On the first week of the proms
Jul. 24th, 2009 04:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylWith one exception, I've enjoyed all the concerts I've caught this week. My problem? Tuesday's performance of The Fairy Queen, which didn't even come close to working.
Not that I think the problem was with the performance so much as it was with the material. Erica Jeal in the Graun notes that there were huge gaps between the musical numbers and that the staging wasn't really enough to make up for this. How much worse, then, for those of us trying to listen on the radio...
Still, the rest of the week, especially the wonderfully choral singing from Cambridge, more than made up for it.
Not that I think the problem was with the performance so much as it was with the material. Erica Jeal in the Graun notes that there were huge gaps between the musical numbers and that the staging wasn't really enough to make up for this. How much worse, then, for those of us trying to listen on the radio...
Still, the rest of the week, especially the wonderfully choral singing from Cambridge, more than made up for it.
