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    Pretty impressive Proms season so far

    Where else could you hear, within one week, Belshazzar's Feast, Child of our Time, Turangalila and Bernstein's Mass - and they aren't even the sole main events of the season. Plus a complete LvB cycle, Bruckner 8... and it's only the end of the first week in August. And Bach's B minor Mass and Mahler 7 as well.

    And the weekend to come: Apostles, Berlioz Grande Messe and Gurrelieder!!! With Grimes sailing by not long after. And Hymnus Paradisi....

    Strong year for the Proms, I think

    (Admittedly if you don't like choral music, you're screwed!! )
    Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 07-08-12, 09:19. Reason: Woeful omissions
    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."


    #2
    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
    Strong year for the Proms, I think
    Totally agree, Hymnus

    And, on the whole, such good performances - the Chamber Music and Late-Nighters, too.
    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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      #3
      And the best is yet to come, on the 17th of this very month. Has anyone else here yet navigated their way through the booking process for a 6pm music walk? Not the simplest of procedures.

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        #4
        Originally posted by Bryn View Post
        And the best is yet to come, on the 17th of this very month.
        There's a not-at-all-bad one coming up this Saturday afternoon, too.

        Four British works from the past 45 years – by Birtwistle, Elias, Ferneyhough and Finnissy – performed by the Britten Sinfonia.
        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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          #5
          Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
          There's a not-at-all-bad one coming up this Saturday afternoon, too.

          http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/whats-on/...ugust-11/14330
          Which, regrettably, I can't get to. I will have to rely on the iPlayer offering.

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            #6
            There hasn't been that aching dullness that characterised much of the Kenyon era.

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              #7
              Originally posted by Alison View Post
              There hasn't been that aching dullness that characterised much of the Kenyon era.
              ad infinitum;

              ... and, if you will forgive the impertinence,
              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                #8
                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                ad infinitum;

                ... and, if you will forgive the impertinence,
                Watch him, Alison....

                "...the isle is full of noises,
                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                  #9
                  I thoroughly agree, it's been a pleasure!

                  How nice to be positive for a change

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                    #10
                    The early weeks of the Kenyon years had you just waiting around for the bigger named performers who feature later in August and through the last

                    two or three weeks.. We get a proper Proms season now.

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by Alison View Post
                      The early weeks of the Kenyon years had you just waiting around for the bigger named performers who feature later in August and through the last

                      two or three weeks.. We get a proper Proms season now.
                      This years is OK so far.

                      I seem to remember 2003 was a good one!

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                        This years is OK so far.

                        I seem to remember 2003 was a good one!
                        Such a hot Summer tho, 2003 - RAH must've been like a giant sauna ... without any of the benefits

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                          Such a hot Summer tho, 2003 - RAH must've been like a giant sauna ... without any of the benefits
                          How can you remember?! Either the season or the weather?

                          Just looked back at the season - don't even quite remember which concerts we went to.... with one exception, this unforgettable gem:

                          Wednesday 10 September 2003 10.00pm

                          J. S. Bach - Cantata No. 170, 'Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust', BWV 170
                          Rameau - L' Apothéose de la Dance (suite devised Minkowski)
                          Handel - Ariodante, HWV 35

                          Les Musiciens du Louvre
                          Marc Minkowski conductor
                          Anne Sofie Otter mezzo-soprano


                          "...the isle is full of noises,
                          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                            #14
                            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                            (Admittedly if you don't like choral music, you're screwed!! )
                            When I heard Petroc run through some of the forthcoming concerts I did think that it's very much a choral season - or should that be festival? Perhaps the Choir thread should lift it's head out of the hymn book & discuss some of the choirs performing in the Proms

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                              #15
                              Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                              a giant sauna ... without any of the benefits
                              Ooh, I've known moments in the Arena ...

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