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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'll add the best of the 2020 Proms to this thread across the season.
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Strange and beautiful music for piano, by Scriabin, played at the @BBCProms in 2015, by @JeremyDenk https://bbc.in/3jnZgm9
We'll add the best of the 2020 Proms to this thread across the season.
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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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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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If you like your symphonies rustic and brutal you'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's a real treat. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000l1f2
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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's on @BBCSounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000l2vh
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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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Travel back 22 years for this deeply involving 1998 @BBCProms performance of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis from Nikolous Harnoncourt with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Arnold Schoenberg Choir and extraordinary soloists. It'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're lovely. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/6K4flcMLQKqqtvHGFjbx4D/proms-festival-guide-2020-articles-sneak-view
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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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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's Vespers of 1610, late at night in the Royal Albert Hall. That is all.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000l72d
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"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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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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Stravinsky Beethoven BeethovenTwo Beethoven piano concertos,
@LeifOveAndsnes at the keyboard, and a glorious octet from Stravinsky's neo-classical period. Great joy, from 2015, on @BBCSounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000l1mk
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Trumpeters, please make like Håkan Hardenberger and wear a gold jacket for your next major performance. His 2015 @BBCProms performance of Brett Dean's 'Dramatis personae' is phenomenal. Listen on @BBCSounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l8xs
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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'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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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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On @BBCSounds - in the app and on the web - there'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.#PromsThread
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Pierre Boulez was the @BBCSO'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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Here's an enormous, wonderful Prom. The kind of spectacular, life-altering concert we're all dreaming of now, as the cultural lockdown grinds on. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08k9gxy
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One of Messiaen'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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This lockdown season of the @BBCProms is, of course, a kind of 'best of' - so many fabulous concerts from the archives that it's essentially impossible to pick highlights. They're all highlights. But may we respectfully suggest one? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08kd5yd
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What are your highlights from the 2020 @BBCProms? Reply and we'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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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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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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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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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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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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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'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's on @BBCSounds of course https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000mj89
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