Anyone fancy interjecting their thoughts on The Last Night of the Proms, currently being broadcast live?
I thought the singer Angel Blue came across very well in her first pieces.
Gosh, I’m going to have to buy some of Saint-Saëns’ piano concerti…
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Another great Last Night.
Angel Blue & Stephen Hough were outstanding.
TV sound via Naim … especially when the organ kicked in, Wow! it overpowered the orchestra and the room rumbled.
But I do wish they would run the whole of the Wood Fantasia on British Sea Songs. I really don’t agree cutting some just to insert some regional traditional tunes, it’s not a complete Last Night without all of them.
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Agreed on both counts.
The Britten arrangement of the National Anthem amazes me afresh every year with how good it is. As does the Elgar arrangement of Jerusalem.
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When I lived in London, I sometimes went to the penultimate night of the Proms to see Beethoven’s choral symphony, and always looked forward to and enjoyed that.
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