Help needed. Just returned from a longish holiday and am anxious to catch up on some of the Proms I've missed. Are they all available on i-player? For instance I can't find Olivier Latry's organ recital from August 4th.
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Welcome back, ardy! All Proms are still available here:
... the Latry gig is here:
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Thanks Ferney. Silly me
Loved the NYO Prom and thought they did the Prokofiev brilliantly. Hope all the filigree solo bits for woodwind came over OK in the Hall. The brass + wind en masse was tripled, I think, though I noticed that where the horns play in the stratosphere, just a couple of players did it...and to perfection. Thought the selection of movements excellent.Comment
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Welcome Mr A. Yes a brilliant NYO and especially the horn section. I think just the odd numbered players went for the top notes, the high note specialists and they nailed it. The first horn, Annemarie Federle, did really well in the last BBC Young Musician when she was 15. Should be up there in the finals next time round IMHO.Originally posted by ardcarp View PostThanks Ferney. Silly me
Loved the NYO Prom and thought they did the Prokofiev brilliantly. Hope all the filigree solo bits for woodwind came over OK in the Hall. The brass + wind en masse was tripled, I think, though I noticed that where the horns play in the stratosphere, just a couple of players did it...and to perfection. Thought the selection of movements excellent.Comment
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Diverting this thread from its original purpose, sort of, after a fashion (as is BSP's wont), it's worth observing, at least from this side of the pond, which Proms that the US public radio program SymphonyCast chooses for airing on US radio airwaves to us ignorant Yanks, to get at least a selection out to an American audience not familiar with The Proms. SymphonyCast always includes the First Night and the Last Night, so that leaves 7 or 8 in the middle to fill in. This year, it was 7 additional Proms rather than 8, as in past years. Going in order (which, BTW, allows you guys to catch up on some that are past their iPlayer date, although I've occasional issues with the audio off SymphonyCast's page):
1. The First Night (BBC SO, Canellakis)
2. Prom 2 (Bamberg SO, Joshua Bell, Hrusa)
3. Prom 8 (BBC SO, Isabelle Faust, Eotvos)
4. Prom 17 (BRSO, Gil S., YNS)
5. Prom 32 (WEDO, Argerich, Barenboim)
6. Prom 41 (LPO, Ghindin, Jurowski)
7. Prom 46 (CBSO, MG-T, a.k.a. "The Sheku and Mirga Show")
8. Prom 61 (VPO, Kavakos, Orozco-Estrada)
9. The Last Night (BBC SO, Oramo)
Given the safe tastes and gauging of the US public radio audience for classical orchestra broadcasts, most of the choices struck me as typically 'safe'. The relative surprises were the choices of Proms 8 and 41. Prom 46 would have been more of a risky choice if the cellist were not Sheku and the conductor not MG-T, since both of them have gotten a lot of good buzz even on this side of the pond. Anyway, your chance to be bemused at reading the minds of how the SymphonyCast people think.Comment
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The list of Proms repeats for this Christmas / Holiday season shows up at this page, a rather curious mix, IMHO:
Monday, 23 Dec: Prom 16: Late Night - Angélique Kidjo
Tuesday, 24 Dec:
(a) Prom 60: Vienna Philharmonic and Bernard Haitink
(b) Prom 36: Late-Night Mixtape
Wed. 25 Dec.
(a) Prom 71: Bach Night
(b) Prom 54: Duke Ellington's Sacred Music
Thurs. 26 Dec.: Prom 30: The Warner Brothers Story
Fri. 27 Dec.:
(a) Prom 69: Smetana, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky
(b) Prom 70: Jonny Greenwood
Sun. 29 Dec.: Prom 67: Sakari Oramo conducts Sibelius
Mon. 30 Dec.:
(a) Prom 65: Mozart, Beethoven and Richard Strauss
(b) Prom 45: Mississippi Goddam: A Homage to Nina Simone
Tues. 31 Dec.:
(a) Prom 63: Yuja Wang plays Rachmaninov
(b) Prom 75: Last Night of the Proms
Wed. 1 Jan. 2020: Prom 59: Benvenuto Cellini
Thu. 2 Jan.:
(a) Prom 68: Wagner Night
(b) Prom 74: Beethoven Night
Fri. 3 Jan. 2020: Prom 55: Handel's Jephtha
For comparison (not that this means anything in the real world), here's a collation of the Proms & PCM's this summer, with # of Forum views (using EA's thread titles), as a very tangential measure of interest or 'popularity', to compare with the above list:
Prom # of Views
Prom 1: First Night of the Proms - 19.07.19 = 9885
Prom 60: Vienna Philharmonic and Bernard Haitink - 3.09.19 = 9469
Prom 75 - Last Night of the Proms 14.09.19 = 9231
Prom 25: Tchaikovsky, Sibelius & Weinberg - 6.08.19 = 6454
Prom 12: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain - 27.07.19 = 5955
Prom 26: Mozart’s Requiem - 7.08.19 = 5901
Prom 17: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (2) - 31.07.19 = 5739
Prom 47: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra - 23.08.19 = 5517
Prom 34: West–Eastern Divan Orchestra - 12.08.19 = 5341
Prom 35: Enigma Variations - 13.08.19 = 4933
Prom 13: ‘From the Canyons to the Stars …’ - 28.07.19 = 4858
Prom 2: Bohemian Rhapsody - 20.07.19 = 4832
Prom 15: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (1) - 30.07.19 = 4683
Prom 7: Schumann, Schoenberg & Mozart - 23.07.19 = 4608
Prom 6: The Rite of Spring - 22.07.19 = 4598
Prom 32: An Alpine Symphony - 11.08.19 = 4457
Prom 21: Olivier Latry - 4.08.19 = 4372
Prom 20: Pekka Kuusisto and the BBC SSO - 3.08.19 = 4237
Prom 45: Mississippi Goddam: A Homage to Nina Simone - 21.08.19 = 4086
Proms 72 & 73 - Symphonie fantastique - 12.09.19 = 3896
Prom 39: Elgar, Errollyn Wallen, Mendelssohn & Mussorgsky - 15.08.19 = 3833
Proms 29 & 30: The Warner Brothers Story 9.08.19 = 3771
Prom 11: 1969: The Sound of a Summer - 26.07.19 = 3694
Prom 56: Henry Wood Tribute - 31.08.19 = 3503
Prom 18: Mahler & Britten - 1.08.19 = 3377
Prom 22: Rachmaninov, Shostakovich & Outi Tarkiainen - 4.08.19 = 3302
Prom 44: Belshazzar’s Feast - 20.08.19 = 3185
Prom 40: Queen Victoria’s 200th Anniversary - 16.08.19 = 3136
Prom 41: Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Lyadov & Glazunov - 17.08.19 = 3088
Prom 19: Strauss, Schumann & MacMillan - 2.08.19 = 2922
Prom 59: Benvenuto Cellini - 2.09.19 = 2812
Proms 3 & 5: CBeebies: A Musical Trip to the Moon 21/22.07.19 = 2764
Prom 31: Brahms, Bruckner & Strauss - 10.08.19 = 2662
Prom 71: Bach Night 11.09.19 = 2599
Prom 46: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra - 22.08.19 = 2549
Prom 9: Strauss, Brahms & Broström - 25.07.19 = 2474
Prom 48: Rachmaninov, Prokofiev & Silvestri - 24.08.19 = 2422
Prom 67: Sakari Oramo conducts Sibelius = 2359
Prom 49: The Lost Words - 25.08.19 = 2328
Prom 69: Smetana, Shostakovich & Tchaikovsky - 10.09.19 = 2308
Prom 64: The Breaks - 6.09.19 = 2292
Prom 23: Swan Lake - 5.08.19 = 2288
Prom 51: The Magic Flute - 27.08.19 = 2104
Prom 68: Wagner Night - 9.09.19 = 2074
Prom 63: Yuja Wang plays Rachmaninov 5.09.19 = 2043
Prom 58: Tchaikovsky, Janácek, Szymanowski and Linda Catlin Smith - 1.09.19 = 1994
Prom 33: Mahler, Schubert & Glanert - 11.08.19 = 1975
Prom 4: The Planets - 21.07.19 = 1945
Prom 37: The Childhood of Christ - 14.08.19 = 1894
Prom 36: Late-Night Mixtape - 13.08.19 = 1797
Prom 50: Orchestre de Paris - 26.08.19 = 1726
Prom 57: Mozart, Rachmaninov & Qigang Chen - 1.09.19 = 1680
Prom 43: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony - 19.08.19 = 1670
Prom 74 - Beethoven Night 12.09.19 = 1657
Prom 8: Invitation to the Dance - 24.07.19 = 1650
Prom 65: Mozart, Beethoven & R. Strauss - 7.09.19 = 1597
Prom 70 - 10.09.19 Johnny Greenwood = 1581
Prom 14: The Creation - 29.07.19 = 1560
Prom 53: Elgar’s The Music Makers - 29.08.19 = 1512
Proms at … Cadogan Hall 1: VOCES8 - 22.07.19 = 1441
Proms at … Cadogan Hall 2: A Celebration of Barbara Strozzi - 29.07.19 = 1193
Prom 28: Rachmaninov, Borodin & Huw Watkins - 8.08.19 = 1121
Prom 52: Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky & Ryan Wigglesworth - 28.08.19 = 1053
Prom 66: John Luther Adams’s In the Name of the Earth - 8.09.19 = 1051
Prom 38: Solomon’s Knot - 14.08.19 = 1014
Prom 55: Handel’s Jephtha - 30.08.19 = 958
Proms at … Cadogan Hall 5: Louise Alder - 19.08.19 = 922
Proms at … Cadogan Hall 8: Tribute to Oliver Knussen = 910
Proms at … Cadogan Hall 4: Aris Quartet - 12.08.19 = 897
Prom 42: Youthful Beginnings - 18.08.19 = 873
Prom 10: Public Service Broadcasting - 25.07.19 = 848
Proms at … Cadogan Hall 7: Silesian String Quartet - 2.09.19 = 732
Proms at … Cadogan Hall 3: The English Concert - 5.08.19 = 681
Proms at … Battersea Arts Centre - 27.7. 9 = 660
Prom 54: Duke Ellington’s Sacred Music - 29.08.19 = 593
Proms at … Cadogan Hall 6: Amatis Trio 26.08.19 = 584
Prom 27: The Sound of Space: Sci-Fi Film Music - 7.08.19 = 547
Prom 24: Relaxed Prom - 6.08.19 = 488
Prom 62: Canzionere Grecanico Salentino - 4.09.19 = 483
Prom 16: Late Night – Angélique Kidjo - 30.07.19 = 483
Proms at … Holy Sepulchre London - 17.08.19 = 476
Random thought: has it ever occurred to anyone at R3 perhaps to air some of the PCM's from the summer as "Proms Repeats" during the Lunchtime Concert hour? Or perhaps that involves rights negotiations with the artists in question.Comment
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Thanks for the resource above. Will dip in once I have finished Christmas around Europe!Originally posted by bluestateprommer View PostComment
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