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« Reply #106 on: 19:59:37, 29-07-2007 » |
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« Reply #107 on: 20:10:48, 29-07-2007 » |
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Yet another philistine who doesn't appreciate the subtlety of Roger Moore's acting...
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« Reply #108 on: 21:59:46, 29-07-2007 » |
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The Uzbeks were pretty stunning, Tommo: suddenly the story of Joshua and Jericho seemed somehow less improbable...
Cheers Ron, Managed to catch it on Listen Again. Earlier in the Month I caught some Tibetan Monks at the Henley Festival - quite a similar sound. They were stonkingly loud, and I can imagine the Uzbeks were too. Tommo |
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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« Reply #110 on: 23:14:55, 29-07-2007 » |
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Anybody else feel a sense of H&N-type late evening ghettoisation for the second Prom?
But it's Susanna Mälkki...... why would anyone leave? Tommo |
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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« Reply #111 on: 22:41:33, 31-07-2007 » |
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Wednesday 8 August 1984
Brahms
Symphony No.3 in F major (37 mins)
Interval
Dvo?ák
Violin Concerto in A minor (33 mins)
Johann Strauss II
March from The Gypsy Baron (3mins)
Cuckoo Polka (4 mins)
Tritsch-Tratsch Polka (3 mins)
The Blue Danube (10 mins)
Perpetuum Mobile (3 mins)
Nigel Kennedy violin
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by James Loughran
Wednesday I August 2007
Kurtág's funeral ode on the death of his teacher András Mihály prefaces one of the greatest of all Romantic symphonies: Mahler's Ninth, written soon after the death of his own daughter, which opens with the irregular rhythm in imitation of Mahler's own failing heartbeat. Ilan Volkov conducts the BBC SSO, an orchestra with which he has enjoyed a warm rapport since he became its Chief Conductor in 2003.
György Kurtág
Stele (14 mins)
Interval
Mahler
Symphony No. 9 in D (85 mins)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov conductor
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« Reply #112 on: 22:46:02, 31-07-2007 » |
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« Reply #113 on: 22:55:45, 31-07-2007 » |
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1984 is a very strange programme indeed, isn't it? The Strauss seems to be tacked-on to make up for the fact that there was to be no separate Strauss evening that year: a break with tradition.
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« Reply #114 on: 23:03:17, 31-07-2007 » |
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Last time I saw a contest that unbalanced, Australia was playing cricket.
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« Reply #115 on: 23:26:35, 31-07-2007 » |
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I'm slightly surprised that there have been no comments about the previous 1984 Prom, but how about this one?
Wednesday 1 August 1984
Harrison Birtwistle
Three Movements with Fanfares (15 mins)
Nomos (15 mins)
Interval
Bartok
Sonata for two pianos and percussion (25 mins)
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Berio
Sinfonia (26 mins)
Robert Bridge piano
Jonathan Higgins piano
Tristan Fry percussion
James Holland percussion
Electric Phoenix
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Elgar Howarth
This was my first ever prom! Sat right up near the top, almost at the gallery. Electric Phoenix were great that night. The Berio was my incentive for going and like smittims I remember the Nomos reference in the 3rd mt. Even just reading the quotes touches on some very deep memories. What a wonderful piece it is, and how underrated Berio still is. |
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Thursday 9 August 1984
Mozart
Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K. 546 (8 mins)
Beethoven
Symphony No. 2 in D major (35 mins)
Interval
Haydn
Mass in D Minor (Nelson) (43 mins)
Eiddwen Harrhy soprano
Carolyn Watkinson mezzo-soprano
Philip Langridge tenor
Malcolm King bass
Schütz Choir of London
London Classical players
Conductor Roger Norrington
Thursday 2 August 2007
Royal Albert Hall: 700pm
Debussy's exuberant celebration of spring, in which he sought to 'cover as wide a range of sensations as possible', and his fellow Frenchman's swirling deconstruction of the Viennese waltz, throw into relief Prokofiev's last Western commission before returning to the USSR, performed by the star soloist from 2005's First Night. David Matthews' Sixth Symphony, commissioned by the John S. Cohen Foundation, receives its first performance following the warm reception given to Matthews' Fifth Symphony at the Proms in 1999.
Debussy
Printemps (16 mins)
Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor (27 mins)
interval
David Matthews
Symphony No. 6 (world premiere) (35 mins)
Ravel
La valse (12 mins)
Janine Jansen violin
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen conductor
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« Reply #117 on: 19:08:27, 02-08-2007 » |
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Who is this Janine Jansen anyway?
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How would I know? You've got to be cooooooooooooool, FAB and have a critical command of emoticons to appreciate her, I suspect.
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Friday 10 August 1984
Debussy
Ibéria (19 mins)
Stravinsky
Symphonies of Wind Instruments (9 mins)
Interval
Bartók
Duke Bluebeard's Castle (60 mins)
Julia Hamari soprano
Laszlo Polgar bass
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Peter Eötvös
Friday 3 August 2007
Stravinsky's buzzing scherzo inspired by the 'vital energy' and 'ferocious lyricism' of the world of bees sets the scene for the extreme virtuosity of Magnus Lindberg's Clarinet Concerto. Semyon Bychkov, making his first Proms appearance with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, also conducts Rakhmaninov's expansively lyrical Second Symphony, whose bitter-sweet Adagio carries the most lyrical clarinet solo in the orchestral repertory.
Stravinsky
Scherzo fantastique (12 mins)
Magnus Lindberg
Clarinet Concerto (20 mins)
Interval
Rakhmaninov
Symphony No. 2 in E minor (60 mins)
Kari Kriikku clarinet
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov conductor
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