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A PROMS THREAD
Strange and beautiful music for piano, by Scriabin, played at the @BBCProms in 2015, by @JeremyDenk https://bbc.in/3jnZgm9

We& #39;ll">https://bbc.in/3jnZgm9&q... add the best of the 2020 Proms to this thread across the season.

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BBC Proms - 2020 - Proms Chamber Music: Jeremy Denk - BBC Sounds

Jeremy Denk plays piano sonatas by Scriabin, Bartók and Beethoven.

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In the @NewYorker, @jeremydenk has an engrossing #longread - a kind of musical memoir told through a composition notebook he kept as a child https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/04/08/every-good-boy-does-fine

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Every Good Boy Does Fine

“One thing no one teaches you is how much teaching resembles therapy.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/04/08/every-good-boy-does-fine

Our friends the @StaatskapelleDD orchestra visited the @BBCProms in 2016 and gave this wonderful concert of Beethoven, Reger and Richard Strauss. Soloist in the Beethoven violin concerto was Nikolaj Znaider. Listen on @BBCSounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l289

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BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2020, Christian Thielemann conducts the Staatskapelle Dresden

Christian Thielemann conducts the Staatskapelle Dresden in works by Beethoven and Strauss.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l289

If you like your symphonies rustic and brutal you& #39;re in the right place. https://twitter.com/BBCPhilharmonic/status/1285892346261823490

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Two 19th Century jewels and one interwar surprise from Riccardo Chailly and @ConcertgbOrkest in this archive Prom from thirty years ago. It& #39;s a real treat. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000l1f2

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BBC Proms - 2020 - The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra at the Proms - BBC Sounds

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra performs symphonies by Beethoven and Prokofiev.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000l1f2

This is a thrilling, moving concert - full of energy and passion. Originally performed late at night at the 2003 @BBCProms by Anne Sofie von Otter and Les Musiciens du Louvre. It& #39;s on @BBCSounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000l2vh

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BBC Proms - 2020 - Baroque classics from Anne Sofie von Otter and Les Musiciens du Louvre - BBC...

Anne Sofie von Otter sings Bach and Handel with Les Musiciens du Louvre.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000l2vh

Heartstopping Hollywood drama, romance, thrills. A blistering 2016 @BBCProms performance from the inimitable John Wilson and his orchestra. Listen on @BBCSounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l2zm

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BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, Late Escapes, Hollywood Rhapsody Prom

BBC Proms: John Wilson and his Orchestra perform hits from the Golden Age of Hollywood.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l2zm

Travel back 22 years for this deeply involving 1998 @BBCProms performance of Beethoven& #39;s Missa Solemnis from Nikolous Harnoncourt with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Arnold Schoenberg Choir and extraordinary soloists. It& #39;s on @BBCSounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l1yp

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This is really nice - you can now read some articles from the unpublished 2020 @BBCProms Guide online. And they& #39;re lovely. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/6K4flcMLQKqqtvHGFjbx4D/proms-festival-guide-2020-articles-sneak-view

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BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms - Proms Festival Guide 2020 articles – sneak view

Articles

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/6K4flcMLQKqqtvHGFjbx4D/proms-festival-guide-2020-articles-sneak-view

Beautiful and moving. A fascinating collision of new and old. The @BBCSingers, the @Nash_Ensemble and conductor Nicholas Kok. A stunning choral Prom from 2013 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l71z

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BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2020, English choral music new and old

The BBC Singers perform English choral music spanning more than five centuries.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l71z

Speaking of collisions of old and new, 20th Century meets 21st in this really thrilling @BBCProms sequence from 2015. Conductor @Moxianzhang with the @BBCNOW - on @BBCSounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000l1m8

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Monteverdi& #39;s Vespers of 1610, late at night in the Royal Albert Hall. That is all.

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BBC Proms - Late Escapes - BBC Proms: Monteverdi's Vespers - BBC Sounds

French period instrument collective Pygmalion perform Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000l72d

"It might – should – make us value the Proms all over again."
At the weekend, @FionaMaddocks reviewed the first week of the 2020 @BBCProms. A festival from the archives. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jul/26/bbc-proms-2020-review-barenboim-pahud-berlin-sacconi-quartet-roxanna-panufnik-isata-kanneh-mason-ryedale-sheku-philharmonia-wilson

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The week in classical: BBC Proms 2020 and more – review

A diet of highlights from the Proms archive should make us value this great festival more than ever. Elsewhere, enterprising live music-making continues

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jul/26/bbc-proms-2020-review-barenboim-pahud-berlin-sacconi-quartet-roxanna-panufnik-isata-kanneh-mason-ryedale-sheku-philharmonia-wilson

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Two Beethoven piano concertos,
@LeifOveAndsnes at the keyboard, and a glorious octet from Stravinsky& #39;s neo-classical period. Great joy, from 2015, on @BBCSounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000l1mk

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BBC Proms - 2020 - Leif Ove Andsnes plays Beethoven - BBC Sounds

Two Beethoven concertos led from the piano by Leif Ove Andsnes

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000l1mk

Trumpeters, please make like Håkan Hardenberger and wear a gold jacket for your next major performance. His 2015 @BBCProms performance of Brett Dean& #39;s & #39;Dramatis personae& #39; is phenomenal. Listen on @BBCSounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l8xs

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BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2020, Mahler's Sixth Symphony

Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra perform Brett Dean and Mahler.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l8xs

More fabulous Beethoven, for his 250th, on @BBCSounds https://twitter.com/hannahcfrench/status/1288923927629246475

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This delirious, otherworldy late night Prom, @nilsfrahm and @AWVFTS performing together, is on @BBCSounds now. @maryannehobbs presented, and she thought it was pretty good… https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l96j

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The Proms is a quite amazing institution. https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/articles/1ec50bd1-515f-421c-b69a-7611335c4e3b

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A really thrilling night out at the @BBCProms, in your house…

https://twitter.com/BBCSO/status/1289538873123430401

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It& #39;s no exaggeration to say that Sir Roger Norrington and his London Classical Players changed what we expect of a Beethoven or Schubert concert forever. This exciting Prom is from 1989
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l79n

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BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2020, Beethoven and Schubert from Roger Norrington

Sir Roger Norrington conducts Beethoven and Schubert - four decades of unmissable Proms.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l79n

Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim have known each other since they played under the piano together as small children in Buenos Aires. They still play together pretty well https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08k9k11

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BBC Proms - 2020 - Daniel Barenboim and his West–Eastern Divan Orchestra - BBC Sounds

Martha Argerich plays Liszt’s First Piano Concerto.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08k9k11

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On @BBCSounds - in the app and on the web - there& #39;s a subscribe button. Press it on any @BBCProms episode and every concert will show up on your device automatically, for the rest of the season, as if commanded to do so by Sir Henry Wood himself. #PromsThread22/" title="https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📲" title="Mobiltelefon mit nach rechts zeigendem Pfeil auf der linken Seite" aria-label="Emoji: Mobiltelefon mit nach rechts zeigendem Pfeil auf der linken Seite"> On @BBCSounds - in the app and on the web - there& #39;s a subscribe button. Press it on any @BBCProms episode and every concert will show up on your device automatically, for the rest of the season, as if commanded to do so by Sir Henry Wood himself. #PromsThread22/" class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>

Pierre Boulez was the @BBCSO& #39;s principal conductor between 1971 and 1975

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One of our very favourite @BBCProms conductors - she was on the podium for the #LNOP in 2013 and 2015 - @marinalsop conducts this wonderful 2007 concert with the @BSOrchestra https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08k9m04

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BBC Proms - 2020 - Beethoven, Barber and Copland from the 2007 BBC Proms - BBC Sounds

James Ehnes plays Barber’s Violin Concerto.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08k9m04

Here& #39;s an enormous, wonderful Prom. The kind of spectacular, life-altering concert we& #39;re all dreaming of now, as the cultural lockdown grinds on. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08k9gxy

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BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2020, Elgar, Bliss and Walton from the 2006 BBC Proms

Richard Hickox conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Belshazzar's Feast.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08k9gxy

One of Messiaen& #39;s most profound statements of faith, in 14 parts, for voices and huge orchestra, La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ is a musical phenomenon and an experience not to be missed. The 2008 Prom is on @BBCSounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000lhdy

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#PromsThread26/" title="One of Messiaen& #39;s most profound statements of faith, in 14 parts, for voices and huge orchestra, La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ is a musical phenomenon and an experience not to be missed. The 2008 Prom is on @BBCSounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/programme... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/PromsThread"> #PromsThread26/" class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>

This lockdown season of the @BBCProms is, of course, a kind of & #39;best of& #39; - so many fabulous concerts from the archives that it& #39;s essentially impossible to pick highlights. They& #39;re all highlights. But may we respectfully suggest one? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08kd5yd

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BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2020, CBSO, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla returns to the Proms with Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08kd5yd

What are your highlights from the 2020 @BBCProms? Reply and we& #39;ll add them to the #PromsThread

All the Proms broadcasts are listed here, on the @BBCProms web site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms

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A phenomenal evening from 2018
https://twitter.com/BBCSounds/status/1295797612562583552

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Stop, download this to your mobile now. 57 minutes of joy https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000m0n9

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BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2020, Susan Graham sings French song

Songs by Bizet, Chabrier, Duparc, Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc, Honegger and more.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000m0n9

This extraordinary 1987 Leonard Bernstein Mahler 5 with the @Vienna_Phil would surely make it into any @BBCProms top 10 http://bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08 …

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This extraordinary 1987 Leonard Bernstein Mahler 5 with the @Vienna_Phil would surely make it into any @BBCProms top 10 https://bbc.co.uk/programme... href=

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The amazing photographs of Leonard Bernstein are from the BBC archives, taken for a 1986 TV programme.

Maestro Simon Rattle makes extraordinary use of the required social distancing in the @RoyalAlbertHall to create a unique mood in this beautiful and moving Prom. Oh and Mitsuko Uchida is at the piano https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000m6fb

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BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2020 Live, Rattle conducts the LSO

An eclectic programme with works by Elgar, Adès, Gabrieli, Kurtág and Vaughan Williams

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000m6fb

Remarkable fusion of song and strings in this beautiful concert from @lauramarlinghq and the @12ensemble https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000mf89

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A thrilling Mosaic of music from and inspired by the United States of American, from Barber to Martinů to Adams to Copland, with the @BBCNOW
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000mc2y

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BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2020 Live, American Dreams

Ryan Bancroft conducts BBC NOW in a Prom which celebrates popular music from the USA

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000mc2y

Fascinating detailed programme notes for this and all the live 2020 @BBCProms concerts are online https://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/extra/k2AjWsPPui/Proms-at-Hoddinott-Hall-Cardiff

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Fascinating detailed programme notes for this and all the live 2020 @BBCProms concerts are online https://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/ext... href=

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Two magical 20th Century masterpieces and a Mozart gem. @grosvenorpiano with the @Philharmonia Orchestra and @paavo_jarvi https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000md74

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Let& #39;s conclude this thread of 2020 Proms highlights with the extraordinary final concert of the season - all the big tunes, some fabulous otherworldly sounds, amazing playing and singing. A real joy, and it& #39;s on @BBCSounds of course https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000mj89

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