The Proms

That sounRAB really cool! I must try it next year. In the meantime, I think I am booking to go to the Bach day on the 14th. Fingers crossed the tickets haven't gone since I looked earlier on.
 
I watched the start and finish of the R&H prom and thought it was brilliant . I've recorded the whole Prom so am looking forward to watching the complete show.
My favourite musical of all time is Oklahoma and I thought the orchestra and soloists were excellent . I've never heard of the John Wilson orchestra but their arrangements were completely in tune with the film score. I'm delighted he stuck to the film scores as I prefer them to the theatre productions.

I'm now going to watch the whole Prom and will making further comment.

I hated the idea of a Jamie Cullum prom as it has no relevance whatsoever with classical music and should not have been included. Still in the interests of fairness I said I'll give it a go but had to give up watching after a few minutes due to how appalling Jamie Cullum sounded.
 
Yes I am watching it (was there for the actual event last Sunday too). It sounRAB fabulous - the BBC do a terrific job of recording these things.

I know a lot of people don't count "showtune" stuff like this as proper classical but I don't care. It's incredibly rare to hear this stuff played with such a large orchestra now and with such a good conductor as John Wilson. If you go to see theatrical productions of the R&H shows now they are almost always cut down versions for only 8 or so musicians.

On the night I thought the South Pacific stuff later in the programme was the best, and some of the Sound of Music songs were really well done.
 
Thats quite interesting. I pretty much don't listen to much music between 1750 and about 1920. That is pretty much all of the standard stuff, I know. There are exceptions though, I adore Haydns quartets, and love Brahms. I have sung in all sorts of choirs all my life from small madrigal groups, through a cathedral choir and now a symphony chorus - that gives me a dose of romanticism. I guess for pleasure I will reach for a CD of Palestrina, Byrd, Monteverdi or Bach, and then Stravinsky, Tippett, Britten and my second god, Bart
 
The final section of Ein Heldenleben, the 'Hero's Retirement' movement, is one of my favourites. It's just a huge wash of gorgeous, glorious late-Romanticism of the sort that Strauss could pull off brilliantly.
 
I loved that opening duet with Simon Russell Beale and Daniel Evans. Never heard Daniel Evans before, but I've just googled him and apparently he's taking over as artistic director at the Crucible soon, which is my local theatre. :)

I'm fascinated by the sign language guy in this concert - I wish we could see him properly.
 
Interesting. I assumed it was gigantic! It looks a thousand feet high on TV (almost), with tier upon tier of seats and balconies. Going to any live concert is always special though.
 
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