BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Prom 16: Twentieth-century Blues?
Just why this Prom was so poorly attended is unclear (those twentieth-century blues, perhaps?) – in terms of planning and execution, it is sure to be one of the successes...
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PROM 15Per Nørgård’s Sixth Symphony is just out on CHANDOS CHAN 9904. Click here to read full review.Nikolaj Znaider has made a marvellous CD of Nielsen’s adorable concerto on EMI...
Prom 15: Nørgård Premiere
Strange the way things work out. Despite his stature as a composer and cultural thinker, Per Nørgård (born 1932) has had relatively few performances in the UK, and this concert...
Prom 14: Inextinguishable Partnership
This Prom marked the conclusion of Osmo Vänskä’s Chief Conductor-ship of the BBC Scottish Symphony, and the dedication with which he has raised the orchestra to an often pre-eminent position...
PCM 2: Alexandre Tharaud
Young French pianist Alexandre Tharaud, with his clean-cut, preppy, schoolboy looks and neat technique, came to the Victoria & Albert’s Lecture Theatre with a programme of music mainly inspired by...
Prom 13: Songs of Gurre
With its six soloists, massed choirs (albeit used sparingly) and vast orchestra (though at times a few more string desks would not have come amiss), the Royal Albert Hall is...
Prom 12: Stompin’ at the Proms
Wynton Marsalis appeared at a late-night Prom in 1993 with his sextet (also including Wes ’Warmdaddy’ Anderson, Walter Blanding, Jr and Herlin Riley) and – at long last – he...
Prom 11: Christopher Columbus / Stabat Mater
An eminently sensible idea to run this Prom without an interval AND to have it start early – what more could one ask for? Well some commitment to the music-making...
Prom 10: A Wild Rumpus
Oliver Knussen’s 50th birthday has already been celebrated widely and it seems only fitting that the Proms should salute his unique contribution to our musical life both as conductor and...
Prom 9: Late-night Triumphs
The King’s Singers have undergone a number of personnel changes since the group started 34 years ago. It is good to report that into its fourth decade the sextet is...
Prom 8: Bournemouth Symphony
Paul Daniel is a good organiser. Hans Werner Henze’s elaboration of Soler’s harpsichord fandango (the same piece that Roberto Sierra utilised in his enjoyable piece played on the First Night)...
Prom 7: Barcelona Symphony
Spain, and its musical influence, is the theme running through this year’s Proms, and who better to present a largely Spanish programme than a home-grown orchestra. The Barcelona Symphony is...
Prom 6: Late-night Handel
The first late-night Prom of this year’s season highlighted the biblical theme, eschewing its perhaps more popular Spanish thematic compatriot, and welcoming back to the Royal Albert Hall Sir John...
Prom 5: Flicka’s Proms Debut
While noting that Anthony Payne notches up his third and fourth Proms’ commissions this season, it is not given to many composers to receive a second from the Proms, still...
Prom 4: The Colour Purple
The youngest of Paris’s three symphony orchestras – a statistic worth remembering next time London is said to have too many – arrived with its recently installed Music Director for...
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