Prom 74 (12.09.20) Last Night of the Proms

[Bryn]

Of course, we should all don our headphones, link them (plugging in is so yesterday) to our 'smart' phones, connect to the iPlayer app, head out through the front door, wave our EU flags, and join in with the BBC Singers in Britannia Waives the Rules and Land of Soap and Water, karaoke-style, in support of the BBC and the NHS. (Or not.)

[LMcD]

Of course, we should all don our headphones, link them (plugging in is so yesterday) to our 'smart' phones, connect to the iPlayer app, head out through the front door, wave our EU flags, and join in with the BBC Singers in Britannia Waives the Rules and Land of Soap and Water, karaoke-style, in support of the BBC and the NHS. (Or not.)

Would you care to 'dep' for me?

[Bryn]

Would you care to 'dep' for me?

Sorry, I've got this big indoors rave to go to.

[Serial_Apologist]

Sorry, I've got this big indoors rave to go to.

Hmm - not to be sniffed at.

[Bryn]

Hmm - not to be sniffed at.

Perhaps I should have said I have a masque to attend.

[Ein Heldenleben]

Don’t know how many are watching / listening but really enjoying the clarity of textures from a reduced string section as in that sprightly LNDF overture. One of the unexpected benefits of social distancing : a more HIPP like sound Perhaps ? One thing this years LNOTP will not be so ludicrously overblown ...

[Prommer]

No EU flags this year! BBC set dressing department clearly traddies...

[Prommer]

Still here!

[Ein Heldenleben]

Yes me too..

[Prommer]

Still here!

Just catching up on posts... someone asks if any Prommers still around. And specifically if any who like the Proms as such, also enjoy the Last Night. I do. I can encompass both the quotidian fare of the Proms with the Last Night programme. Shoot me.

Mahler 9 and Rule Britannia? Hell, yes. Just not on the same evening or in the same mood.

[Petrushka]

Enjoying the music but my cringe-o-meter went off the scale before a note had been played.

[Prommer]

Nice to see it all on BBC1. They have decided to use the applause from the park, to give a tiny bit more atmosphere to the broadcast (on TV at least), which I suppose is understandable...

[Ein Heldenleben]

I think hearing Mozart and Strauss at 8.0O on BBC ONE is so rare as to almost make one faint with pleasure and surprise . I have to say Golda Schultz has really massively impressed me. And now Nicola B playing quite beautifully.

[cloughie]

I think hearing Mozart and Strauss at 8.0O on BBC ONE is so rare as to almost make one faint with pleasure and surprise . I have to say Golda Schultz has really massively impressed me. And now Nicola B playing quite beautifully.

I agree with you about Nicola and Gullda’s voice but why the need to show the scenes of the four nations, much rather see Nicola! However, that arrangement of Jerusalem was dreadful!

[Keraulophone]

Shame about Morgen - completely missed the stillness of this lovely song with phrasing as lumpy as my white sauce. Impressed by Elsa Dreisig’s recent album ‘Morgen’ on Erato, however.