Proms 2022

[Petrushka]

I was on the BBC Proms page:



Seems an odd way to put it, if it just clicks through to a “can’t book tickets yet” page on the RAH website… (but I’ve only had a cursory glance so far)

If you click on 'Buy Tickets' it merely directs you to the RAH website page where you can only add to planner. It is indeed a very odd way of doing it as you can't actually buy any tickets yet.

[Cockney Sparrow]

All roads lead to the Planner, it seems. I also note that a Prom ticket (=standing) can ONLY be bought online. I recall it was possible to buy a prom ticket online before - but is this new, no ticket sale at the door?

[Norrette]

In my planner so far:

17 Brahms German requiem
42 Sibelius 7 & Nielsen
52 Sib 5 & Lark
65 Berlin Phil Shost 10
66 Mahler 1

Pity the Shostakovich 10 is not on the telly. It's a Sunday and my local tubes are often shut down for engineering at weekends. So if I buy a parking ticket, it's going to be very very costly.
But it seem so long since the 10th was programmed...

Anyway something has to give in that lot as I can't afford them all.

Norrette

[Jonathan]

There are a couple of interesting looking concerts this time - not as much as usual I think. However, it's interesting to note that a piece by Alkan is in the organ prom!

[Serial_Apologist]

Cadogan Hall has been jettisoned completely for the Monday 1 PM concerts, replaced by afternoon matinee concerts from various venues around the UK.

Very sad to hear this - Cadogan Hall lunchtime concerts were for me the last vestige of interesting programming at the Proms: always a friendly reception there. We'll have to see if they intend continuing the lunchtime jazz freebies, which were an add-on rather than part of the Proms per se.

[Andrew Slater]

I've just copied my 2021 Proms listing code, changed the instances of '2021' to '2022' and run it. To my amazement it produced a listing. I haven't checked it yet, but if anybody's desperate to see a single page listing, the resulting rough-and-ready version is here.

I've also uploaded rough lists of works and performers.

I'll tidy it up later and produce the usual format page together with pdfs.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I've just copied my 2021 Proms listing code, changed the instances of '2021' to '2022' and run it. To my amazement it produced a listing. I haven't checked it yet, but if anybody's desperate to see a single page listing, the resulting rough-and-ready version is here.

I've also uploaded rough lists of works and performers.

I'll tidy it up later and produce the usual format page together with pdfs.

Many thanks, as always.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The title makes me laugh:

[ferryman]

I've just copied my 2021 Proms listing code, changed the instances of '2021' to '2022' and run it. To my amazement it produced a listing. I haven't checked it yet, but if anybody's desperate to see a single page listing, the resulting rough-and-ready version is here.

I've also uploaded rough lists of works and performers.

I'll tidy it up later and produce the usual format page together with pdfs.

Many Thanks!!

[Brixton Dave]

I thought the season looked good. Pity they've scrapped Cadogan Hall Monday lunchtimes - but I guess rotating concerts round the country might be a good idea.
I usually used to get a season and go to as many concerts as possible.
Those BBC/RAH ticketing gnomes have devised a fiendish scheme to preserve the multiple queuing.
You would have to buy a season e-ID which then qualifies you to claim a free e-ticket on the morning of the concert between 9 am and 10.30 am.
If you fail there you can still try and get a day e-ticket - paying a second time.

That all sounds a bit of a fag to me. My physical season ticket was an incentive to attend.
Multiple hurdles put me off.

[Dave2002]

Haven't really had a chance to digest this yet. The Proms book arrived today - courtesy of Amazon. Some concerts may be duplicates or nearly so of ones at the Edinburgh Festival, and the Wreckers is presumably a concert or semi-staged performance. Even when we lived closer to the RAH there was a significant cost in going to a concert, but it was at least possible to pick and choose, and go on successive days - or not - if interested. Now the travel and cost are serious deterrents unless there is something really potentially outstanding to go to

We have been rather put off going to such a crowded venue now - since Covid. It was a bit of a scramble even in the years before the pandemic took hold, but some people are still very cautious about going to places of entertainment.

AFAIK we haven't had Covid, but even now it doesn't sound great fun.

I guess if we're in the area we might risk one or two concerts - but that's not certain. Of course we used to arrange to meet friends as well to go to concerts and plays etc., and we'd often have a meal beforehand, but some still don't want to do that this year.

I'll come back here when I've been through the book a few times.

[Barbirollians]

It looks like the worst season I can ever remember - largely second rate soloists and conductors barring the BPO concerts, Philadelphia and the LSO /Rattle Mahler 2 and Missa S - the Lark yet again and the bitty LN formula as ever . Very disappointing.

[pastoralguy]

It looks like the worst season I can ever remember - largely second rate soloists and conductors barring the BPO concerts, Philadelphia and the LSO /Rattle Mahler 2 and Missa S - the Lark yet again and the bitty LN formula as ever . Very disappointing.

I certainly wouldn’t class the RSNO’s chief conductor, Thomas Sondergard as second rate!

[Dave2002]

I certainly wouldn’t class the RSNO’s chief conductor, Thomas Sondergard as second rate!

The listings - from post 21 are very helpful - https://radio-lists.org.uk/proms/2022/works_v01.html and https://radio-lists.org.uk/proms/202..._2022_v01.html

This doesn't look like a bad season [post 27]. If we still lived near enough there are perhaps ten or so concerts I'd like to hear.

What's wrong with:

Missa Solemnis
Bach B minor Mass
Shostakovich 5 (I've heard 10 too many times already).
plus some of the new pieces - such as Wynton Marsalis/violin concerto - may not be good - but could be an interesting opportunity.
Mahler 2 [OK - there's also Mahler 7 - but that's not on the same plane
and Benjamin Grosvenor doing Prokofiev 3 could be spectacular. Having Dvorak 7 and the Miraculous Mandarin [to start? a bit exciting ....!!!!] in the same concert seems like a bonus.
Oh - almost missed out Dausgaard's Nielsen.

[Pulcinella]

Prom 6 for me:

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 4 in F minor (30 mins)

Michael Tippett
Symphony No. 4 (33 mins)

BBC Philharmonic
Omer Meir Wellber conductor

But at only just over an hour's worth of music (never mind the quality.....) I certainly wouldn't make the trip.