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Oh dear, martle, you were misled by the fact that I inadvertantly put only the two 1984 concerts up first - now corrected - so you've just chosen between two in the same year. Yesterday's are now posted too; but even despite the Langridge recital, it would have to be 1984 for the Gerhard, for me. I was lucky enough to see both Leo and Libra plus the Sardana at a Sinfonietta concert in 1970 or 71, where the Tippett Songs for Dov received their London premiere, ahead of the opera from which they evolved, IIRC.
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #152 on: 21:59:26, 14-08-2007 » |
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Tuesday 21 Aug 1984
Stravinsky
Jeu de Cartes (24 mins)
Schumann
Cello concerto in A minor (24 mins)
Interval
Thomas Wilson
Carmina Sacra (17 mins)
Mozart
Symphony No. 36 in C major, K. 425 (Linz) (28 mins)
Neil Mackie tenor
Robert Cohen cello
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk
Tuesday 14 August 2007
American jazz pianist Marcus Roberts and his trio bring their unique reinterpretation of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, throwing their own improvisations into the mix.The episodes from Bernstein's New York-based musical charting the exploits of three young sailors on shore-leave takes its place alongside Stravinsky's vivid Russian folk-infused ballet Petrushka. Robert Spano, one of America's most dynamic conductors, makes his Proms debut.
Stravinsky
Petrushka (1947) (34 mins)
Interval
Bernstein
On the Town – Three Dance Episodes (10 mins)
Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue (with additional improvisation) (30 mins)
Marcus Roberts piano
Marcus Roberts Trio
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Robert Spano conductor
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« Reply #153 on: 22:07:12, 14-08-2007 » |
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« Reply #154 on: 00:01:59, 15-08-2007 » |
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Mart,
I can see we are going to have to put you in a small box with David Tennant. Have you thught about replacing Freema Agyemann? Stepping into Billie Piper's shoes?
Tommo
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« Reply #155 on: 00:03:40, 15-08-2007 » |
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #156 on: 00:15:23, 15-08-2007 » |
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Wednesday 22 August 1984
Haydn
Symphony No.81 in G major (24 mins)
Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major (29 mins)
Interval
Peter Maxwell Davies
Sinfonietta Accademica (28 mins)
Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio espagnol (15 mins)
Tamás Vársáry piano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk
Wednesday 15 August 2007
Tonight's Prom brings together this season's Shakespeare theme and the 50th anniversary of Sibelius's death. Osmo Vänskä, one of the Finnish composer's leading interpreters, conducts a rare performance of the complete incidental music for The Tempest, a work which, along with the last completed symphony, presents a late pinnacle of the composer’s career, before his early, 30-year retirement.
Sibelius
The Tempest – complete incidental music (sung in Finnish) (67 mins)
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Sibelius
Songs with orchestra:
Höstkväll, Op. 38 No. 1 (5 mins) sol. Juntunen
Hertig Magnus Op. 57 No. 6 (3.30 mins) sol. Juntunen
Arioso, Op. 3 (4 mins) sol. Juntunen
Demanten på marssnön, Op. 36 No. 6 (3 mins) sol. Paasikivi
Den första kyssen, Op. 37 No. 1 (2 mins) sol. Paasikivi
Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte, Op. 37 No. 5 (3 mins) sol. Paasikivi
Autrefois (Scène pastorale), Op. 96b (5.40 mins) sol. Juntunen & Paasikivi
Symphony No. 7 in C major (23 mins)
Helena Juntunen soprano
Lilli Paasikivi mezzo-soprano
Juha Hostikka tenor
Petri Lehto tenor
Ville Rusanen baritone
Dominante
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä conductor
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« Reply #157 on: 00:20:22, 15-08-2007 » |
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Mart,
Can you fit me in that box with the Doctor?
Tommo
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« Reply #158 on: 09:48:07, 15-08-2007 » |
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« Reply #159 on: 19:15:23, 15-08-2007 » |
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Thursday 23 August 1984
Mozart
Symphony No 29 in A major, K.201 (22mins)
Piano Concerto No 9 in E flat major, K.271 (31 mins)
Interval
Piano Concerto No 21 in C major, K. 467 (30 mins)
Murray Perahia piano
English Chamber Orchestra
Directed by Murray Perahia
Thursday 16 August 2007
Royal Albert Hall: 7.00pm
The evergreen Piano Concerto by Grieg, boasting an illustrious Russian soloist, is paired with Grieg's funeral march for a fellow Norwegian composer who died tragically young – the piece which Grieg wished to be played at his own funeral. Andrew Litton, making his first Proms appearance with his new Bergen orchestra – which hails from Grieg’s home town – characteristically revives a great British symphony, which Walton described as 'the climax of my youth'.
Grieg, orch Halvorsen
Funeral March for Rikard Nordraak (8 mins)
Grieg
Piano Concerto in A minor Op.16 (30 mins)
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Walton
Symphony No. 1 in B flat minor (43 mins)
Boris Berezovsky piano
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Litton conductor
Royal Albert Hall: 10.15pm
Three classic works commissioned by the Proms while under the inspired directorship of John Drummond, who sadly died last year. James MacMillan's percussion concerto, played tonight by former Radio 3 New Generation Artist Colin Currie, has received nearly 400 performances since its world premiere here in 1992. Lutoslawski’s evocative setting of French children's poems was premiered in 1991 by tonight’s soloist; and Birtwistle's Panic famously created a stir at its premiere during Drummond's final Last Night in 1995.
James Macmillan
Veni, veni Emmanuel (29 mins)
Lutoslawski
Chantefleurs et Chantefables (20 mins)
Sir Harrison Birtwistle
Panic (15 mins
Colin Currie percussion
Solveig Kringelborn soprano
Martin Robertson alto saxophone
Peter Erskine drums
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins conductor
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« Reply #160 on: 19:53:04, 15-08-2007 » |
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As it's the Albert Hall we're talking about  , I think it might be 2007. The Walton would be the draw and it's an Albert Hall sort of piece. If however (since time travel seems to be a doddle I assume a bit of spatial relocation wouldn't add much to the fare?) we could relocate to, oh I don't know, the Musikverein? , it would be 1984. I seem to remember that the ECO/Perahia combination was a particularly hot one at that time. [Method No 7 of having my cake at least twice.] |
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« Reply #161 on: 10:38:49, 16-08-2007 » |
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I've just updated today's Prom with the late evening concert.
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« Reply #162 on: 19:16:28, 16-08-2007 » |
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Full expert analysis of tonights Walton perfromance please, Mr Dough.
I have this down as one of your your specialisms.
Thanks ever so.
ps Anyone been to an ECO concert in recent years ??
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« Reply #163 on: 22:33:37, 16-08-2007 » |
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A specialism indeed, Ali, though it's going to have to wait for a few hours yet, as I'm involved in other things right now, though listening to Prom 2 as I proceed. What a weird balance for Veni, Veni - as if the orchestra were in a separate enclosed space behind the percussion.
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« Reply #164 on: 22:45:51, 16-08-2007 » |
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Yes, very strange sound, typifying the poor season overall in that regard.
In former times I would delight just to hear a top quality relay from the Proms, even of pieces not normally regarded as favourites.
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