Attend the Last Night of the Proms

This reminded me exactly why I want to go.

I think I’m most likely to go to one of the proms in the park one year first.

And will be going to another prom concert this year.

Prom 31 – organ concert

Mozart
Fantasy in F minor for mechanical organ, K608 (11 mins)
Shostakovich
‘The Gadfly’ – Credo; The Cathedral Service (7 mins)
Glire
Fugue on a Russian Christmas Song (2 mins)
Glazunov
Fantasy, Op.110 (17 mins)
Böhm
Chorale Prelude on ‘Vater unser im Himmelreich’ (4 mins)
J S Bach
Chorale Prelude on ‘Dies sind die heil’gen zehn Gebot’, BWV678 (5 mins)
Liszt
Fantasia and Fugue on ‘Ad nos, ad salutarem undam’ (28 mins)

David Goode organ

Leading British organist David Goode puts the Royal Albert Hall’s recently restored ‘Father’ Willis through its paces, taking in both of this year’s major composer anniversaries, plus those of Glière (died 1956) and Glazunov (died 1936). Liszt’s magnificent Fantasia and Fugue on a theme from Meyerbeer’s opera Le prophète, written for Bach’s centenary year, is prefaced by chorale preludes by Bach himself and Georg Böhm, whose music was an early influence on Bach’s style.

It will be a few years until I have enough time to go to enough concerts in one year to get into the last night.

1: I’m in the US, and 2: admission to Last Night is gotten by having a season-pass which means I’d have to be in the UK for at least a month to make it practical. (details) But still I think it would be an absolute blast and wouldn’t pass up a good chance to go to any of the shows, in particular the Royal Albert Hall ones.