BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Chamber Music No.3
Dvořák the songwriter was celebrated in this lunchtime Chamber Prom at the V & A. A selection of his Moravian Duets, folk-based ditties here sung in a decidedly old (and...
The Veil of the Temple
Sir John Tavener's seven-hour vigil was first performed in July 2003 at the Temple Church in London. This Prom performance was the first one of the so-called 'concert version'. It...
War Requiem
This concert started with the world première of a recently found piece for solo organ that Benjamin Britten wrote in 1940 when he was in America. He left the piece...
Out Here To Swing!
Back after Wynton Marsalis brought it to Kensington for its Proms debut two years ago, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra returned in a blaze of swing for this late-night Prom.These...
BRSO 2
The great anticipation for this second Bavarian Radio Prom from Mariss Jansons, with his Latvian compatriot Gidon Kremer, was for once fully justified. This was a memorable concert, made even...
BRSO 1
The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra responded unfailingly to all the demands of its new Chief Conductor. One senses mutual admiration. Yet for all the moulded phrasing, sparkling details, exuberance, and...
Frescoes, Taras Bulba…
This Prom was a curious experience.Its oddity was partly due to the Albert Hall acoustic: some sounds were swallowed up and some blazoned out with shining sonic distinctiveness.The Frescoes of...
Curlew River
Ev’nin’ all!I understand that you want to know what happened on the 28 inst. at the Royal Albert Hall in London? Well, let me refer to my notes.Ah, yes …...
Glagolitic Mass
Not a concert that looked exactly promising – Schubert's proto-Romantic soul-searching seemingly unrelated to Janáček's exalted vision. Kurt Masur must have conducted the 'Unfinished' many times during his 50-year career,...
SCO
Although not billed as such, this gem of a concert marked Joseph Swensen’s farewell to the Proms as Principal Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. At the end of the...
Elgar Elaborated
A bitty bill of fare this and a long one, but it did at least demonstrate the versatility of its conductor. The official line was that we were celebrating the...
Chamber Music No.2
After his studied indifference while playing Elgar’s Violin Concerto the night before at the Royal Albert Hall (where his most demonstrative gesture was hurling the bouquet of flowers, immediately as...
Elgar & Dvořák
Two of Britain’s most popular composers were brought together in this programme, by which I mean two composers most be-loved of Britons. Elgar needs no introduction, nor should Dvořák –...
Blue Peter Prom
The Prom began with the “Blue Peter” theme – music that belongs to children and is much jollier than our National Anthem.“Blue Peter” presenters, Liz Barker and Simon Thomas, were...
Ives 4
With no apparent connection between the three works, save that each includes quotation or borrows from vernacular sources, this was, nevertheless, a satisfying concert, strongly performed by the CBSO under...