BBC Proms 2017 - Prom 8 - 20th July 2017
"Celebrating John Williams"



BBC Concert Orchestra
Jamal Aliyev, cello
Annelien Van Wauwe, clarinet
Haringey Vox Choir
Choir of Music Centre London
conducted by
Keith Lockhart

This concert was given at the Royal Albert Hall in London on the 20th of July 2017 to celebrate John Williams in this, his eighty-fifth birthday year. The selection is fairly standard as John Williams concerts go, though there are some nice surprises - in addition to the expected crowd-pleasers Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Superman, we get good suites from more recent scores such as War Horse, The BFG, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and some contrast to the bombast with more subdued scores Munich, and Memoirs Of A Geisha.

A note about the FLAC audio: For the 2017 season of the Proms, the BBC is offering for the first time every concert as a lossless stream. Where FLAC audio is present, this is genuine lossless sound, not a transcode!

Total Concert Time
Audio Version: 2:24:36 (of which 1:34:52 is music, 49:44 is spoken introductions and an interval lecture)
Video Version: 1:58:52 (interval lecture not featured and some trimming of the introductions)

Music played in the concert listed in spoilers...

The Raiders March
Overture to "Goodbye Mr. Chips"
Main Theme from "Jaws"
March from "Superman"
Suite For Cello and Orchestra from Memoirs Of A Geisha - No. 1 - Sayuri's Theme
The Tale Of Viktor Navorski from "The Terminal"
Dartmoor, 1912 from "War Horse"
Hedwig's Theme from "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"
A Child's Tale - Suite from "The BFG"
Flying Theme from "E.T. The Extra Terrestrial"
Suite from "J.F.K", 1st Movement - Theme from J.F.K
Prayer for Peace from "Munich"
Dry Your Tears, Afrika from "Amistad"
Devil's Dance from "The Witches of Eastwick"
Escapades (No. 3) for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra from "Catch Me If You Can"
March Of The Resistance from "Star Wars - The Force Awakens"
Rey's Theme from "Star Wars - The Force Awakens"
Main Title from "Star Wars - A New Hope"
Cantina Band from "Star Wars - A New Hope"
Harry's Wondrous World from "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"


All in all, I really like it - except for factual inaccuracies in the commentary (Williams did NOT score NBC Nightly News in the 1960s), Katie Derham's cringe-worthy and repetitive "The force is strong with..." jokes, Keith Lockhart's sloppy outfit, and the casual dress of the musicians themselves!

The password for all links is my username.

You can listen in a number of ways:

Links updated and hidden behind uber-captcha, de-referrer, password, and redirection!

AUDIO ONLY

FLAC (713mb) - https://anon.click/mulak59
MP3 -V0 (except speaking sections which are encoded at -V6) (215mb) - https://anon.click/getay71

VIDEO

Ultra HQ - 50fps 720p with FLAC audio (4.63gb) - https://anon.click/tagoy76
HQ - 25fps 720p with FLAC audio (2.47gb) - https://anon.click/fideb36
Standard Definition with MP3 -V0 audio (910mb) - https://anon.click/poyar81

Enjoy! :)
TT

Thank you for all the work put into making these available.

This is awesome!!! Thanks for your hard work!

awesome tango treats , thanks!! it was a great concert , i would have liked to have seen some rarer pieces , however any williams concert is a joy!!

Yes, I wholeheartedly agree... It grows a little tiresome hearing the same things over and over again and the obsession with "Main Theme" is disheartening - but I suppose this is what has to happen at this sort of event, and I'm happy it happens at all. There were some nice surprises and I think it held together really well. :)

I would love to here something like heartbeeps performed or Images , there does seem to be an obsession with main themes , but like you said at these types of event they have a benchmark they have to stick too . Im actually going to see Back to the future in concert in leeds on sunday , should be interesting and my first experience of thsi type of thing ... its great that film music seems to be getting popular .

Fantastic. Thanks!

Yes ... thank you for all the work put into making these available. It is people like you that make this the best place to be.cReputation given gratefully.

Thank you.

Thanks a lot for the share, especially the video!

Rep sent!

Wonderful share, thank you very much. Wish I could have been there!

thank you very much tangotreats

EXTRA!!!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

Thank you very much!

FLAC audio and Ultra HQ video - this is just amazing. The Royal Albert Hall is my favourite concert venue in the world, wish I'd been there. Thanks for sharing.

Many thanks.

Well done, great tangotreats!!!
Unfortunately I haven't possibility to see in Ultra HQ... I haven't money for a new 4K SmartTV and a 4K Player.....

Wow *-* Amazing Fantastic share !!!, i love all this concerts on John Williams, thank you very much, tangotreats ;)

Hello tangotreats or someone else,
would you be so kind and send me the link for the flac audio only version of this great concert.

Much appreciated

Sorry, folks - someone ([email protected]) has seen fit to have all these links - for a concert which is freely available for download by the BBC and has nothing whatsoever to do with Universal Music - taken down.

As this represents 10gb of uploads, it will be some time before I can get them reinstated. In the mean time, I'd really be grateful if anybody who did manage to capture my upload before it disappeared and who has a fast upload speed, may be willing to help out.

Thank you.

And, by the way - whoever voted this thread one star... what's the matter with you?

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Well done, great tangotreats!!!
Unfortunately I haven't possibility to see in Ultra HQ... I haven't money for a new 4K SmartTV and a 4K Player.....

The Ultra HQ version is 720p.

Thank you!!!

unfortunately didi not manage to download. links are gone

And, by the way - whoever voted this thread one star... what's the matter with you?

Very sorry about that my friend but i have said this before, this forum is not what it used to be, now i'm afraid 90% of the people here don't know shit about film music they olny know and like the dreadful Zimmers.

Thanks a million for this my friend :) this is film music at its best !!!!!!

Ah, I don't care much, it's just the cherry on top, you know? You spend two days doing something, then some overzealous copyright troll has it all deleted, and then somebody else marks it as a piece of shit.

This place has its moments... but you're right, they're getting fewer and further between...

Thanks for your support, my friend. :)

Thanks

You should have seen my inner rage when all my "Legacy" got deleted.

But are we really sure it's a troll? I shared my Sawada arrangements outside the thread (with passwort and captcha) for like five seconds and gone it was!
And all my shares were rated one star instantly. That has to be a bot!


I refuse to believe genuine tributes and heartfelt shares get to be picked out by some real human being.

If it was a bot, it's a clever one, to follow an anonymised link, work out the password, follow through to Mega, and report them... :O

If hiding links behing captchas and passwords no longer work, it makes me think it might be time to re-evaluate sharing at all. I am not going to do the "PM for link" game - I don't have time for that and I'm fundamentally opposed to it.

Maybe it's time to move on.

My rather unorthodox solution for Legacy that works for me was to just share a textfile with the links (and a different password for the textfile). If ANY link from that method gets reported, it's without doubt a human being.

So far my assumption of it being a bot seem correct as nothing got removed since then, the worst that could happen in that case is that I have to reupload a 1kb file ;)

It's possible, I guess... I just hate all this sending people on a treasure hunt. Whatever next, are we going to end up saying "Password is the third character from Ponyo's post on January 13th 2016 in the Doctor Who thread, the second character from the surname of the 21st President of the USA, the last number of the year in which the man who published the Theory of Relativity was born, and the fifth character of the first name name of the BBC Concert Orchestra's Principal Conductor from 1966 to 1960" to try to hide it?

I've put the links back up under an avalanche of passwords and captchas and re-directions. If this doesn't work, I'll try it your way.

If that doesn't work, I'll retire from sharing.

Life's too short for this crap...

Wow what an incredibly impressive release, can't thank you enough.

I was wondering why the hell the audio was converted to FLAC from a BBC stream, thus increasing file size. But they're actually offering FLAC streams?! Hats off to BBC.

Can some please reupload it? That would be great :)

Thank you so much for all your efforts with this amazing share. Growing up in the '70s John Williams was very much my introduction to film music with the triple whammy of Jaws, Star Wars and Close Encounters. I can't wait to view the concert.

If they are programs that can play chess games, on which tthey have in memory millions of combinations, this bot must be the last AI bot with a lots of exobytes of informations and passwords and of course that can read posts and be able to retrieve the pass from there :D

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btw, thanks for the reup tango!

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Yes, I wholeheartedly agree... It grows a little tiresome hearing the same things over and over again and the obsession with "Main Theme" is disheartening - but I suppose this is what has to happen at this sort of event, and I'm happy it happens at all. There were some nice surprises and I think it held together really well. :)

Normally when people goes to the concerts, always wanted to hear something new.. like a song or new cues. Always playing the main theme on which we all already have heard, now it's time that they become more creatives and play rejected cues or cues that never made it on to the final print, etc

Thanks a lot...!!!

Could someone kindly confirm that they're able to access the links, now, please? I am getting PMs saying the decryption key is not included but it is.

Thanks!

tried again, not working. It says that there is a wrong decryption key.

As you suggested, I had uploaded a file (the lower quality video). Shortly after its completion you had reuploaded everything and there was no point in sharing the link, but it may interest some users for now.

JW-PROM2017-SD.mkv 909.14 MB https://1fichier.com/?pp32begcu3

Thanks for all your work on this.

Outstanding! Many many thanks!

Hello!

I tried downloading, but unfortunately none of the links is working.... :( Is there anything we can do to help?

Sorry, it's gone again, taken down by the same person/entity/whatever.

I will not be re-uploading it.

Can someone please reupload this. Would love to see and hear it!!!! Thank you!

This is so sad. I started the download on the UltraHQ video last night but had to cut it short as I had to shut the system down.
I came back this morning and it's gone. It's frustrating and I can only surmise that somebody here is reporting MEGA links as and when they appear. Half of my public uploads disappeared overnight, leaving only the stuff that was PM only. In hindsight I'm happy I chose the latter, even if it means I may not be able to fulfill requests for a few days.
Needless to say, if anybody has the video in the 50fps version I would greatly appreciate it.

I was going after the 50fps file too yesterday but Mega stopped halfway through and said "quota exceeded" or something, never had that before.

Maybe someone could just make a torrent of it? Would that allow it to get out more easily?

That's a point - I'll see what I can do.

I wouldnt mind the whole concert is on you tube !!, and this can be ripped i guess ,

having any flac?

thank trition reup video!

Okay, if anybody wants a link to the FLAC (Audio only) please shoot me a PM. Note that I may not be able to respond immediately, but in the interest of keeping the link active this is the best course of action.

Still hoping somebody can re-up the 50fps video content :)

Thank you, tangotreats. You're a national treasure.
Also thanks to trition for re-uploading the SD + MP3 -V0 encode (Post #38).
Furthermore, thanks to mr_merrick for offering PMs with the FLAC audio.

__________RE-UP__________
__________RE-UP__________
__________RE-UP__________

Ultra HQ - 50fps 720p with FLAC audio (4.63gb)：

<TT>ZippyShare (http://links.snahp.it/272Will%20Helm)</TT> | Password: OP's name

Audio Only, FLAC - Splitted & Tagged (713mb)：

<TT>MediaFire (http://links.snahp.it/568 Willgem)</TT> | Password: OP's name

Please, what is the OP's name?

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Ok i have understand, many thanks.

You folks are fantastic. Thank you. I wonder if these links will live longer as they're not "in proximity" to the title of the thread... The other links that died were in the first post emblazoned with information about what the links were. Maybe these will last as they're a little more subtle "here's links for that thing..." - if anybody's uploading again (for which I'm very grateful) I think it would be a good idea to follow this example and keep descriptions vague. :)

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I wouldnt mind the whole concert is on you tube !!, and this can be ripped i guess ,

I wouldn't mind either, except that I suspect it will be deleted even faster off there, and something of the purpose of this upload was to showcase the new shit-hot sound quality on the lossless stream... and the thought of throwing it up on Youtube with 96kbps audio and people listening to it and downloading it from there upsets me on so many levels... ;)

Thank you for re-Uploading! Was able to grab both files.

And a big thank you to tangotreats for the initial upload!

Interested to know the method of how the video and audio captured. PVR? iPlayer stream?

Thanks a lot!!!!!

Thanks to tangotreats for the excellent rip and Herr Salat for the re-upload!

The video was downloaded from the highest quality option on iPlayer (720p, 50fps) which I combined with the lossless audio, captured directly from the BBC's OGG-FLAC stream as it was broadcast live.

Thanks to tangotreats for the excellent rip and Herr Salat for the re-upload ! I'll watch it this saturday :-)

Hey, TT. I hate bearing bad news, but it seems that the links are down again - just before I was trying to download them. Could you please check? Maybe it's just me...

Thank you so much !!!!!

Thanks tangotreats and Herr Salat!

Hey, TT. I hate bearing bad news, but it seems that the links are down again - just before I was trying to download them. Could you please check? Maybe it's just me...

The right links are at this post, not the initial one. Have you tried these? Thread 218103

the video already dead!

Ignore, didn't see those reup links!

great work, but the video (highest quality one with flac audio) doesn't have chapters so I made the xml chapter file (with titled chapters). I can upload it (the xml only) so it can be muxed in the mkv using Mkvmerge gui. I can also convert the audio to AC3 and/or DTS Stereo for AVCHD and/or BD9 compatibility.

great work, but the video (highest quality one with flac audio) doesn't have chapters so I made the xml chapter file (with titled chapters). I can upload it (the xml only) so it can be muxed in the mkv using Mkvmerge gui. I can also convert the audio to AC3 and/or DTS Stereo for AVCHD and/or BD9 compatibility.

XML would be a great idea

Thank you.

Thank you so much tangotreats for to share this absolutely amazing concert and for all your excellent work done!! Thank you very much Herr Salat for the re-upload.

Many thanks !!

thank many reup and original share! many appreciating!

You folks are fantastic. Thank you. I wonder if these links will live longer as they're not "in proximity" to the title of the thread... The other links that died were in the first post emblazoned with information about what the links were. Maybe these will last as they're a little more subtle "here's links for that thing..." - if anybody's uploading again (for which I'm very grateful) I think it would be a good idea to follow this example and keep descriptions vague. :)

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I wouldn't mind either, except that I suspect it will be deleted even faster off there, and something of the purpose of this upload was to showcase the new shit-hot sound quality on the lossless stream... and the thought of throwing it up on Youtube with 96kbps audio and people listening to it and downloading it from there upsets me on so many levels... ;)

You are correct. It was already on youtube but was quickly taken down. Thank you so much for sharing this great quality stuff!

CAn you reup please?

Will you reup? Links are down... :-(

Thank you!!

Thank you all for your kindness, ladies and gentlemen, but I have now retired from sharing and have no plans to reupload this or anything else - others, however, have done so (with my blessing) and I encourage you to look through the thread because they are still up as of August 14th.

:)

sad not seeing share more, thank many for many share over years!

Thank you all for your kindness, ladies and gentlemen, but I have now retired from sharing and have no plans to reupload this or anything else - others, however, have done so (with my blessing) and I encourage you to look through the thread because they are still up as of August 14th.

:)


sad not seeing share more, thank many for many share over years!

Ditto, Zeratul13. Thanks to you, tangotreats, for everything you've shared here for so long, in higher amount and quality than most of us will ever do. There was a comment of moderator Sanico a few years ago saying that you were one of the few who would deserve to be allowed some exception in the general rules of the forum because of all your contributions. Then you've earned by far the right to have vacations from sharing. And maybe you'll continue it if you feel like it someday.

Enjoy your free time.

Links don't seem to be working.

Thank you so much for the upload and the reupload ! You guys are simply the best in the world :)

IS anon.click down for anyone else, or is it just my ISP playing silly games? Getting a Connection Timed Out error.

It's down for me as well.

It's down for me as well.

It works for me, look at this re-upload: Thread 218103

[center]Thank you, tangotreats. You're a national treasure.
Also thanks to trition for re-uploading the SD + MP3 -V0 encode (Post #38).
Furthermore, thanks to mr_merrick for offering PMs with the FLAC audio.


Thank you all!

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It works for me, look at this re-upload: Thread 218103

Still doesn't for me, but the re-up you pointed me to is working well. Thank you.

Does anoyne still have this in one single FLAC file, pretty please?

Does anoyne still have this in one single FLAC file, pretty please?

I have only the FLAC file split into multiple tracks. Wasn't aware a single file was ever uploaded. Does that help?
I assume you can also just convert the video, if you have it, into a single complete FLAC...

Well, the video apparently doesn't have the entire audio. I have separate FLAC files too, but want the big one because I'm a bit tired of my computer needing two seconds to start playing the next file.

Thank you, tangotreats. You're a national treasure.
Also thanks to trition for re-uploading the SD + MP3 -V0 encode (Post #38).
Furthermore, thanks to mr_merrick for offering PMs with the FLAC audio.

__________RE-UP__________
__________RE-UP__________
__________RE-UP__________

Ultra HQ - 50fps 720p with FLAC audio (4.63gb)：

<TT>ZippyShare (http://links.snahp.it/272Will%20Helm)</TT> | Password: OP's name

Audio Only, FLAC - Splitted & Tagged (713mb)：

<TT>MediaFire (http://links.snahp.it/568 Willgem)</TT> | Password: OP's name

Anyone have the video? It is down :(
I can report that FLAC is still available.

It's good to have your backup of the FLAC, because that link is also down now.

What I have is the smaller video (704x396, 909.1 MiB), and uploaded it here: VIDEO JW-PROM2017-SD.mkv (https://ulozto.net/!V47I10kdANaw/video-jw-prom2017-sd-mkv) .

I've had a few requests to reupload this... don't ask me why but this upload is like Kryptonite. Wherever you put it, however many passwords you cover it with, encrypted links, multiple redirects, misleading filenames, obfuscated file contents, whatever - within an hour it's gone.

Last time I reuploaded it, Mega decided to delete my account and I lost three years' uploads - all because persons unknown objected to an upload of a concert which was broadcast FOR FREE on the bloody radio.

I'll try to get it up again somewhere - but not at my usual account. I'm not going to risk this happening again.

Maybe a torrent.

(No complaints please - if you don't like torrents, sorry, but seriously... use them anyway. Options are limited for uploads that don't survive at filelockers.)

Ditto for other members.

I know you don't like sharing privately on request but that's still a non exclusive option (for example, in parallel with torrents) that should be easy to handle with the current level of activity. A warning like "Links will be sent twice a week; you can do other things in the mean time" would make things simpler for you and alleviate stress in the most impatient of us.