I was in a foul mood when I left the Royal Albert Hall after Prom 34. I passed people queuing for the Philip Glass late night Prom outside and wished I could stay. I needed something to satisfy my sou… more →
thoroughly good blogCormac Heron wrote 3 months ago: My mate Ed Bennett’s ‘Bad Disco’ is being played on Radio3 tonight at 10:45. Check … more →
Thoroughly Good wrote 3 months ago: I was in a foul mood when I left the Royal Albert Hall after Prom 34. I passed people queuing for th … more →
Thoroughly Good wrote 3 months ago: As Proms experiences go this season, Prom 30 was a little odd. I’d wanted to go to the Royal A … more →
Thoroughly Good wrote 3 months ago: There were one or two raised eyebrows when I registered my unhappiness at discovering four unfamilia … more →
Thoroughly Good wrote 3 months ago: Before After One of the benefits of not staying to the end of a reasonably long Prom concert is the … more →
Thoroughly Good wrote 3 months ago: Helen Roberts, sub-principal viola from BBC National Orchestra of Wales talks BBC Training Orchestra … more →
Thoroughly Good wrote 3 months ago: Listen Listen to the performance from Prom 23 via BBC iPlayer. … more →
Thoroughly Good wrote 3 months ago: Listen Watch our own special hero John Wilson in a repeat performance of the marathon concert of MGM … more →
Thoroughly Good wrote 3 months ago: Mendelssohn is quite a confusing composer. Tonight’s Symphony No. 5 – the Reformation – … more →
Thoroughly Good wrote 4 months ago: Given the length of Mendelssohn’s second symphony ‘Hymn of Praise’ – a testing 62 minutes acco … more →
Thoroughly Good wrote 4 months ago: Listen to an honest but still sincere reaction to Stephen Hough’s rendition of Tchaikovsky … more →
Thoroughly Good wrote 4 months ago: I wasn’t in the best of moods when I sat down to listen to Prom 15 at the Royal Albert Hall this eve … more →
Thoroughly Good wrote 4 months ago: Don’t think for a moment this is the sum total of the time I’ll spend listening to this … more →
Thoroughly Good wrote 4 months ago: For many years now, I’ve steered clear of Royal Albert Hall on Family Prom day. In it’s … more →
Thoroughly Good wrote 4 months ago: There’s an assumption, a conclusion jumped to, amongst self-proclaimed “serious” classical music lov … more →
Thoroughly Good wrote 4 months ago: There’s something irresistable about a programme of organ music. It takes me back to my childhood an … more →
Thoroughly Good wrote 4 months ago: Listen (to me during the first interval at Prom 10 – it was a little windy) This evening’s Pro … more →
Thoroughly Good wrote 4 months ago: Listen to an Audio Boo thing The BBC Philharmonic joined forces with Vassily Sinaisky for a programm … more →
Thoroughly Good wrote 4 months ago: “It seems a bit of a bitty programme,” I said to the significant other as I peered over … more →