BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Prom 30 NYO Cr. Chris Christodoulou 11
Prom 30: Alexandre Bloch conducts The National Youth Orchestra in Missy Mazzoli’s Orpheus Undone and  Mahler’s First Symphony; Tess Jackson conducts the world premiere of Dani Howard’s Three, Four AND … 
The National Youth Orchestra's visits to the Proms never let you down. With their massed ranks of strings, woodwind, brass and percussion, led this year by eighteen-year-old Rose Gosney from...
Prom 27 BBCSO Oramo cr. Mark Allan4
Prom 27: Strauss’s An Alpine Symphony
In a Prom that could best be described as a curate's egg – good in parts – the BBC Symphony Orchestra served up a program that oscillated between the ethereal...
Prom 28 London Sinfonietta AAM cr. Mark Allan9
Prom 28: Songs of Wars I Have Seen
In 2007 new-music ensemble the London Sinfonietta and period-instrument outfit the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment together gave the first performance of Heiner Goebbels’s Songs of Wars I Have Seen,...
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Prom 26: Beethoven, Brahms and Sarah Gibson
For Brahms, composing music was a quest to balance head and heart. The composer’s final symphony is the most exquisite example of that mission, a piece as radiant as poetry...
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Prom 25: Storgårds conducts Tchaikovsky’s Fourth
Few composers captured life’s struggles as vividly as Tchaikovsky. ‘This is Fate,’ wrote the composer in 1877 as he grappled with the opening notes of his Symphony No. 4. ‘It...
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Prom 24: Purcell’s The Fairy Queen
After critically acclaimed runs in New York, Paris and around the world, Mourad Merzouki’s staging of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen comes to the Proms. Expression and spontaneity characterise both Merzouki’s hip hop-derived...
PROM 22 Andy Paradise 18
Prom 22: Relaxed Prom
Saxophonist and broadcaster Jess Gillam presents a relaxed performance of selected pieces from yesterday morning’s concert (Prom 20) from brothers Braimah and Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Brazilian guitarist Plínio Fernandes and the Fantasia Orchestra....
Prom 23 Cr. Andy Paradise 9
Prom 23: Edward Gardner conducts the LPO – Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances; Benjamin Grosvenor plays Busoni’s Piano Concerto
If Mahler said that the symphony should be like the world and embrace everything, then Busoni seems to be doing something of the same in his single Piano Concerto (premiered...
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Prom 20: Songs and Dances with the Kanneh-Masons
A concert of folk songs, dances, prayers and incantations, featuring brothers Braimah and Sheku Kanneh-Mason and the captivating Brazilian guitarist Plínio Fernandes. The dynamic Fantasia Orchestra makes its Proms debut...
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Proms Newport: vision string quartet with Mahan Mirarab
At Newport for the first time, the Proms hosts a string ensemble from Berlin that is half quartet, half band – and the programme it brings proves the point. The...
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Prom 21: The Sinfonia of London and John Wilson
It is an oft-repeated truism that few festivals can compete with the range of music presented at the Proms since Henry Wood took up the reins in 1895. John Wilson...
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Prom 19: Elgar’s Cello Concerto
Deeply in love and enlightened by Sanskrit literature, Gustav Holst embarked upon what many consider his true masterpiece. The Cloud Messenger recounts an ancient tale in which a man sends a message...
Prom 18 Sam Smith Cr. Andy Paradise 19
Prom 18: Sam Smith – In the lonely hour
In a unique fusion of pop sensibility and orchestral grandeur, Sam Smith made their only UK appearance of 2024 at the BBC Proms, marking the tenth anniversary of their landmark...
PROM 17 Andy Paradise 3
Prom 17: Vasily Petrenko conducts Tchaikovsky
The excellence of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under their conductor Vasily Petrenko continues with each concert. Thursday’s Prom was a vivid and well-contrasted programme that showed off all departments of...
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Prom 16: John Storgårds conducts the BBC Philharmonic – Lawrence Power is the soloist in the Proms premiere of Cassandra Miller’s Viola Concerto. And Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 4
The title of Cassandra Miller’s new Viola Concerto – ‘I cannot love without trembling’ - is a quote from the philosopher Simone Weill about the fragility of existence, expressed through...