Prom 30: Saturday 6th August ay 6.30 p.m. (NYO)

[Bryn]

I think you are winding me up!!

Even if its a slider in a straight line its known as winding them up and down.

Possibly a throw-back to wire-wound rheostats?

http://www.tech-faq.com/rheostat.html

[Norfolk Born]

Benjamin Grosvenor's appearance at the First Night is available (again) on the iPlayer until the 21st. No less impressive than that with the NYO (IMHO).

[Boilk]

Terrible scratching about on the decks and such poor orchestration in my view. I hope the BBC didn’t waste money on commissioning this work. Apart from being the grandson of the great Sergei Prokofiev I am wondering what Gabriel Prokofiev has done to deserve having a Proms performance of his works.

It was definitely not a BBC commission. As for "meriting" a performance at the Proms, Roger Wright would probably say that the Proms likes to take risks and "push the envelope". And the name "Gabriel Prokofiev" was surely going to garner curiosity anyway wasn't it?

[Ariosto]

Possibly a throw-back to wire-wound rheostats?

http://www.tech-faq.com/rheostat.html

That could well be the reason. I remember my electric train set had one of those and you could overheat it and get a nasty smell. (A bit like a hot conductor)*

* Electrical conductor, of course ...

[Elion]

Benjamin Grosvenor's appearance at the First Night is available (again) on the iPlayer until the 21st. No less impressive than that with the NYO (IMHO).

Here's a download link I found on another group for a selection of Benjamin Grosvenor live performances in early 2010, when he was 17. Some incredible playing here - perhaps most of all the Ravel Gaspard and Chopin 3rd Scherzo. This is in Apple Lossless format, zipped, so note that you'd need iTunes or another media player capable of playing Apple Lossless (ALAC) format recordings to play the material. And evidently some of these recordings are of 'unofficial' type.

Elion

https://rcpt.yousendit.com/119589188...057a42cdbcbfaf

Benjamin Grosvenor (age 17)

In recital on tour – USA, Japan, Germany, England: January-March 2010

Nikolai Kapustin (b.1937) – from Eight Concert Etudes Op. 40¹:
1 No.6 Pastoral Allegro moderato
2 No.7 Intermezzo Allegretto
3 No.3 Toccatina Allegro

4-8 Liszt – Sonata in B minor²

9 Chopin – Nocturne in C sharp minor Op. posth.³
10 Chopin – Scherzo No.3 in C sharp minor Op. 394

Ravel – Gaspard de la nuit²:
11 1. Ondine
12 2. Le gibet
13 3. Scarbo

encore:
14 Chopin arr. Liszt – Chant polonais No.5 Meine Freuden³

bonus track:
15 Le gibet (Ravel – Gaspard de la nuit)¹

¹ Janet Wallace Fine Arts Centre, St Paul, Minnesota 28 Feb 2010
² Schloss Dachau, Germany 13 Mar 2010
³ Philia Hall, Yokohama, Japan 26 Jan 2010
4 Wigmore Hall, London 15 Feb 2010

[Tristan Klingsor]

It was definitely not a BBC commission. As for "meriting" a performance at the Proms, Roger Wright would probably say that the Proms likes to take risks and "push the envelope". And the name "Gabriel Prokofiev" was surely going to garner curiosity anyway wasn't it?

More likely an initiative of NYO's shallow and opportunistic management.

[Stanfordian]

It was definitely not a BBC commission. As for "meriting" a performance at the Proms, Roger Wright would probably say that the Proms likes to take risks and "push the envelope". And the name "Gabriel Prokofiev" was surely going to garner curiosity anyway wasn't it?

I am most hearten that the truly awful Concerto for Turntable and Orchestra was not a BBC commission. I would certainly hope that a valuable slot in a prestigious BBC Prom concert would be allocated owing to a composer’s talent and not for mere "curiosity" value. If that was an example of "pushing the envelope" I fear it would alienate far more of the audience than would attract.