Prom 59 (2.09.20) Live BBC Philharmonic - with strings attached

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Omer Meir Wellber, the BBC Philharmonic's Chief Conductor, is a keen fan of Haydn. 'Apart from period-instrument ensembles, hardly anyone plays him much these days and bigger orchestras need to be able to play his music,' he says. I'm going to be conducting a lot of his music with the BBC Philharmonic.'

Two of Haydn's works frame tonight's programme - the overture to Philemon und Baucis, a puppet opera written in 1773 for the Esterhazy court; and the powerful D minor Symphony, No 80, written in the following decade as Haydn stood at the crossroads of a story that parachuted him from local composer in Esterhaza to the height of international fame.

Marionettes, a commission from Uzbek-born, Berlin-based Aziza Sadikova, continues the puppet-play theme, while Britten's Nocturne - one of the treasured song-cycles he wrote for his partner, Peter Pears - explores a rich world of night-time images and dreams, setting words by poets including Shakespeare, Tennyson and Keats. The soloist this evening is leading British tenor and former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Allan Clayton.

Live from MediaCityUK, Salford

Haydn: Overture, Philemon und Baucis
Aziza Sadikova: Marionettes (BBC commission, first performance)
Britten: Nocturne
Haydn: Symphony No 80 in D minor

Allan Clayton (tenor)
BBC Philharmonic
Omer Meir Wellber (conductor)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Wow! A Prom in Salford! A step in the right direction, the BBC supposedly being a national organisation. There's been a steady trickle in this direction in the last couple of seasons.

[bluestateprommer]

Quick thread bump for today's BBC Philharmonic Salford Quays Prom, following the Haydn overture, a nice opener. Nice also to hear the orchestra express its appreciation for John Storgårds pinch-hitting for the indisposed OMW.

Texts of the Nocturne poems for anyone who needs / wants them: https://www.lieder.net/lieder/assemb...SongCycleId=73

[teamsaint]

Quick thread bump for today's BBC Philharmonic Salford Quays Prom, following the Haydn overture, a nice opener. Nice also to hear the orchestra express its appreciation for John Storgårds pinch-hitting for the indisposed OMW.

That must be a first on a proms thread , BSP.

[Nick Armstrong]

That must be a first on a proms thread , BSP.

[DracoM]

Yep, and LIVE steaming on TV too!!

[DracoM]

LOVED that. And the iPLayer live streaming made it an event.
More, more............!

[Bryn]

LOVED that. And the iPLayer live streaming made it an event.
More, more............!

Where does one find the iPlayer (i.e. video) streaming? The most recent I have been able to track down is last night's London Sinfonietta Prom.

[LHC]

Where does one find the iPlayer (i.e. video) streaming? The most recent I have been able to track down is last night's London Sinfonietta Prom.

For some reason, although the live streams can be watched live on the IPlayer, once the concert has finished they disappear, and only become available again on the following day. So tonight’s concert should reappear on the IPlayer tomorrow.

[bluestateprommer]

Where does one find the iPlayer (i.e. video) streaming? The most recent I have been able to track down is last night's London Sinfonietta Prom.

This looks to be the general page to access the iPlayer videos of this year's concerts, but maybe everyone knew about this page already:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/b007v097

Following up on the Haydn overture, the standout, IMHO, of this concert was the Britten Nocturne, very understandably so, with Allan Clayton in excellent form along with the BBC Philharmonic soloists, all justly mentioned at the end of this reading. Must give it another listen. Perhaps the Tchaikovsky op. 48 played it rather safe and careful with pacing, but if JS got the call on truly short notice, that is also understandable. The Hamlet excerpt was the perfect palate cleanser between the two large-scale works.

A wee bit of gushy editorializing from Tom McKinney, but it was comparatively short by KM standards. And in the larger scheme of things, not the worst thing in the world to worry about now. (That's actually on my side of the pond, sad to say.)

[Bryn]

For some reason, although the live streams can be watched live on the IPlayer, once the concert has finished they disappear, and only become available again on the following day. So tonight’s concert should reappear on the IPlayer tomorrow.

Thanks. I will check in the morning, before I go down to the local Amazon Locker to collect my copy of:

[DracoM]

[oddoneout]

Yep, and LIVE steaming on TV too!!

Someone forget to turn the kettle off?

[LMcD]

When I read 'live steaming on TV', I assumed this referred to interviews with people getting worked up over the vexed question of certain Last Night items.

[Bryn]

The on-demand stream has now been posted at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...c-philharmonic