Tag Archives: Royal Albert Hall

the other 2024 anniversary

Posted on September 16, 2024 by vhk10

Visiting London for a conference, I was able to take in the only Prom of the season with any hardcore Second Viennese School in it, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tarmo Peltokoski. Schoenberg’s anniversary has not received a … Continue reading →

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Poulenc through glass

Posted on August 31, 2023 by vhk10

I didn’t plan my Proms season, and my decision to go to the Glyndebourne Prom performance of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites was a spontaneous one made earlier that day. This opera (did any have a more offputting title?) is one … Continue reading →

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the last night but not the Last Night

Posted on September 16, 2022 by vhk10

I hadn’t been to a Prom since 2019 and was determined to fit one in from this season, choosing Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis performed by the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique conducted by John Eliot Gardiner, on the Wednesday of the final … Continue reading →

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my Prom for 2019

Posted on September 28, 2019 by vhk10

I try to get to at least one Promenade concert every year, and this year picked a Sunday evening concert with a predominantly East European programme. This was the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov. I chose it … Continue reading →

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the penultimate night of the Proms

Posted on September 29, 2018 by vhk10

Time was when this was always Beethoven 9. This year it was Handel’s Theodora with Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo, and as I was in London that day I decided to go. Theodora is an odd one out among Handel’s oratorios. … Continue reading →

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when does a Willis not sound like a Willis?

Posted on August 8, 2018 by vhk10

Having a free morning before my own Proms performance, I got wind of the Sunday organ recital by the Latvian organist Iveta Apkalna and took the opportunity to go along. I would not normally be around in London on a … Continue reading →

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Gloomy Mahler (1): Prom 72

Posted on October 1, 2017 by vhk10

I happened to have a ticket to London on the day the Vienna Philharmonic under Daniel Harding were performing Mahler’s Sixth Symphony. Just that – the need to fit a 2-hour concert later in the evening meant that even with … Continue reading →

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my Proms début

Posted on August 16, 2017 by vhk10

I don’t take occasions like this for granted. After many years of going to Promenade concerts I was finally on the other side of the stage in the choir stalls as an ‘extra’ with the BBC National Chorus of Wales. … Continue reading →

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I sell my soul to a Prom

Posted on July 15, 2017 by vhk10

I have a long-standing ambition to sing at a Promenade concert, and one of the things that attracted me to Bristol Choral Society was the occasional involvement of its members in these concerts (most recently in 2016 and before that … Continue reading →

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Prom 2: Bryn sings Boris

Posted on July 19, 2016 by vhk10

After a busy day of 3 Choirs rehearsal at Gloucester Cathedral I leapt on a train to London and we went to hear Boris Godunov, with pretty much the same cast as was in the cinema relay of the ROH … Continue reading →

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