I’m not sure why we went so very little in 1996 – I’m guessing we might have been preoccupied with other things when the Proms programme came out.
I don’t think this concert would have been our first choice, but Pauline liked Debussy and was convinced that Janie simply needed to work at it to find a place in her heart for Prokofiev. We tried a few times over the years and it didn’t ever work.
Valery Gergiev, conducting the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, would certainly have been a draw.
Here is a link to the BBC stub for this Prom.
We heard:
- Sergey Prokofiev – Symphony No 6 in E flat minor
- Modest Mussorgsky – The Nursery (arr. Edison Denisov)
- Claude Debussy – La Mer
Here’s what Nicholas Williams thought about it in the Indy:
Gergiev Proms Williams Indy 1 of 2 11 Sep 1996, Wed The Independent (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com
Gergiev Prom Williams Indy 2 of 2 11 Sep 1996, Wed The Independent (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com