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Sunday 29 July 1984
Westminster Abbey: 7.30pm
Monteverdi
Vespers of the Blessed Virgin (1610) (95mins)
Nancy Argenta soprano
Elizabeth Lane soprano
Michael Chance alto
Mark Tucker tenor
Nigel Robson tenor
Richard Jackson baritone
Stephen Varcoe baritone
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
Conductor John Eliot Gardiner
"The audience is asked to be seated by 7.25pm; latecomers can be accommodated only at the back of the nave. Season tickets are not valid for this concert, and there are no Promenade places."
Sunday 22 July 2007
Royal Albert Hall: 11.00am
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: 7.30pm
Broadcast on BBC FOUR
Live on BBC Radio 3
Australia's national children's choir, Gondwana Voices, visits the Proms for a large-scale choral commission from one of Australia's leading musical talents. Striking a blow against reality television, the dehumanisation of modern society and the warped language of corporate jargon, Brett Dean's 'sociological cantata' shares a social conscience with Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, whose first performance, in December 1813, was at a benefit concert in Vienna for soldiers wounded in the Napoleonic Battle of Hanau. It was also the last work Sir Henry Wood conducted before his death in 1944.
Brett Dean
Vexations and Devotions (BBC co-commission: European premiere) (35 mins)
Interval
Beethoven
Symphony No.7 in A major (42 mins)
Gondwana Voices
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
David Robertson conductor
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« Reply #31 on: 23:42:19, 22-07-2007 » |
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Monday 30 July 1984
Handel
Concerto Grosso in G major, Op.6 No.1 (14 mins)
Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No.3 in G major (12 mins)
Concerto in D minor for two violins (17 mins)
Interval
Vivaldi
The Four Seasons (50 mins)
Iona Brown violin
Malcolm Latchem violin
The Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields
Director Iona Brown
Monday 23 July 2007
Cadogan Hall:1.00pm
There will be no interval.
Mozart
Sonata in E minor for Violin and Piano, K304 (13 mins)
Aaron Jay Kernis
New Work (BBC commission; world premiere) (12 mins)
Elgar
Sonata in E minor for Violin and Piano, Op.82 (28 mins)
James Ehnes violin
Eduard Laurel piano
Royal Albert Hall: 7.00pm
Broadcast on BBC FOUR
Live on BBC Radio 3
The historic Handel and Haydn Society makes its Proms debut with its Artistic Advisor Sir Roger Norrington – one of the most invigorating figures of the early music world. Haydn moved away from the typical religious or mythical oratorio subjects in his ode to nature (based on a poem by James Thomson, better known to Proms audiences for his words to the Last Night favourite 'Rule, Britannia!'). With characteristic flair, Haydn celebrated the timeless passing of the seasons in musical scenes and dances depicting country life.
Haydn
The Seasons (sung in German) (130 mins)
There will be one interval
Sally Matthews soprano
James Gilchrist tenor
Jonathan Lemalu bass-baritone
Handel and Haydn Society of Boston
Sir Roger Norrington conductor
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Tuesday 31 July 1984
Stravinsky
Monumentum pro Gesualdo di Verona ad CD annum (8 mins)
Mozart
Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major, K.364 (32 mins)
Interval
Hans Werner Henze
Cinque Piccoli Concerti (23 mins)
first UK performance
Mozart
Symphony No.40 in G minor, K.550 (27 mins)
Yuzuko Horigome violin
Nobuko Imai viola
English Chamber Orchestra
Conducted by Sir Alexander Gibson
Tuesday 24 July 2007
Royal Albert Hall:7.00pm
Verdi
Macbeth (semi-staged; sung in Italian) revised version (1865) with final scene from original (1847) version (140 mins)
There will be one interval
Sylvie Valayre Lady Macbeth
Andrzej Dobber Macbeth
Stanislav Shvets Banquo
Peter Auty Macduff
Bryan Griffin Malcolm
Richard Mosley-Evans Doctor/Servant/Herald
Svetlana Sozdateleva Lady-in-Waiting
Douglas Rice-Bowen Assassin
Julie Pasturaud A Lady
Derek Townend Duncan
Luke Owen Fleanzio
Viggee Harding Hecate
Christopher Dixon Apparition 1
George Evans-Thomas Apparition 2
Martha Jurowski Apparition 3
Glyndebourne Chorus
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski conductor
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« Reply #33 on: 13:58:30, 24-07-2007 » |
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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)
Interval
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
Wednesday 25 July 2007
Royal Albert Hall: 7.00pm
New York-born Marin Alsop conducts a programme reflecting the substantial body of American works introduced at the Proms in the 1940s and 1950s. Barber's lushly romantic Violin Concerto is heard alongside Copland's iconic folk-influenced symphony, which helped to define the sound of American orchestral music.While Copland's symphony quotes his famous Fanfare for the Common Man, Beethoven's overture composed for his opera Fidelio also represents the struggle for freedom.
Beethoven
Overture – Leonore No. 3 (14 mins)
Barber
Violin Concerto (25 mins)
Interval
Copland
Symphony No. 3 (43 mins)
James Ehnes violin
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop conductor
Wednesday 25 July 2007
Royal Albert Hall: 10.00pm
Richard Hickox, a familiar figure at the Proms and one of the country's most versatile conductors, returns with his period-instrument forces in a late-night performance of the florid Alma virgo by Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Haydn's successor at the Esterházy court. Schubert's sixth and last Mass is a majestic setting, made at the end of the composer's life. Susan Gritton leads a cast of outstanding British soloists.
Hummel
Alma virgo (7 mins)
Schubert
Mass in E flat major, D950 (55 mins)
There will be no interval
Susan Gritton soprano
Pamela Helen Stephen mezzo-soprano
Mark Padmore tenor
James Gilchrist tenor
Matthew Rose bass
Collegium Musicum 90
Richard Hickox conductor
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« Reply #34 on: 15:48:30, 24-07-2007 » |
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I'll be going to tomorrow's 7.00 start, and have to say I woudl prefer that to 1984's programme.
Would love to go to the late nighter tomorrow but not sure I'll be able to get home if I do!
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« Reply #35 on: 16:10:55, 24-07-2007 » |
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Maybe unsurprisingly, completely the opposite reaction from me, Ron! 1984!! (I wasn't even the country that year  ) |
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« Reply #36 on: 17:19:11, 24-07-2007 » |
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Svetlana Sozdateleva Lady-in-Waiting
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« Reply #37 on: 17:37:06, 24-07-2007 » |
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Speak-up, caller, you're through!
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Svetlana Sozdateleva Lady-in-Waiting
Now I have a feeling one of our august company might have something to say about her... And perhaps a few members might find her face strangely familiar... |
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« Reply #39 on: 09:09:49, 25-07-2007 » |
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Thursday 2 August 1984
Mozart
Symphony No.32 in G major (Overture in the Italian Style) K.318 (9 mins)
Britten
Piano Concerto (34 mins)
Interval
Shostakovich
Symphony No.10 (53 mins)
Michael Roll piano
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Rudolph Barshai
Thursday 26 July 2007
The BBC SO's Conductor Laureate returns for a trio of major British works given their world premieres at the Proms since the BBC took over their running in 1927. Delius's evocative A Song of Summer was premiered in the relative calm of the interwar years.Vaughan Williams conducted the premiere of his Fifth Symphony during the Blitz of 1943, after which Adrian Boult wrote to him: 'Its serene loveliness is completely satisfying in these times and shows, as only music can, what we must work for when this madness is over.' Tippett's radiant and virtuosic Triple Concerto, here played by three outstanding young soloists, shows the influence of Indonesian gamelan music, which the composer had heard on a trip to Java and Bali.
Delius
A Song of Summer (9 mins)
Tippett
Triple Concerto (32 mins)
Interval
Vaughan Williams
Symphony No.5 (40 mins)
Daniel Hope violin
Philip Dukes viola
Christian Poltéra cello
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis conductor
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« Reply #40 on: 09:32:36, 25-07-2007 » |
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Very interesting thread, thanks Ron. I'm very struck by the consistency of programming between 1984 and 2007, almost as if nothing has changed in the meantime: Berio's Sinfonia turning up in both, the British composers (VW, Walton, Tippett, Delius etc.) being more or less the same crowd in both. I'm not one for following fashion for its own sake, but it seems to me more than a little disturbing that (apart from the presence of Sam Hayden) the programmes could be swapped around without anyone noticing, a generation later.
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« Reply #41 on: 09:40:40, 25-07-2007 » |
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And the performers, Richard?
Seems to me to have too much BBCSO whatever the season. I'd like to see longer stints and more frequent from the great American, Russian, and German groups as well as more of the early music specialists.
Tommo
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« Reply #42 on: 09:53:41, 25-07-2007 » |
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I suppose you're right, Tommo. But I can imagine that the BBCSO is vastly less expensive for the BBC to hire.
The BBCSO comes in for a great deal of flak, but the circumstances under which they're expected to work can't be conducive to the best results.
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« Reply #43 on: 09:57:20, 25-07-2007 » |
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The BBC doesn't have to 'hire' the BBCSO, does it? That's the point. They're already contracted, salaried and thus 'paid for', so obviously a hell of a lot cheaper. And yes, they are horrendously overworked at the Proms. Under those circumstances they do a pretty admirable job, I think.
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« Reply #44 on: 10:09:03, 25-07-2007 » |
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That was actually more my point - I'm sure the BBCSO are great when they are given the chance, but I was complaining more about the circumstances. How can they do a fantastic job when they have to do so many works?
I sher the constraint must be money, but I wish it were not so.
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