BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

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Prom 43: Ravel, Mozart, Holmes, Mussorgsky – City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra – Kazuki Yamada
The main item in this most enjoyable concert by the visiting City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under their chief conductor Kazuki Yamada may have been Sir Henry Wood’s orchestration of...
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Prom 42: Beethoven’s Ninth by Heart from the Aurora Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Collon
Aurora Orchestra concerts have made a big thing of elaborate explanation and deconstruction of the music they are about to play, but their introduction for this Prom was their biggest...
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Prom 41: Mozart with Ensemble Resonanz
The divine and the human appear to co-exist in Mozart’s music. This celebration of the composer’s enduring genius brings ‘peak’ Mozart to the Royal Albert Hall, culminating in the continuous...
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Prom 40: Bach’s St John Passion
Nobody does Bach quite like the Bach Collegium Japan. The ensemble makes a welcome return to the Proms for the composer’s concentrated depiction of Christ’s arrest, rendition and execution –...
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Prom 38: Stravinsky’s The Firebird with the BBC Symphony Orchestra
Stravinsky showed his true colours in The Firebird. In this coruscating ballet music he unleashed for the first time the vivid colours that would captivate generations of theatre-goers. He had the...
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Prom 39: Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony
Hot-property conductor Daniele Rustioni brings his Ulster Orchestra to London for a Prom concluding with Dvořák’s stirring Symphony No. 7, in which dark clouds and bright sunshine jostle for supremacy...
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Prom 37: Britten’s War Requiem
The War Requiem is a ‘natural’ for the Proms for all kinds of reasons. There have been sceptics, most famously Igor Stravinsky, but those unpersuaded by Britten’s large-scale quasi-liturgical hit...
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Prom 36: Gemma New conducts Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
In the summer of 1826 Felix Mendelssohn stumbled upon a German translation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream made by August Wilhelm Schlegel. Spellbound, the 17-year-old composer wrote an orchestral overture for the...
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Prom 35: Ellington, Braxton and Mary Lou Williams
Ilan Volkov and friends celebrate milestones from the past 100 years of American jazz, starting with a sequence honouring the ‘Duke’. Mary Lou Williams’s Zodiac Suite from 1945 romps between boogie-woogie and...
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Prom 34: 21st-Century Soundtracks – Robert Ames conducts the London Contemporary Orchestra
Film scores by Echo Society featuring Brendan Angelides and Rob Simonsen ], Bryce Dessner, Anna Meredith, Son Lux, Tamar Kali, Colin Stetson, Herdis Steffansdottir, Isobel Waller-Bridge, Hauschka (Volker Bertelmann), Echo...
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Prom 33: Titans of British Music
From Westminster Bridge and the bells of Big Ben to Bloomsbury Square, in his A London Symphony Vaughan Williams depicts the English capital, where horses still trotted through the streets and the...
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Prom 32: Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony
With his Symphony No. 7 Beethoven permanently realigned Western music’s fundamental relationship with rhythm. In the process he created some of the most compelling music of his age. Young Italian-Turkish...
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Proms Belfast: Debussy, Fauré and Holmès
Step into fin de siècle Paris, where the poet Verlaine, the painter Monet and the composers Fauré and Debussy would meet at regular soirées. From Verlaine, Fauré took nine poems to set...
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Prom 31: Anne-Sophie Mutter plays Brahms
In 1999, young Arab and Israeli musicians came together for the groundbreaking creative and social experiment that was the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra. A quarter of a century later, the ideals...
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Prom 29: Jonathan Scott – Organ Recital
Jonathan Scott tames the mighty mechanical beast that is the Royal Albert Hall organ for this mid-morning recital that promises to show everything the 9,999-pipe instrument can do – bells...