I'm looking forward to hearing this a lot - particularly the Striggio Mass. It will be my first late night Prom, so I must find out how to get home from it!

There's nothing better to listen to late at night than the music of this era though.

I only just heard about this, and am kicking myself for missing it when broadcast. Which makes the usual chores slightly more interesting, or would, if I could drag myself away to do them.

Ooo! goody! excited jumping around!
Thank you David.

Well, more by accident then planning, I ended up right at the front of the Arena, 'on the rail' for the Striggio, Lassus and Tallis Late Prom. Most enjoyable, and not at all the anti-climax I was expecting after the Ives 4th. That seemed a better performance than it will probably sound when I listen to the recording. This due to the what seemed to me two rather lack-lustre works/performances that comprised the first part of the early concert. Sorry Sam Hayden fans, I found the 'unbegun'  “Substratum” a rather tiresome listen, and as for the Bernstein ... . I was particularly anxious that it not go on much longer, after the first few minutes.

I was towards the back of the Arena for that early Prom, and thought the sound much worse since the 'improvements'. The Piano in the Bernstein, and the snare drum too, echoed horribly, possibly even worse than before the flying saucers went up.

That bass (contra-bass?) sackbut player was a real star.

Come on now, fair's fair: if he stopped making the sound at the same time as everybody else at the mouthpiece end it would presumably take quite a little while longer for the cessation to reach the bell...