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Next Tuesday at 7.00, tinnners: you can breathe again now!
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« Reply #16 on: 22:47:46, 12-07-2007 » |
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The first Mondays in the 1984 and 2007 Proms seasons each have two concerts, though the idea of Lunchtime Proms had not yet been brought to fruition. Despite the title, the 1984 late-nighter had nothing to with Carl Orff, of course, but was the first of several early music Proms.
Monday 23 July 1984
Royal Albert Hall at 10.00pm
Carmina Burana (c. 60 mins)
Catherine Bott soprano
Michael George baritone
New London Consort
Director Philip Pickett
Monday 16 July 2007
Lunchtime Recital: Cadogan Hall at 1.00pm
A welcome return to Proms Chamber Music for Alice Coote, who revisits the poignant song-cycle specially composed for her by Judith Weir – a series of fleeting conversations between humans and birds – after music by earlier generations of lyrical English song composers, headed by Elgar.
Elgar
Pleading; Speak, Music (7 mins)
Vaughan Williams
The Watermill; Silent Noon; The splendour falls on castle walls (13 mins)
Quilter
Now sleeps the crimson petal; There be none of Beauty’s daughters; Love's Philosophy (7 mins)
Judith Weir
The Voice of Desire (14 mins)
Alice Coote mezzo-soprano
Graham Johnson piano
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And how about the other Proms on the second day?
Looking through this thread, the perfect title for a piece has leapt out at me: There Will Be No IntervalI have no idea what the piece will be like (possibly just one note...) but the title is fantastic. |
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hh If there's no interval, wouldn't it be one long sustained tone?  (Actually, I very much agree with you: great title!) |
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« Reply #19 on: 01:19:11, 13-07-2007 » |
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Stretching a point only slightly, it could be like one of those Alvin Lucier pieces that consist mainly of a single slow glissando, like this one - (here's a photo of a performance by Charles Curtis:  ) The cellist plays a very long slow glissando from bottom to top of the instrument's range, pausing to play a few pizzicato notes, on the pitch that the glissando is passing through, when that pitch moves into a resonant relationship with one of the (highly amplified) vases in front of the player. It's rather beautiful, and there really isn't anything you could call an interval. The title, however, is the imaginative Music for Cello and One or More Amplified Vases |
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« Reply #20 on: 10:12:20, 13-07-2007 » |
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The main Monday events are both big occasions receiving television coverage; in this case I'd very happily attend either, though I'd rather have been at the 1984 Prom, which work made impossible. I do still have the video and a reel-to-reel copy of it, though. In the stores, somewhere.....
Monday 23 July 1984
Royal Albert Hall: 7.00pm
Sir Michael Tippett
The Mask of Time
first European performance
Part 1 (43 mins)
Interval
Part 2 (52 mins)
Faye Robinson soprano
Felicity Palmer mezzo-soprano
Kenneth Riegel tenor
John Cheek bass
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Andrew Davis
Monday 16 July 2007
Antonio Pappano, best known in the UK as the Music Director of the Royal Opera, brings his Rome orchestra to the Proms with an eclectic exploration of two works by fellow Italians. Rossini's operatic setting of the Stabat mater with a young all-star cast contrasts with a seminal work by Berio, in which the composer audaciously reflects and reinterprets the music of the past. The Swingle Singers – who gave the Sinfonia's UK premiere at the Proms in 1969 – lend both virtuosity and authenticity.
Berio
Sinfonia (35 mins)
Interval
Rossini
Stabat mater (61 mins)
Emma Bell soprano
Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano
Lawrence Brownlee tenor
Ildar Abdrazakov bass
Swingle Singers
Chorus and Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome
Antonio Pappano conductor
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« Reply #21 on: 10:33:57, 13-07-2007 » |
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I'd rather have been at the 1984 Prom I wos  A great occasion with Faye Robinson particularly splendid IIRC. So far in this thread, I think I've been inclining towards the 1984 Proms in each case.....but largely because I would be 23 years younger again  [Just looked out the programme for nostalgia's sake. It turns out that in the event Jon Garrison replaced Kenneth Riegel in the tenor part. I think I now vaguely remember that it was one of those heroic "had to learn the part in three days" crises but I may be wrong on that.] |
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« Reply #22 on: 15:33:35, 14-07-2007 » |
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We come to the first Tuesday of the Proms seasons in 1984 and the present day. Only one Prom in 1984, but two this year, the second of which, according to a trail, will be 'memorable'. So the others won't be? How can they be sure in advance anyway?
Tuesday 24 July 1984
Royal Albert Hall: 7:30pm
Delius
The Walk to the Paradise Garden (9 mins)
Nicholas Maw
Scenes and Arias (30 mins)
Interval
Bax
Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor (40 mins)
Alison Hargan soprano
Eilene Hannan mezzo-soprano
Linda Finnie contralto
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Raymond Leppard
Tuesday 17 July 2007
Royal Albert Hall: 7:00pm
Sam Hayden's new work, the first of ten BBC commissions this season, raises the curtain on a transatlantic programme conducted by the BBC SO’s dynamic Californian-born Principal Guest Conductor. Bernstein's The Age of Anxiety, inspired by Auden, launches our centenary celebration of this UK-born but US-drawn poet, and is based on the poem Bernstein saw as 'a record of our difficult search for faith'.The first of two Ives symphonies this year (see also Prom 64) is the innovative Fourth, whose practical and musical demands are so great that it only received its first complete UK performance at the Proms in 1966.
Sam Hayden
Substratum (BBC commission: world premiere) (15 mins)
Bernstein
Symphony No. 2, 'The Age of Anxiety' (36 mins)
Interval
Ives
Symphony No. 4 (32 mins)
Orli Shaham piano
Ralph van Raat piano
London Philharmonic Choir
BBC Symphony Orchestra
David Robertson conductor
Royal Albert Hall: 10:15pm
The first Late Night Prom of the season features a major rediscovery by harpsichordist and musicologist Davitt Moroney of the lavish multi-part Mass by Alessandro Striggio. The concert begins with The Tallis Scholars and the BBC Singers conducted by Peter Phillips in Striggio's celebrated 40-part motet Ecce beatam lucem, alongside Tallis's immortal Spem in alium, reputedly the result of a challenge by the fourth Duke of Norfolk, for Tallis to equal Striggio's 40-part triumph.
There will be no interval
Striggio
Motet 'Ecce beatam lucem' (8 mins)
Lassus
Motet and Magnificat 'Aurora lucis rutilat' (11 mins)
Tallis
Spem in alium (9 mins)
Striggio
Mass 'Ecco si beato giorno' in 40 and 60 parts (first performance in modern times) (28 mins) *
Gary Cooper Organ (continuo)
Timothy Roberts Harpsichord (continuo)
BBC Singers
Tallis Scholars
His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts
Continuo Group
Peter Phillips conductor
Davitt Moroney conductor *
Interestingly, nobody as yet has commented on the choice of repertoire for the first Proms of the 1984 season...
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« Reply #23 on: 13:39:56, 15-07-2007 » |
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I shall be at both on Tuesday. If I can remember them afterwards, will that make them memorable? q;o)
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« Reply #24 on: 17:47:22, 15-07-2007 » |
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The fifth main concert of the 1984 season was the first to include any music not by a British composer; the first weekend had been arranged to be a mini festival in its own right. Even this, though, still contained a British work. Last year’s prom by the Orchestre Nationale was singled out in the other place for containing the worst orchestral sound, a point that Tombeau de Couperin satirised in the parallel Circle Line of Fifths thread by having his fictitious French orchestra combine with a British one: humourous or not, it’s turned out to be a stunningly accurate prediction...
Wednesday 25 July 1984
Haydn
Symphony No. 95 in C minor (23 mins)
Britten
Violin Concerto (34 mins)
Interval
Beethoven
Symphony No. 5 in C minor (34 mins)
Ernst Kovacic violin
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Gunther Herbig
Wenesday 18 July 2007
A leading interpreter of the Austro-German symphonic repertory, Kurt Masur spends his 80th birthday at the Proms in a unique collaboration between the British and French orchestras with which he holds principal conductor positions. While Bruckner's magnificent Seventh Symphony contains a memorial to Wagner, Tchaikovsky's lyrically flowing Serenade, written 'from inner compulsion', was intended as a tribute to Mozart.
Tchaikovsky
Serenade for Strings (30 mins)
Interval
Bruckner
Symphony No. 7 in E major (70 mins)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestre National de France
Kurt Masur conductor
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the Buskaid Soweto String Project, which brings high-level string training to young underprivileged South Africans That's a lovely ensemble! I was involved in the organisation of a concert given by Buskaid here in Maassluis when they were on their Dutch tour a couple of years ago: http://www.ikonrtv.nl/desmetlive/uitzending.asp?oId=1591It was a wonderful concert. A friend of mine interviewed Rosemary Nalden that evening. I made some recordings (low quality): I'll see if I can find them somewhere. |
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Thursday 26 July 1984
Mussorgsky
St John’s Night on the Bare Mountain (original version) (11mins)
Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No.3 in C major (25 mins)
Interval
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.5 in E minor (46 mins)
Peter Donohoe piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Marek Janowski
Thurs 19 July 2007
The BBC Philharmonic's Russian Chief Guest Conductor makes a welcome return to the Proms, with music from Russia and bordering Estonia. Rakhmaninov glanced backwards to Paganini in his virtuosic Rhapsody but fellow Russian Glière crossed centuries in his epic nationalistic Third Symphony, depicting the exploits of the 12th-century mythical hero Ilya Murometz in vast sonorities ideally suited to the Royal Albert Hall.
Arvo Pärt
Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten (7 mins)
Rakhmaninov
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (24 mins)
Interval
Glière
Symphony No.3 'Ilya Murometz' (80 mins)
Nelson Goerner piano
BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky conductor
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Friday 27 July 1984
Berlioz
King Lear Overture (15 mins)
Brahms
Violin Concerto in D major (41 mins)
Interval
Bartók
Concerto for Orchestra (38 minutes)
Ida Haendel violin
London Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Yuri Simonov
Friday 20 July 2007
n his first Prom as the BBC NOW's new Principal Conductor, Thierry Fischer conducts an all-French programme, contrasting Berlioz's blazing, autobiographical Symphonie fantastique with two major works introduced to the UK at the Proms: Ravel's darkly jazzy Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, written for the war-injured Paul Wittgenstein, and the now 91-year-old Henri Dutilleux's restrained and moving cantata The Shadows of Time, which commemorates the tragic losses of the Second World War.
Henri Dutilleux
The Shadows of Time (21 mins)
Ravel
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (18 mins)
Interval
Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique (50 mins)
Roger Muraro piano
Choristers from Eton College Chapel Choir
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer conductor
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I definitely go for the berliox/Brahms/Bartok over the Dutilleux/Ravel/Berlioz
Previous night is a much closer call!
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« Reply #29 on: 23:37:19, 20-07-2007 » |
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Saturday 28 July 1984
Dvo?ák
Amid Nature (13 mins)
Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor (36 mins)
Interval
Janá?ek
Taras Bulba (24 mins)
Dvo?ák
Slavonic Dances:
in C major, Op 46 No. 1 (4 mins)
in E minor, Op. 72 No.2 (6 mins)
in A flat major, Op.46. No. 3 (4 mins)
Alfred Brendel piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Sir Charles Groves
Saturday 21 July 2007
Royal Abert Hall: 11.00 am
(This concert will not be broadcast)
Spend a fun-packed, riotous morning in the company of Peter Duncan, Gemma Hunt, the BBC Philharmonic, youth choirs and the funky Bollywood Brass Band. Our concert includes Connie Fisher singing My Favourite Things, the blazing brass of Copland's ceremonial Fanfare for the Common Man and Elgar's 'Land of Hope and Glory' – a traditional Last Night of the Proms favourite. This year's Proms Shakespeare theme also makes an appearance in classics inspired by Romeo and Juliet from Prokofiev and Bernstein – and there’s even Stravinsky's arrangement of 'Happy Birthday To You', written for the 80th birthday of conductor Pierre Monteux, but here marking the 80th anniversary of the BBC's association with the Proms.
There will be one interval.
Jamboree!
Peter Duncan presenter
Gemma Hunt presenter
Connie Fisher singer
New London Children's Choir
Southend Boys’ and Girls’ Choirs
Bollywood Brass Band
Honey Kalaria and Honey's Dance Academy
BBC Philharmonic
Tecwyn Evans conductor
Royal Albert Hall: 7.00 pm
Debussy
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (8 mins)
Saint-Saëns
Cello Concerto No.1 in A minor (20 mins)
Interval
Fauré
Cantique de Jean Racine (6 mins)
Fauré
Requiem (35 mins)
Steven Isserlis cello
William Dutton treble
Russell Braun baritone
BBC National Chorus of Wales
National Youth Choir of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer conductor
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