Prom 75 - Last Night of the Proms 14.09.19

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

No need for any such resistance, MJ. The world premiere, conducted by the Composer, can be heard on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlZAn0QMEGw&list=PLa_p8CB6dmK4a-uYn6bIWrhw7OEOqcI_6&index=3

... as can the later Lyrita issue:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kYetesSHUHGLqE7hC79RB6GhiR0tXq7Oo

[cloughie]

And that's the key: there is apparently precious LITTLE carry of audiences on any scale from the poppy end to the classical end.
The BBC seem increasingly caught between two stepping stones across the beck, and risk crashing into the drink below.

For me - and I like music of all kinds - the RAH is just NOT the place for the pop / R2 Friday Night is Music Night tedium.

Now, if the first half of a concert was Mahler 4th, and the second Nina Simone Memory Night, it'd be interesting to see how the audience changed!!

Particularly interesting if the Mahler 4 soloist was also a soloist for the Nina Simone!

[Serial_Apologist]

No need for any such resistance, MJ. The world premiere, conducted by the Composer, can be heard on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlZAn0QMEGw&list=PLa_p8CB6dmK4a-uYn6bIWrhw7OEOqcI_6&index=3

... as can the later Lyrita issue:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...RB6GhiR0tXq7Oo

Sheer bliss!

[seabright]

What a good idea. I'd love to hear them. But does the music still exist?

According to Arthur Jacobs' bio of Wood, the manuscript scores & parts are lodged in the Royal Academy of Music. Some enterprising record company should record a CD of all three Fantasias ("Scottish", "Welsh" and "Sea Songs") and if there's sufficient room left over, throw in his "Purcell Suite" for good measure ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNMw-qNthfY

[pastoralguy]

According to Arthur Jacobs' bio of Wood, the manuscript scores & parts are lodged in the Royal Academy of Music. Some enterprising record company should record a CD of all three Fantasias ("Scottish", "Welsh" and "Sea Songs") and if there's sufficient room left over, throw in his "Purcell Suite" for good measure ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNMw-qNthfY

If Mrs. PG and I win the Euromillions top prize of £155 Million tonite then I'd certainly be happy to sponsor a recording of it. How about Sir Simon and the London Symphony Orchestra?

[Edgy 2]

I can't resist plugging Bliss's excellent choral cantata The Beatitudes, written for the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral, which had a super performance in the Barbican a couple of years ago, now released on Chandos. Full of good stuff. Should be done at the Proms, but never has been.

Excellent indeed.
It was however programmed at the 31st August 1964 Prom,captured on the Lyrita recording highlighted in ferney’s post #121.
There is a recording of the Coventry premier which I haven’t heard.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

It was however programmed at the 31st August 1964 Prom,captured on the Lyrita recording highlighted in ferney’s post #121.
There is a recording of the Coventry premier which I haven’t heard.

Also linked in ferney's post #121

[Edgy 2]

Also linked in ferney's post #121

Doh !

[Master Jacques]

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Excellent indeed.
It was however programmed at the 31st August 1964 Prom,captured on the Lyrita recording highlighted in ferney’s post #121.
There is a recording of the Coventry premier which I haven’t heard.

Thank you both for reminding me that the Lyrita issue was a Prom performance: I'd forgotten. The recent Dutton transfer of the Coventry premiere is pretty ropey sonically, very murky and shallow. There may be a better off-air recording of that first performance lurking in the Itter Collection, perhaps. The new Chandos is the one to have, for sure - the concert itself had a real sense of occasion about it, which has for once transferred to the CD.

[kernelbogey]

If Mrs. PG and I win the Euromillions top prize of £155 Million tonite then I'd certainly be happy to sponsor a recording of it. How about Sir Simon and the London Symphony Orchestra?

Any news PG?

[Barbirollians]

I am amazed that not one note of Bernhard Crusell’smusic has ever been played at the Proms not even the famous Clarinet Concerto No 2.

Which would be an ideal concerto for the first half of the LNOTP.

[Edgy 2]

Also linked in ferney's post #121

Excellent indeed.
It was however programmed at the 31st August 1964 Prom,captured on the Lyrita recording highlighted in ferney’s post #121.
There is a recording of the Coventry premier which I haven’t heard.

I have now,not an easy listen with the sound quality