Those of you with ears (and I know most of you have ears) have probably already heard that they've announced the 2009 proms season again.
ASTONISHINGLY there's been no thread to celebrate this fact.
Here'sthe line-up. It seems to be getting increasingly conservative year-on-year, which isn't too impressive. But then again, they do have to get their money back somewhere along the lines. So, uh... yeah.
The things that interest me:
Mahler 9 (can't go wrong with late Mahler)
Saint-Saen's 3rd
Prom 10 (that's a brilliantly put together programme)
Prom 31- Don't know Resphigi, but I like the Tchiakovsky/ Lutoslawski bit.
Philip Glass played by Kremer (I'm not Glass' biggest fan, but Kremer is
amazing).
There's an Indian prom on 16/8 which might be interesting.
Barenboim doing Berlioz/ Wagner
The one I'll most likely make it to - Gergiev doing Schnittke's Nagasaki and Shoster's 8 (yes!). You really can't trust anyone but the Russians to do wrist-slittingly bleak pieces, you really can't.
Prom 63 Xenakis! Rachmaninov. Shosters 9!
Prom 65 Oh, this is the shitting concert. Also sprach Zarathustra, Atmospheres, songs for dead children... can't be beat.
Actually, that doesn't look too bad to me. There's always something to listen to, innit?