Prom 45 - 18.08.17: Mahler – ‘Resurrection’ Symphony

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

... such a good idea. I think we shd have a year of Proms with no Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Mahler, Bruckner, Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Bach, Handel, Strauss, Brahms, Schubert, Schumann, or any other 'big name' ....

So what would you like to hear?

[EnemyoftheStoat]

So what would you like to hear?

And straight back off-topic. GM failing to hold the attention?

[cloughie]

Perhaps it would be possible to do a complete Mahler cycle within a Proms season, without it dominating everything else? Just a thought.

They are rather 'big' symphonies I doubt they'd go unnoticed.

[cloughie]

Nor sure of Oramo's Mahler credentials though?

I guess he's as good as most and better than some - so no reason why his Mahler should not be top class!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I've no recollection of him taking on Mahler during his time with the CBSO but surely he must have done.

He did a complete (I think - can't find references to the Third) cycle with the CBSO in the 'noughties - returning to complete the "set" after he'd stopped being their principal conductor. He recorded the Fifth with them:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mahler-Symphony-No-5-Sakari-Oramo/dp/B000A7X8CU

... and the First with the Stockholm PO:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mahler-Symphony-No-1-Titan-x/dp/B0031LSW6Y

[LHC]

... such a good idea. I think we shd have a year of Proms with no Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Mahler, Bruckner, Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Bach, Handel, Strauss, Brahms, Schubert, Schumann, or any other 'big name' ....

Give it a few more years, and I'm sure the BBC will be able to fill an entire proms season with tributes to various dead, or nearly dead, pop singers, and the John Wilson Orchestra resurrecting old film musicals.

[Stanfordian]

Give it a few more years, and I'm sure the BBC will be able to fill an entire proms season with tributes to various dead, or nearly dead, pop singers, and the John Wilson Orchestra resurrecting old film musicals.

Hiya LHC,

I'd love a bet that you are dead right!

[PhilipT]

Hiya LHC,

I'd love a bet that you are dead right!

He left off the bit about ".. with every single Prom in a different non-traditional-concert-hall location and the Season Ticket not covering any of them." There will then be a Campaign for Really Authentic Proms, to which I might subscribe.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

He left off the bit about ".. with every single Prom in a different non-traditional-concert-hall location and the Season Ticket not covering any of them." There will then be a Campaign for Really Authentic Proms, to which I might subscribe.

[Richard Tarleton]

He left off the bit about ".. with every single Prom in a different non-traditional-concert-hall location

I was already sort of thinking along the lines of a Proms season with no orchestral music at all (to take vinteuil's suggestion above a stage further...) - why this fixation on orchestral music anyway, except you need it to fill the venue....

Not that I'm a one to talk as I've largely given up on the Proms - my next scheduled trip to London will be to hear Paul O'Dette play the lute in the Wigmore in October

[Alison]

As the chief conductor of the resident orchestra I'd have liked to see Mr Oramo feature earlier in the season.

Somehow there's no flavour to the Proms these days.

[vinteuil]

As the chief conductor of the resident orchestra I 'd have liked to see Mr Oramo feature earlier in the season.
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... Alison - I never knew! - respect!!

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[Alison]

... Alison - I never knew! - respect!!

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Oops, bit tired this evening

[BBMmk2]

Looking forward to the concert!!

[Braunschlag]

Hmmm ... It could have been the complete symphonies of Havergal Brian ;)

Or Leif Segerstam perhaps, a long season :)