BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

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BBC Proms: Tristan Jakob-Hoff’s Top 10 Selection
The BBC Proms begin on Friday 13 July – spooky! Tristan Jakob-Hoff makes a personal selection from the 84 concerts…Proms 24 & 26 (31 July & 1 August): Ilan Volkov...
The Last Night
And so to the 112th Last Night of the Proms – a record-breaking season with 34 of the 72 concerts sold out (it would have been 35 out of 73,...
Mozart & Mackerras
A Proms season in which Mozart features so prominently would not be complete without the presence of Sir Charles Mackerras, whose insights into this most ubiquitous of classical composers are...
Bruch No.1 & Shostakovich 10
Max Bruch's First Violin Concerto is the work by which the composer is remembered, in spite of a corpus that includes two other violin concertos, several concertante works for violin...
Resurrection Symphony
Mahler completed his monumental Second Symphony in 1894, and revised it two years later, and continued to make changes. (These are now published in Gilbert Kaplan’s Critical Edition of the...
Shostakovich & Rachmaninov
A consensus performance often materialises for often-played works. The audience comes to know how the piece ‘should’ sound. Playing and interpretation, even if energetic, become automatic. A ‘new’ interpretation is...
Camerata Salzburg/Leonidas Kavakos
This was ‘eine kleine nachtmusik’, not literally but metaphorically; Haydn and Mozart played with complete understanding and naturalness, always poised but never showy and with a complete rightness of rhythmical...
Philadelphia Orchestra/Eschenbach (2)
The Proms back into full stride after the previous night’s cancellation meant that the Philadelphia Orchestra (booked for two concerts) was able to contribute to this season – with two...
Stephen Kovacevich
Stephen Kovacevich's EMI recording of Schubert’s A major sonata is for me the greatest ever committed to disc, so to hear him play it live with the single-movement Berg was...
Philadelphia Orchestra/Eschenbach (1) [Cancelled]
"Due to the loss of electrical power following a minor fire at the Royal Albert Hall, it is with great regret that the Royal Albert Hall has been forced to...
Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle (2)
This concert presented a conundrum. With so much music he conducts, and so well, to choose from, why should Simon Rattle alight on Bruckner – a composer for whom he...
Escape Velocity
The final Proms Saturday Matinee of this season was a ‘Mostly Mozart’ affair, a couple of evergreens buttressing a rarely-played score, the concert spiced by a premiere for which OSJ’s...
Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle (1)
Sir Simon Rattle's and Berliner Philharmoniker’s appearances have now become a keenly-awaited, if not always artistically fulfilling, Proms fixture – but there can be little doubt that this showing was...
Songs of Despair and Sorrow … Rothko Chapel
Late-night proms have long yielded some of the most imaginative programmes. A choral concert with a difference, it opened with a welcome 80th-birthday tribute to György Kurtág. “Songs of Despair...
Goode Mozart and Bělohlávek Bruckner
Jiří Bělohlávek 's first Proms season as Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra has featured a wide range of music, with symphonic repertoire a notable feature – and, as...