BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Prom 10 – Ruby
The organ loft was bathed in blue for part one, then mauve. Here we go again. Pointless! Nothing to do with listening to music. Could not the gold lighting be...
Prom 9 – MacMillan’s Silence
Although James Macmillan is already Composer/Conductor to the BBC Philharmonic, he could without too much exaggeration carry that title with regard to the BBC Proms. Since the sensational premiere of...
Prom 8 – Antigone Alone
One of the worst-attended Proms I have ever been to, this intriguing and certainly worthwhile rediscovery of a little known Mendelssohn work – which tied in to the overriding Proms...
Prom 7 – London Symphonies
There were no composer anniversaries commemorated in this concert. Instead, although there was a contribution to the Proms theme of Greek mythology, there was a unifying theme to the symphonies:...
Prom 6 – Celebrating Corelli
Amidst the plethora of composer-anniversaries this year (and I forgot to mention in my review of The Nation’s Favourite Prom the centenary of Aram Khachaturian’s birth), there is the 350th-birthday...
Prom 5 – Berio Tribute
The first of this year’s late-night Proms, and a welcome visit from the Northern Sinfonia and their new Music Director, Thomas Zehetmair. Well established as a violinist and, more recently,...
Proms Chamber Music No.1 (21 July)
The wind quintet – indeed all wind ensemble music – seems (pardon the inapposite pun) always to play second string to string quartets; so this opening concert of the Proms...
Prom 4 – Budapest Festival Orchestra
The culture and refinement of the Budapest Festival Orchestra is unmistakable. There are also some Slavonic tendencies. Note ’some’. Iván Fischer, usually musical to a fault, can be a tad...
Proms Chamber Music No.1 (21 July)
The wind quintet – indeed all wind ensemble music – seems (pardon the inapposite pun) always to play second string to string quartets; so this opening concert of the Proms...
Prom 3 – King Priam
With Sir Michael Tippett’s centenary still two years away, you might be forgiven for thinking tonight’s revival of his opera King Priam a little premature. Yet it fits naturally into...
Prom 2 – Peter at the Proms
The Nation’s Favourite Prom has now become an established feature of the annual Prom schedule. The first – two years ago on an early August Sunday afternoon – was with...
Proms 2003 First Night
The opening fanfares rang out thrillingly to herald the 109th season of the Proms. One of the very few of his works without an apparent ’subtext’ – subversive or otherwise...
Prom 1 – The First Night
The opening fanfares rang out thrillingly to herald the 109th season of the Proms. One of the very few of his works without an apparent ’subtext’ – subversive or otherwise...
Prom 73: The Last Night
After the extraordinary events of last year’s Last Night it was almost inconceivable that it could ever be the same again. There were some ungracious members of the audience that...
Prom 72: Italian Mahler
In terms of funding and critical esteem, the RPO remains the Cinderella of the London orchestras, but it is not always easy to see why. In Daniele Gatti the players...
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