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Wild things: Conductors at the 2013 Proms
Wild things: Conductors at the 2013 Proms
Feast on our annual gallery of baton men and women
Monday, 09 September 2013
Sweet Prom 16: Jac Van Steen
"What I’m looking for is that fraction of a second that at least I could remember the concert by." At the start of the 2013 BBC Proms season, photographer Chris Christodoulou let theartsdesk into the secret of snapping conductors at work. Now that the Proms are over for another year, we publish not the official shots, but the ones which are simply too quirky to be released by the BBC press office.
These images may not particularly flatter their subjects, but they do capture what it is to be a silent maestro magically conjuring sound from the massed ranks of an orchestra. Make sure to click on the images to enlarge. And in the comment box let us know which is your favourite.
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Prom 5: Jonathan Nott
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Prom 6: Juanjo Mena
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Prom 8: Thomas Adès
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Prom 10: Antonio Pappano
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Prom 19: Semyon Bychkov
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Prom 20: Daniel Barenboim
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Prom 25: Nicholas Collon
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Prom 27: Peter Oundjian
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Prom 29: Donald Runnicles
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Prom 30: Gianandrea Noseda
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Prom 31: John Storgårds
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Prom 32: Edward Gardner
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Prom 42: Kirill Karabits
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Prom 49: Robin Ticciati
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Prom 52: Sakari Oramo
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Prom 53: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
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Prom 55: Antoni Wit
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Prom 56: Philippe Jordan
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Prom 57: Mark Elder
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Prom 59: John Wilson
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Prom 61: Josep Pons
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Prom 64: Vladimir Jurowski
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Prom 67: Paavo Järvi
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Prom 72: Xian Zhang
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Prom 74: Lorin Maazel
Prom 75: Marin Alsop
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It's not about 'favourite
It's not about 'favourite conductors', it's about Chris's choice of what he thinks are the most interesting images from the Proms. You will find his images of Gergiev three years running in his 2010, 2011 and 2012 Proms galleries ('The Art of Conducting') for The Arts Desk.