== P23 Tuesday 1 August 2017, 7:30pm Handel: Israel in Egypt (original 1739 version) 129’ There will be one interval Anna Devin soprano Rowan Pierce soprano Christopher Lowrey counter-tenor Jeremy Budd tenor Dingle Yandell bass-baritone Callum Thorpe bass Choir of the Age of Enlightenment Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment William Christie conductor =========================================== P24 Wednesday 2 August 2017, 7:00pm JS Bach, arr. Stravinsky: Canonic Variations on ‘Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her’, BWV 769 11’ Ravel: Shéhérazade 17’ interval John Adams: Naive and Sentimental Music 49’ Marianne Crebassa mezzo-soprano Philharmonia Voices Philharmonia Orchestra Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor =========================================== P25 Wednesday 2 August 2017, 10:15pm Schütz: Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren, SWV 41 8’ Schütz: Nicht uns, Herr, sondern deinem Namen, SWV 43 6’ Schütz: Danket dem Herren, denn er ist freundlich, SWV 45 7’ JS Bach: Cantata No. 79 ‘Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild’ 15’ JS Bach: Cantata No. 80 ‘Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott’ 25’ There will be no interval Monteverdi Choir English Baroque Soloists Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor
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Proms 26-50Code:=========================================== P26 Thursday 3 August 2017, 7:30pm Erkki-Sven Tüür: Flamma 16’ Mozart: Sinfonia concertante in E flat major 30’ interval Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major 45’ Vilde Frang violin Lawrence Power viola Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen Paavo Järvi conductor =========================================== P27 Friday 4 August 2017, 7:30pm Ella & Dizzy: A Centenary Tribute There will be one interval Dianne Reeves singer James Morrison trumpet BBC Concert Orchestra John Mauceri conductor =========================================== P28 Saturday 5 August 2017, 7:30pm Francisco Coll: Mural 24’ Thomas Adès: Polaris 14’ interval Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring 34’ National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain Thomas Adès conductor =========================================== P29 Sunday 6 August 2017, 6:00pm Mussorgsky, orch. Shostakovich: Khovanshchina 190’ (concert performance; sung in Russian) There will be two intervals Ante Jerkunica Ivan Khovansky Christopher Ventris Andrey Khovansky Vsevolod Grivnov Golitsin Elena Maximova Marfa Ain Anger Dosifey George Gagnidze Shaklovity Jennifer Rhys-Davies Susanna Norbert Ernst Scribe Vlada Borovko Emma Colin Judson Kuzka Schola Cantorum of The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School Tiffin Boys’ Choir BBC Singers Slovak Philharmonic Choir BBC Symphony Orchestra Semyon Bychkov conductor Paul Curran stage director =========================================== P30 Monday 7 August 2017, 7:30pm Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C major 26’ Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten – Symphonic Fantasy 21’ interval Prokofiev: Seven, They Are Seven 8’ Walton: Belshazzar’s Feast 36’ David Butt Philip tenor James Rutherford baritone National Youth Choir of Great Britain Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Kirill Karabits conductor =========================================== P31 Tuesday 8 August 2017, 7:30pm Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust 125’ (sung in French) There will be one interval Michael Spyres Faust Ann Hallenberg Marguerite Ashley Riches Brander Trinity Boys Choir Monteverdi Choir National Youth Choir of Scotland Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor =========================================== P32 Wednesday 9 August 2017, 7:00pm Britten: Ballad of Heroes 17’ Brian Elias: Cello Concerto c25’ interval Purcell, arr. Elgar: Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei 7’ Elgar: ‘Enigma’ Variations 30’ Toby Spence tenor Natalie Clein cello BBC National Chorus of Wales BBC National Orchestra of Wales Ryan Wigglesworth conductor =========================================== P33 Thursday 10 August 2017, 7:30pm Sibelius: Karelia Suite 15’ Sibelius: Luonnotar 9’ Grieg: Peer Gynt – excerpts 21’ interval Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor 22’ Hindemith: Symphony ‘Mathis der Maler’ 24’ Lise Davidsen soprano Alban Gerhardt cello BBC Philharmonic John Storgårds conductor =========================================== P34 Friday 11 August 2017, 2:00pm Rodgers & Hammerstein: Oklahoma! (semi-staged) 180’ There will be one interval Cast TBA John Wilson Orchestra John Wilson conductor Rachel Kavanaugh stage director =========================================== P35 Friday 11 August 2017, 7:30pm Rodgers & Hammerstein: Oklahoma! (semi-staged) 180’ There will be one interval Cast TBA John Wilson Orchestra John Wilson conductor Rachel Kavanaugh stage director =========================================== P36 Saturday 12 August 2017, 7:30pm Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B minor, ‘Unfinished’ 26’ interval Mahler, compl. Cooke: Symphony No. 10 74’ BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Thomas Dausgaard conducto =========================================== P37 Sunday 13 August 2017, 6:00pm Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor 41’ interval Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 in E minor 60’ Alexander Gavrylyuk piano Latvian Radio Choir BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Thomas Dausgaard conductor =========================================== P38 Sunday 13 August 2017, 9:45pm Rachmaninov: All-Night Vigil (Vespers) 63’ There will be no interval Latvian Radio Choir Sigvards Klava director =========================================== P39 Monday 14 August 2017, 7:30pm Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune 10’ Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major 22’ interval Mark-Anthony Turnage: Hibiki 50’ Inon Barnatan piano Sally Matthews soprano Mihoko Fujimura mezzo-soprano Finchley Children’s Music Group New London Children’s Choir BBC Symphony Orchestra Kazushi Ono conductor =========================================== P40 Tuesday 15 August 2017, 7:00pm Brahms: Tragic Overture 14’ Berg: Violin Concerto 27’ interval Thomas Larcher: Nocturne – Insomnia 15’ Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, ‘Rhenish’ 32’ Christian Tetzlaff violin Scottish Chamber Orchestra Robin Ticciati conductor =========================================== P41 Tuesday 15 August 2017, 10:15pm Ravi Shankar & Philip Glass: Passages 65’ Anoushka Shankar sitar Britten Sinfonia Karen Kamensek conductor =========================================== P42 Wednesday 16 August 2017, 7:30pm Saint-Saëns: La princesse jaune – overture 7’ Delibes: Lakmé – ballet music 6’ Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, ‘Egyptian’ 25’ interval Franck: Les Djinns 12’ Lalo: Namouna – Suites Nos. 1 & 2 (excerpts) 22’ Saint-Saëns: Samson and Delilah – Bacchanal 8’ Cédric Tiberghien piano Les Siècles François-Xavier Roth conductor =========================================== P43 Thursday 17 August 2017, 6:30pm Falla: El amor brujo 24’ Lalo: Symphonie espagnole 34’ interval Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, ‘Organ’ 36’ Stéphanie d’Oustrac mezzo-soprano Joshua Bell violin Cameron Carpenter organ Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Charles Dutoit conductor =========================================== P44 Thursday 17 August 2017, 10:15pm Michael Gordon: Big Space c15’ David Lang: Sunray 12’ Julia Wolfe: Big Beautiful Dark and Scary 9’ Philip Glass: Glassworks – Closing 6’ Louis Andriessen: Workers Union 17’ There will be no interval BBC Proms Youth Ensemble Bang on a Can All-Stars Rumon Gamba conductor =========================================== P45 Friday 18 August 2017, 7:30pm Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor, ‘Resurrection’ 85’ Elizabeth Watts soprano Elisabeth Kulman mezzo-soprano The Bach Choir BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra Sakari Oramo conductor =========================================== P46 Saturday 19 August 2017, 7:30pm Schoenberg: Gurrelieder 99’ There will be no interval Eva-Maria Westbroek Tove Simon O’Neill Waldemar Karen Cargill Wood-Dove Peter Hoare Klaus the Fool Christopher Purves Peasant Thomas Quasthoff Speaker CBSO Chorus Orfeó Català London Symphony Chorus London Symphony Orchestra Sir Simon Rattle conductor =========================================== P47 Sunday 20 August 2017, 1:00pm Programme to include: Cheryl Frances-Hoad: Chorale Prelude ‘Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott’ c3’ Jonathan Dove: Chorale Prelude ‘Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam’ c3’ Daniel Saleeb: Chorale Prelude ‘Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort’ c3’ Toccata on ‘Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort’ 5’ There will be no interval William Whitehead organ Robert Quinney organ =========================================== P48 Sunday 20 August 2017, 3:30pm ‘The story of the Crucifixion told through five centuries of music’ There will be no interval BBC Singers City of London Sinfonia Sofi Jeannin conductor =========================================== P49 Sunday 20 August 2017, 7:45pm JS Bach: St John Passion 130’ There will be one interva Nicholas Mulroy Evangelist Matthew Brook Jesus Sophie Bevan soprano Tim Mead counter-tenor Andrew Tortise tenor Konstantin Wolff bass Dunedin Consort John Butt harpsichord/director =========================================== P50 Monday 21 August 2017, 7:30pm Beethoven: Overture ‘Leonore’ No. 3 14’ Stravinsky: Violin Concerto 22’ interval Gerald Barry: Canada c10’ Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor 31’ Leila Josefowicz violin Allan Clayton tenor City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conductor
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Proms 51-74
Code:=========================================== P51 Tuesday 22 August 2017, 7:30pm Sibelius: Scènes historiques – Suite No. 1 18’ Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor 24’ interval Elgar–Payne: Symphony No. 3 58’ Javier Perianes piano BBC Symphony Orchestra Sakari Oramo conductor =========================================== P52 Wednesday 23 August 2017, 7:30pm Dvorak: Symphony No 9 - Beyond The Score interval Dvorak: Symphony No 9 Henry Goodman actor Rodney Earl Clarke bass-baritone Hallé Sir Mark Elder conductor Gerard McBurney creative director Mike Tutaj projection design =========================================== P53 Thursday 24 August 2017, 7:30pm 'Beneath the underdog: Charles Mingus revisited' There will be one interval Shabaka Hutchings saxophones Christian Scott trumpet Kandace Springs singer Metropole Orkest Jules Buckley conductor =========================================== P54 Friday 25 August 2017, 6:30pm Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major 42’ interval Respighi: Fountains of Rome 16’ Respighi: Pines of Rome 23’ Leonidas Kavakos violin Orchestra of La Scala, Milan Riccardo Chailly conductor =========================================== P55 Friday 25 August 2017, 10:15pm Music from India and Pakistan This performance will be in three 45-minute sets with no interval Pandit Budhaditya Mukherjee sitar Soumen Nandy tabla Kumaresh Rajagopalan Carnatic violin Jayanthi Kumaresh Saraswati veena Anantha R. Krishnan mridangam Fareed Ayaz, Abu Muhammad Qawwal & Brothers =========================================== P56 Saturday 26 August 2017, 7:30pm Hussite Chorale ‘Ktož jsú Boží bojovníci’ (You Who Are Warriors of God) 2’ Smetana: Má vlast – Tábor; Blaník 27’ Martinů: Field Mass 26’ interval Dvořák: Hussite Overture 14’ Janáček: The Excursions of Mr Brouček – Song of the Hussites 4’ Suk: Prague 25’ Svatopluk Sem baritone BBC Singers (men’s voices) BBC Symphony Orchestra Jakub Hrůša conductor =========================================== P57 Sunday 27 August 2017, 3:00pm 'Swing No End' There will be one interval Clare Teal singer/presenter Guy Barker Big Band Guy Barker bandleader Winston Rollins Big Band Winston Rollins bandleader =========================================== P58 Sunday 27 August 2017, 7:45pm Bernstein: On the Waterfront – symphonic suite 22’ Copland: Lincoln Portrait 15’ interval Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor 45’ Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Louis Langrée conductor =========================================== P59 Monday 28 August 2017, 7:00pm Mozart: La clemenza di Tito 132’ (semi-staged; sung in Italian) There will be one interval Steve Davislim Titus Alice Coote Vitellia Joélle Harvey Servilia Kate Lindsey Sextus Anna Stéphany Annius Clive Bayley Publius Glyndebourne Festival Opera Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Robin Ticciati conductor =========================================== P60 Tuesday 29 August 2017, 7:30pm Stravinsky: The Firebird – suite (revised version, 1919) 21’ Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor (revised version, 1941) 24’ interval Shostakovich: Symphony No. 12 in D minor, ‘The Year 1917’ 41’ Leif Ove Andsnes piano Oslo Philharmonic Vasily Petrenko conductor =========================================== P61 Wednesday 30 August 2017, 7:00pm Andrea Tarrodi: Liguria 12’ Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915 16’ interval Strauss: Daphne – Transformation Scene, ‘Ich komme – ich komme’ 11’ Nielsen: Symphony No. 2, ‘The Four Temperaments’ 33’ Renée Fleming soprano Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra Sakari Oramo conductor =========================================== P62 Wednesday 30 August 2017, 10:15pm Hannah Kendall: The Spark Catchers c10’ Dvořák: Rondo in G minor, Op. 94 7’ Popper, orch. M. Schlegel: Hungarian Rhapsody, Op. 68 10’ George Walker: Lyric for Strings 6’ Handel: Arias 15’ Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol 16’ There will be no interval Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello Jeanine De Bique soprano Chineke! Kevin John Edusei conductor =========================================== P63 Thursday 31 August 2017, 7:30pm Taneyev: Overture ‘The Oresteia’ 19’ Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 1 in F sharp minor 27’ interval Tchaikovsky: Manfred 53’ Kirill Gerstein piano BBC Symphony Orchestra Semyon Bychkov conductor =========================================== P64 Friday 1 September 2017, 6:30pm Wolfgang Rihm: In-Schrift 17’ interval Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D minor 65’ Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Daniele Gatti conductor =========================================== P65 Friday 1 September 2017, 10:15pm '50 Years of Soul' There will be no interval William Bell singer Eddie Floyd singer Steve Cropper guitar Jools Holland and His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra =========================================== P66 Saturday 2 September 2017, 7:30pm Haydn: Symphony No. 82 in C major, ‘The Bear’ 26’ interval Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G major 56’ Chen Reiss soprano Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Daniele Gatti conductor =========================================== P67 Sunday 3 September 2017, 1:00pm Mendelssohn: Overture ‘The Hebrides’ (‘Fingal’s Cave’) 10’ Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor 27’ interval Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in D major, ‘Reformation’ 27‘ Isabelle Faust violin Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Pablo Heras-Casado conductor =========================================== P68 Sunday 3 September 2017, 7:30pm Prokofiev: Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution 39’ Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 3 in E flat major 13’ interval Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor 49’ Denis Matsuev piano Mariinsky Chorus Mariinsky Orchestra Valery Gergiev conductor =========================================== P69 Monday 4 September 2017, 7:30pm John Adams: Lollapalooza 7’ Dvořák: Violin Concerto in A minor 33’ interval Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D major 56’ Anne-Sophie Mutter violin Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Manfred Honeck conductor =========================================== P70 Tuesday 5 September 2017, 7:30pm Missy Mazzoli: Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) 12’ Béla Bartók: Piano Concerto No 2 30’ interval Dvořák: Symphony No 8 in G major 36’ Jeremy Denk piano BBC Symphony Orchestra Karina Canellakis conductor =========================================== P71 Wednesday 6 September 2017, 7:00pm Stravinsky: Funeral Song 12’ arr. Stravinsky: Song of the Volga Boatmen 2’ Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major 22’ interval Britten: Russian Funeral 7’ Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 in G minor, ‘The Year 1905’ 65’ Alina Ibragimova violin London Philharmonic Orchestra Vladimir Jurowski conductor =========================================== P72 Thursday 7 September 2017, 6:30pm Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor 82’ Vienna Philharmonic Daniel Harding conductor =========================================== P73 Thursday 7 September 2017, 9:30pm JS Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier – Book 1 111’ There will be no interval Sir András Schiff piano =========================================== P74 Friday 8 September 2017, 7:30pm Brahms: Variations on the St Anthony Chorale 18’ Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 14 in E flat major 23’ interval Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major 40’ Emanuel Ax piano Vienna Philharmonic Michael Tilson Thomas conductor =========================================== P74 Saturday 9 September 2017, 7:15pm Lotta Wennäkoski: Flounce c5’ Kodály: Budavári Te Deum 21’ Sargent: An Impression on a Windy Day 7’ Sibelius: Finlandia (choral version) 8’ Wagner: Tristan and Isolde – Prelude and Liebestod 17’ interval John Adams: Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance 5’ Weill and Gershwin: Songs 15’ arr. Wood: Fantasia on British Sea-Songs 18’ Arne, arr. Sargent: Rule, Britannia! 5’ Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major 8’ Parry, orch. Elgar: Jerusalem 3’ The National Anthem 3’ Trad., arr. Thorpe Davie: Auld Lang Syne 2’ Nina Stemme soprano Lucy Crowe soprano Christine Rice mezzo-soprano Ben Johnson tenor John Relyea bass BBC Singers BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra Sakari Oramo conductor
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Yay .
Some Errki-Sven Tuur,
Excellent.
Hopefully.
Except I can't be there.
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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Andrew Slater has previously produced a fantastic one page guide which does the job to perfection.Originally posted by Simon B View Post
I usually print it out and carry it about my person.
Edit: Sorry SB, just realised what you have done there.
Great stuff, many thanks.Last edited by teamsaint; 21-04-17, 18:55.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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That be great idea. Wonder if Andrew Slater will do it again?Originally posted by teamsaint View PostDon’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750Comment
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Simon B above refers to the "hyperbolic prose" which is attached to practically every piece of music on offer, from the "mellow loveliness" of Vaughan Williams's 9th Symphony to the "frenzied rhythms and provocative harmonies" of the "Rite of Spring." One assumes someone in the Proms office was desperately trying to think up lots of descriptive phrases with the aid of Roget's Thesaurus!
I only question the continuing lack of a 'starter' for so many concerts, whether in the form of an overture or some other short piece. For example, Prom No. 2's short first half is just the 33-minute Sibelius Violin Concerto. What will happen, of course, is that after the first movement is over, the auditorium doors will be flung open so as to admit those late-comers delayed on the bus or the tube, or who had difficulty parking, and will have missed 15 minutes of Sibelius. A short piece of 6 or 7 minutes to start with would have given a 40-minute first half and allowed the late-comers to hear the whole work.
The same goes for the first halves of many other Proms, such as No. 14 with the 34-minute Vaughan Williams 9th. Again, a 6-minute overture or short piece would have warmed up both orchestra and audience and allowed the inevitable late-comers to be seated without having to miss the first movement of the symphony. That said, there are indeed a handful of overtures in the season (including Berlioz, Brahms and Saint-Saens) but I think more should be included next year, both for musical as well as practical reasons, ie: so as to spare a thought for those late arrivals!Comment
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good points, SB.Originally posted by seabright View Post
I wonder ( stopping short of being a real Bradshaw's nerd) what "last train home" issues people have with the Proms, and indeed other venues.
In my part of the world we are lucky, with trains leaving Waterloo until midnight and sometimes beyond.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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Thanks, very useful, Simon. I can have a proper look now.Comment
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Pretty short opening concert ain't it?Comment
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Having been swearing this morning at the tedium of having to click for information on every concert, I, for one, am very much in your debt. Very useful indeed so many thanks, SimonOriginally posted by Simon B View PostComment
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