Prom 75 - 9.09.17: Last Night of the Proms

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

19:15 Saturday 9 September 2017 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Lotta Wennakoski: Flounce (BBC commission: world premiere)
Kodaly:Budavari Te Deum
Sargent:An Impression on a Windy Day
Sibelius: Finlandia
Wagner: Tristan and Isolde - Prelude and Liebestod
John Adams: Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance (London premiere)
Weill: Selection of Songs
Gershwin: Selection of Songs
Wood: Fantasia on British Sea-Songs
Arne arr. Sargent: Rule, Britannia!
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D ('Land of Hope and Glory')
Parry orch. Elgar: Jerusalem
The National Anthem (arr. Bliss)

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

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

Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra weave together many of this season's musical strands into the exuberant celebration that is the Last Night of the Proms.
They mark the 50th anniversaries of the deaths of composers Zoltán Kodály and Malcolm Sargent (better known as the longtime chief conductor of the Proms), and celebrate John Adams's 70th birthday with the London premiere of his exhilarating Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance.
Music by Sibelius marks the 100th anniversary of Finnish Independence, and Nina Stemme, arguably the world's greatest living Wagnerian soprano, leads the end-of-season festivities.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The Bliss arrangement of the National Anthem is new to me.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The Bliss arrangement of the National Anthem is new to me.

Upbeat or what - the opposite of Britten's muted version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1uSpfhxIik

... I know it from the CfP LP Crown Imperial, which featured Andrew Davies in (one of) his earliest recordings as a conductor:

[vinteuil]

... I know it from the CfP LP Crown Imperial, which featured Andrew Davies in (one of) his earliest recordings as a conductor:

... and what is your excuse / defence for having or having had such an LP?


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[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... and what is your excuse / defence for having or having had such an LP?
.

I was thirteen and wanted a cheap recording of the Walton (the Handel was an added incentive, too).

[vinteuil]

I was thirteen

... all is forgiven.




[ ... but why has he still hung on to it?? ]

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[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Upbeat or what - the opposite of Britten's muted version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1uSpfhxIik

... I know it from the CfP LP Crown Imperial, which featured Andrew Davies in (one of) his earliest recordings as a conductor:

I bought this in my younger days, and was very jealous of this young upstart, Andrew Davis.

(I mellowed.)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

This is my favourite version:

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

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7H_iFPuPzU

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAxmorlCOn4

It may a dull tune, but Sir David Willcocks really could make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

[Prommer]

Upbeat or what - the opposite of Britten's muted version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1uSpfhxIik

... I know it from the CfP LP Crown Imperial, which featured Andrew Davies in (one of) his earliest recordings as a conductor:

And three verses too! Including (as the second verse) the now less familiar:

"O Lord our God arise,
Scatter her enemies
And make them fall;
Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks,
On Thee our hopes we fix,
God save us all!"

[Serial_Apologist]

,
God save us all!

I'll second that!

[vinteuil]

... and what has happened to the vital comma in "Rule, Britannia..." ? If it's "Rule Britannia... " - then who is it we are inviting to Rule Us???


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[underthecountertenor]

... and what has happened to the vital comma in "Rule, Britannia..." ? If it's "Rule Britannia... " - then who is it we are inviting to Rule Us???


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We need to take back control of our comma.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

[ ... but why has he still hung on to it?? ]

"He" hasn't - it left my possession (with many of my other LPs) about thirty years ago.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I bought this in my younger days

... ??? ... and didn't play it?

(Bliss conducted his own arrangement of the NA on the record - a rather gaunt AD conducts the rest.)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

... ??? ... and didn't play it?

Well I did, but I really bought the LP as the cheapest way to obtain Crown Imperial. I'd completely forgotten the National Anthem arrangement.