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« on: 16:29:42, 10-04-2007 » |
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Thought I'd kick off our own Proms 2007 discussions with a question, which composers deserve a proms performance this year?
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richard barrett
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« Reply #1 on: 16:35:10, 10-04-2007 » |
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I think quite a reasonable and varied programme could be put together using only works by r3ok members.
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John W
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« Reply #2 on: 16:48:23, 10-04-2007 » |
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heh, heh, Hey Richard I didn't ask your permission but have you noticed the CD cover featured in one this forum's links?  |
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autoharp
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« Reply #3 on: 16:50:37, 10-04-2007 » |
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How about Rued Langgaard's Sfaerernes Musik ?
Some hope !
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« Reply #4 on: 17:06:24, 10-04-2007 » |
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not really on-topic but here is the official proms 2007 picture (nabbed from the facebook.com Proms group)  there's a surprising amount of information about the Proms already out there (i've been collecting it assiduously [sp?]) shall i post it? |
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richard barrett
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« Reply #5 on: 17:08:20, 10-04-2007 » |
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I hadn't noticed that, John. Good luck to anyone trying to get hold of a copy though.
I've never heard any Langgaard though I suppose I ought to, it seems like the kind of thing I might like. Must put that on the list.
How about one of Sorabji's piano concertos? (with Ian playing the solo part of course) Apart from which, there's never enough Xenakis in the Proms for my liking, or Finnissy or Holliger or...
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John W
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« Reply #6 on: 17:11:00, 10-04-2007 » |
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there's a surprising amount of information about the Proms already out there (i've been collecting it assiduously [sp?])
shall i post it?
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« Reply #8 on: 17:21:13, 10-04-2007 » |
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To return to a piece discussed not long ago, the Zimmermann Requiem would be ideal for the Proms and the Albert Hall. And I believe it would make a truly major impression if someone had the vision to programme it there.
Also the Holliger Scardanelli-Zyklus.
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« Reply #9 on: 17:30:53, 10-04-2007 » |
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Then there's Brian's "Gothic" Symphony, of course; it's about time that piece had a really first class airing (especially since it dwarfs all the other 31 by a distance in stature).
Come to that, what about a programme including a work by Richard along with Tilson Thomas's Urban Legend as discussed earlier today in another thread - then one could have "No!" and "Yes!" in the same concert...
(Sorry, Richard, I take it back, every word of it, honest!...)
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Alistair
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richard barrett
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« Reply #10 on: 21:08:08, 10-04-2007 » |
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see if any of these whets your proverbial Well yes, that sounds like some damn weird, er, stuff. Let's hear it at the Proms. Is Langgaard's music generally like that? |
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autoharp
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« Reply #11 on: 22:34:05, 10-04-2007 » |
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Quite a bit of it is weird, but not in the same way as Sfaerernes Musik - which is the kind of piece which would benefit from performance in the Albert Hall, hence my choice. I'd like to find out more about some of the pieces from c.1948 which can be played, er, for ever. One is "Carl Nielsen, our great composer" which I'll give you next week. Another (I think) is Hel-Sfaerernes Musik http://www.langgaard.dk/musexx/musexxe.htm#helsfaererLots of interesting info at http://www.langgaard.dk/indexe.htm |
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« Reply #12 on: 22:59:34, 10-04-2007 » |
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Would love to hear a performance of Delius's Appalachia - never ever seen it advertised in prom concert or any concert come to that - maybe with the choir and everything its not thought financially viable  |
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« Reply #13 on: 19:27:22, 11-04-2007 » |
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i think Barrett's Vanity is long overdue a proper performance in this county as opposed to one of those maida vale gigs-the Proms would seem like an appropriate occasison,though inevitably some of the detail will go askew in such an acoustic.
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« Reply #14 on: 19:31:37, 11-04-2007 » |
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Well there you go then.
Barrett - Vanity
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Delius - Appalachia
BBC SO / Tadaaki Otaka
There's a sort of precedent for such intelligent programming, though not at the Proms.
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