You can listen to the whole thing on iPlayer here:
Mark Gatiss did a lovely job of voicing Conan Doyle and some of his characters. Excerpts were carefully chosen by the organisers, who attempted to provide context and explanations for the pieces chosen. For a Prom, there was quite a bit of talking. A bit more of Gatiss' own ideas might have been interesting, but I suppose they wanted to keep to the music rather than treating it like a convention.
Music from Hans Zimmer's soundtracks was used, although I think not to their full effect, as they had been re-arranged. I love Hans Zimmer's soundtrack to both of Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes films. However, the pieces from the Jeremy Brett series were great. Quite a bit was also made of the fact that Holmes was a violinist, and the Paganini piece was wonderful! The violinist was in an appropriately Victorian costume, as well.
Of course, most of the audience were there to hear pieces from Sherlock, which were a fitting close. David Arnold and Michael Price have done a great job of bringing the new series to life with their themes and soundtrack. When I heard it live, I realised that it has a fairground ride quality, which is quite interesting.
Overall I'd give this 5* although I wish I'd gone for the arena tickets as it wasn't as busy as I'd thought, as then it would have been easier to hear the talking bits. Either that, or maybe the Proms team could prepare subtitles...
I haven't blogged for ages, and am hugely apologetic for this. I've fallen behind with reading and with watching television. However, I'm hoping to do a blog on the new Robert Galbraith book in November and may well get round to a blog before that. I'm currently reading Boris Akunin so might do a little blog on that.
Courtesy of the Telegraph.
Music from Hans Zimmer's soundtracks was used, although I think not to their full effect, as they had been re-arranged. I love Hans Zimmer's soundtrack to both of Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes films. However, the pieces from the Jeremy Brett series were great. Quite a bit was also made of the fact that Holmes was a violinist, and the Paganini piece was wonderful! The violinist was in an appropriately Victorian costume, as well.
They also made quite a lot of the Irene Adler/opera connection, something passed over in the Sherlock series. The pieces chosen were very beautiful.
Of course, most of the audience were there to hear pieces from Sherlock, which were a fitting close. David Arnold and Michael Price have done a great job of bringing the new series to life with their themes and soundtrack. When I heard it live, I realised that it has a fairground ride quality, which is quite interesting.
During the performance there were some wonderful archive pictures including stills and film posters. This was interesting because it showed you Sherlock's many incarnations. I'd somehow missed this one:
Overall I'd give this 5* although I wish I'd gone for the arena tickets as it wasn't as busy as I'd thought, as then it would have been easier to hear the talking bits. Either that, or maybe the Proms team could prepare subtitles...
I haven't blogged for ages, and am hugely apologetic for this. I've fallen behind with reading and with watching television. However, I'm hoping to do a blog on the new Robert Galbraith book in November and may well get round to a blog before that. I'm currently reading Boris Akunin so might do a little blog on that.
