Don't worry, I'm not referring to Monty Python this time (though it's probably a good idea to remind you that the Monty Python Quiz 2.0 will close in about 12 hours:
http://www.kivafriends.org/index.php/topic,2317.20.html).
Classical music lovers on KF:
The BBC Proms 2008 are about to begin!
18 July to 13 September 2008
At least 84 concerts, all broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 (livestream:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio3.shtml) and available to listen on demand for a further week on
http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2008.
I am envying all those in London or close enough to attend - standing tickets on the day for GBP 5. Many of the world's best orchestras, choirs, soloists and conductors.
Some highlights I am particularly looking forward to:
* PCM 2, Monday 28 July, 1 PM BST: Monteverdi Volgendo il ciel / Monteverdi Lamento d'Arianna / Monteverdi Il ballo delle ingrate
I Fagiolini, Barokksolistene, Robert Hollingworth
* Prom 16, Tuesday 29 July, 7:30 PM BST: Butterworth A Shropshire Lad / Vaughan Williams Symphony No.8 in D minor /
Bruch Violin Concerto No.1 / R Strauss Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
Janine Jansen violin, Hallé, Mark Elder
* Prom 21, Saturday 2 August, 7:30 PM BST: Stockhausen Stimmung,
Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier
* Prom 36, Tuesday 12 August, 10:15 PM BST: Rachmaninov All-night vigil (Vespers)
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier
* Prom 41, Saturday 16 August, 6:30 PM BST: Handel Belshazzar
Paul Groves / Rosemary Joshua / Bejun Mehta / Iestyn Davies / Robert Gleadow, Choir of the Enlightenment, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment,
Sir Charles Mackerras
* Prom 43, Sunday 17 August, 7:30 PM BST: Mozart Symphony No.34 in C, K338 / Vaughan Williams Flos Campi / Nigel Osborne Flute Concerto /
Beethoven Mass in C
Rebecca Evans / Pamela Helen Stephen / Thomas Walker / Matthew Rose / Sharon Bezaly flute / Lawrence Power viola
BBC Singers, City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
* Prom 44, Monday 18 August, 7:30 PM BST: Elliott Carter Soundings (UK premiere) / Prokofiev Symphony-Concerto / Beethoven Symphony No.6, 'Pastoral'
Nicolas Hodges piano / Alban Gerhardt cello, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov conductor
* Prom 51, Sunday 24 August, 7 PM BST: J S Bach St. John Passion (sung in German)
Mark Padmore / Peter Harvey / Katherine Fuge / Robin Blaze / Nicholas Mulroy / Jeremy Budd / Matthew Brook, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner [[how I wished to be there]]
I will stop here, but there are many, many more...
Have fun, take care,
Wolfgang.
