BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Prom 65: 8th September 2001- Chicago Symphony 2
Daniel Barenboim’s visits to the Proms with the Chicago Symphony have balanced commissions with symphonic classics. Three years ago, Birtwistle’s Exody was paired with Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. At this Prom,...
Prom 64: 7th September – Late-night Birtwistle
A reasonable size audience gathered for another late-night Prom - again finishing on time! Thank you! An intelligent, varied programme that once more suffered from the unhelpful acoustic of the...
Prom 63: 7th September – Chicago Symphony 1
There are times when an orchestra is so famous that they could play ’Frère Jacques’ badly and still get a standing ovation. As the last chords fell, tolling the demise...
Prom 62: 6th September 2001 – John Adams
It’s official, John Adams is the most frequently performed living American composer - no mean feat given the sheer number of US orchestras with resident composers and academic institutions with...
Prom 61: 5th September – Brendel
A symphony that’s not a symphony, a concerto that’s not a concerto - and Brendel déjà vu.K318 is a short three-movement Italian sinfonia, the third section musically similar to the...
Prom 60: 4th September 2001 – Czech Philharmonic 2
Perception is all! After a great concert the previous evening (Prom 58) I was looking forward to another with the Czech Philharmonic. My liking for Ashkenazy and his honest, genuine...
Prom 59: 3rd September 2001 – Late-night Schoenberg
Schoenberg has fared well at the Proms this year, the fiftieth anniversary of his death. Tonight’s late Prom brought together two works which respectively mark the onset of his early...
Prom 58: 3rd September 2001 – Czech Philharmonic
We are being spoiled by the Czech Philharmonic. London has already seen the Orchestra this season, with current Chief Conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, for two Barbican concerts; their two Proms (this...
Prom 57: 2nd September 2001 – Out of Light
For the last of its four Proms appearances, its Japanese Conductor Laureate, Tadaaki Otaka, and the Swiss-born Andreas Haefliger joined BBCNOW. This year’s theme of exile was clearly defined. Bartok’s...
Prom 56: 1st September 2001
A well-balanced concert of Central European music - Germanic and Slavonic with a heavy flavouring of gypsy and folk elements. While their countrymen contested a historic sporting battle on the...
Prom 54: 31st August 2001
For the second of their two concerts, Herbert Blomstedt and his Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra paired two works, by Sibelius and Mahler. In 1907 these composers had met in Helsinki where...
Prom 53: 30th August 2001
Mendelssohn spent the last ten or so years of his short life (1809-47) in Leipzig as conductor of the Gewandhaus; he also founded the Leipzig Conservatory. His music is a...
Prom 52: 29th August 2001 – Late Night Lambert
Thankfully the Proms got it right this time - this concert finished on time thereby not making it necessary to rush off for public transport before the end. The Britten...
Prom 51: 29th August 2001 – Boulez
Although its a quarter-century since Pierre Boulez presided over the BBC Symphony Orchestra, memories of that era, even among those not actually present, emerge whenever he returns to the orchestra,...
Prom 50: 28th August 2001 – Kirov Orchestra
Gergiev and the Kirov had a lot to prove at this concert. Whether it was the debacle that characterised the company’s recent Covent Garden Verdi residency, or the fact that...
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