Do we know what the dates for the Proms are this year?
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Yes: found by Googling!Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
The 2019 BBC Proms will run from Friday 19 July to Saturday 14 September.
The details of all the 2019 BBC Proms will be available from Wednesday 17 April 2019.
There will be two Proms with CBeebies on Sunday 21 and Monday 22 July. -
Not to mention an appearance by Dalia Stasevska as the BBC SO's new principal guest conductor in the same month:Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
"She makes her debut with the orchestra in her new role at the Proms in July."Comment
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Thanks for that.Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
Before this year I'd never really bothered, assuming that I could wait to plan until the listings come out. This year though I'm finding that I'd like to plan things a lot further ahead, and I suspect that other people who don't live in the south east might also want to. Anyone who is making a journey to the UK from abroad might really appreciate more information earlier, rather than later.
I don't suppose my desire to have information earlier will have much effect on those who plan these concerts though, but I am now finding generally that having details of events well in advance - even up to a year - does make some personal planning easier. I never thought this would be an issue for me - though I saw other people older than me doing this and having diaries to fill in. Generally I didn't worry about it, and just hoped that things would work out.
I do know that from the planner's point of view, sometimes precise details are difficult, and arrangements with agents, orchestras, solists etc. all have to be made, and contracts signed, and even then things don't always happen as planned.
Do we know whan booking opens yet? I'm trying to guess from last year's pattern - but it could most likely be 11th May or 18th may, with the Proms Planner being ready a few days after the series is announced, and closing a day or so before the booking opens.Comment
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Proms 2019 Rumours
Just for fun, I had a quick rummage through the internet and found the following which may be of interest:
Sun 21st, Mon 22nd July
CBeebies Prom (publically anounced)
27th August 2019 - 7pm
Die Zauberflöte (Glyndebourne Festival)
28th August 2019 - 7.30pm
Britten Sinfonia - BBC Proms, Ryan Wigglesworth conductor/piano, Paul Lewis piano
Programme to include:
Tchaikovsky Orchestral Suite no. 4, 'Mozartiana'
Ryan Wigglesworth Piano Concerto (world premiere)
Mozart Concerto for 2 Pianos
2nd September 2019
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini (Monteverdi Choir)Comment
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We could really do with BBC releasing this information much earlier in the year. Places like the National Theatre etc have already released this years dates for booking. I need to plan my calendar.Comment
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Originally posted by Norrette View Post
That's a very good point. It would certainly help people having to plan accommodation in London for concerts they'd like to attend, for example.
And the tune ends too soon for us allComment
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Originally posted by Norrette View Post
A provincial writes:
What please is the rough timing of the announcement, based on previous years' experience?
Thanks for information.Comment
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Beeb Blurb about the 2019 Festival Guide, which enables one to reserve a copy (it's "officially" released on 17th April):Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
£7 - or £6.30 from the publishers themselves:
[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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Notlong now. Next month we will know.Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750Comment
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I read this as 'Notung now'!Originally posted by BBMmk2 View Post
Oh good, I thought: Walkuere Act I again.....
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Where'er you walk?Originally posted by kernelbogey View PostI read this as 'Notung now'!
Oh good, I thought: Walkuere Act I again.....Comment
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One new nugget, since the Gewandhaus just hosted its preview for next season:
23/08/19, Royal Albert Hall
Gewandhausorchester
Andris Nelsons
Michael Schönheit
Organ works by Bach
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Bruckner Symphony No 8
In other, non Prom news:
Next season the Gewandhaus will focus among other things on Weinberg/Vainberg. I counted 2 string quartets, a violin sonata with Argerich at the piano, 1 piano quartet and 3 concertos (violin, trumpet, cello), but no symphony. Some Gewandhaus concerts are picked up for radio broadcast, and the trumpet concerto is a strong candidate (19th and 20th December; Nelsons and Hardenberger, paired with Tschaikowski 4, which they intend to record)
And Blomstedt will perform and record a Brahms cycle. If the people in charge have any sense at all, that's two concerts of the 2020 Proms sorted.Comment
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I seem to have stumbled across this, from a Slipped Disc article published back in January listing this year's world premieres by the Finnish composer Kalevi Aho:
– August (TBA) London (BBC Proms; Royal Albert Hall): Variation XII for “Enigma Variations” for Martyn Brabbins; BBC Symphony Orchestra; Martyn Brabbins, cond.
I initially assumed it might have been a re-arrangement of Elgar's Var. XII, but then I thought what if it's an entirely new set of variations on Elgar's theme, written by contemporary composers. Looks interesting either way.Comment
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The Boosey performances site and the orchestra's website show a concert in London on 31 July at 7.30pm of the following. If they are being so coy with the venue, surely it must be a Proms performance?...
Wednesday, 31. July 2019, 7.30 pm
London,
PROGRAMME
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 1 E minor, op. 39
Interval
Sergej Prokofjew
Concerto for violin and orchestra No. 2 G minor, op. 63
Richard Strauss
Der Rosenkavalier TrV 227, op. 59 Suite
Mariss Jansons, Conductor
Lisa Batiashvili, Violin
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen RundfunksComment
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