Sun 16 Aug
Actor Mark Gatiss joins presenter Matthew Sweet for the first ever Sherlock Holmes Prom, exploring the famous detective’s musical passions as well as music from Sherlock-related TV and film scores.
- Mark Gatiss actor
- Christine Rice mezzo-soprano
- Jack Liebeck violin
- Matthew Sweet presenter
- Stile Antico
- BBC Concert Orchestra
- Barry Wordsworth conductor
About this event
The Proms salutes a crime-fighting violin virtuoso who wrote a pioneering study of Dutch sacred music, tussled with a contralto from the Warsaw Opera and used Offenbach to outwit a pair of jewel thieves. This Proms matinee celebrates music that conjures up the world of Sherlock Holmes: works by Paganini, Lassus and Wagner which Conan Doyle tells us Holmes loved, and the film and TV scores written for him – from Miklós Rózsa’s The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes to David Arnold and Michael Price’s music from the BBC’s Sherlock series starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Special guests include Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss, as well as mezzo-soprano Christine Rice, who explores the repertoire of Holmes’s nemesis, the opera singer Irene Adler.
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I'll be providing an MP3 of the program sometime after the Prom performance.
If someone in the UK could provide the video, that would be terrific
Bob
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I have added all 3 mp3s to Onedrive and they have been edited properly, e.g. the Interval reading is the 2nd file only and not spread out over the 1st and 2nd files.
Onedrive Sherlock Holmes Proms 2015 folder
Jake:
This set is 50MB smaller than the original set. What's been edited out?
In the original 3 files I uploaded the 3rd file (03) could be about 12-13 minutes shorter. At the end of that 3rd file there's a piece, after part 2 of the prom finishes, where the Radio 3 announcer has about 12-13 minutes before the next program and fills it in by playing something which, from memory, was called Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Who. It's not part of the prom. Just something from a BBC CD release. By announcer I mean the male voice sat in some BBC studio who talks between the programs. Not the female voice (Katie Derham) who is speaking from the prom itself. I haven't cut any Katie Derham out.
Next the 2nd of the original files (02) has most of the Interval reading and 3-4 mintues of part 2 of the prom at the end. In the 3rd of the original files (03) you hear part 2 of the prom from the start again. So there's another 3-4 minutes edited out. At 320k I think these 15-17 minutes gets us close to the 50MB you mention.
Many thanks, Jake. As Dr Watson said to Sherlock Holmes, you are a benefactor of the (human) race!
Roger
Thank you Roger.
I'd also like to thank Carrie Chandler, the lady that replaced some bloke called Roger Johnson on The District Messenger.
In the latest issue she mentions the Front Row episode that aired just before the prom.
I'd missed that. A little digging also revealed the World Service Weekend Break episode.
Details of both below. I have uploaded mp3s of both to the Onedrive Proms 2015 folder that I linked to in the post before my last post.
Front Row
BBC Radio 4
Fri 14 Aug 2015
10 minutes
To mark the first ever Sherlock Holmes Prom, composer David Arnold and broadcaster Matthew Sweet explore the musical world of Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective.
Weekend Break
BBC World Service
Sun 16 Aug 2015
8 mins
The music of Sherlock Holmes, the violin and Moriarty. Julian Worricker presenting with guests Bettany Hughes and Paul Melly.
From one completist to another - THANK YOU
This is the icing on the cake. I almost feel like I was there. Thanks, Jake.
Excellent! Thanks again, Jake - and, yes, Carrie is invaluable.
Roger
Excellent editing - thanks for the explanation and especially for the work!
Here's the mp3 (320k) links:
01 Proms 2015 Prom 41 Sherlock Holmes A Musical Mind part 1
02 Proms 2015 Prom 41 Sherlock Holmes A Musical Mind Interval Sir A...
03 Proms 2015 Prom 41 Sherlock Holmes A Musical Mind part 2
File sizes. I typed these as part of the links above but they are not visible. The m4a and mp3 versions are about the same size.
01 132MB
02 52MB
03 144MB
Thought I'd also mention - plenty of Proms on BBC TV but from what I can tell I don't think this is included. :(
Also -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's autobiography Memories and Adventures, used for the Interval reading, can be read at Project Gutenberg Australia
Gutenberg Memories and Adventures
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