Korngold fans must tune in to tonight's Prom, at which Renee Fleming will be singing two marvellous and rarely heard arias from the operas Das Wunder der Heliane and Die Kathrin. They are utterly gorgeous and I reckon there couldn't be a better voice for them. For those with digital TV, the concert will be relayed on BBC4. Failing that, you can hear it live on Radio 3 and on the Listen Again facility for the week ahead.
La Fleming, incidentally, is to be interviewed during the interval and apparently we're being encouraged to ask her questions by email. But despite trawling all the relevant BBC sites, I can't find the appropriate email address (the words 'bbc', 'impenetrable' and 'typical' come to mind, in no particular order) (or maybe I've missed it...if anyone finds the link, please send it...).
Meanwhile, if you want to hear Korngold's chamber music in a live, intense and intimate Korngoldfest, come to Norfolk in September. Norfolk, East Anglia, UK, that is. More info about the West Norfolk Chamber Music Festival can be found at their music society's site, here.
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More good news from the other side of the pond. If you google 'Bard Music Festival' you'll discover that in August and October the estimable Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, is holding a festival entitled Elgar and His World. It's an unusual and carefully thought out enterprise, to be accompanied by a book of essays with the same title to be published by Princeton University Press. Maybe things are looking up for Elgar. Philip
Sent a quick e-mail to the beeb asking about questions to La Fleming.
Otherwise, thank you soooo much for this notice! *Worships* Gosh, I wonder how much Promsy goodness I've been missing by only sporadically checking.
Answer to the great question of where to send questions to La Fleming: on the comments thingy at the bottom of this page.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/feedback/
Re the impenetrable BBC. I recently saw mention in a blog of a tape of a radio broadcast by Solomon held by Radio New Zealand. I went to the RNZ site, found there an invitation to send enquires re their holdings, and sent off an email. Two hours later, I kid you not, I received a reply from the archivist saying she was sorry to report that they held no such tape, listing what in the way of Solomon recordings they do hold, and signing off with an invitation to write again if I thought she could be of further help and with "Warmest regards". It really quite shocked me, even moved me a little, that I should get such a response in this age of impenetrable and unresponsive corporate entities of all sorts. I now have a very soft spot indeed for Radio New Zealand. Philip
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