BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Prom 49: 27th August 2001
Less than a week after an Oriental soloist and a Russian orchestra played Russian music at the Proms (No.43), it was now the turn of an Oriental orchestra with a...
Prom Chamber Music 6: 27th August 2001- “Stravinsky’s Scintillating Soldier”
There really is something special about the Chamber Music Proms at the Victoria and Albert Museum every Monday throughout the main season. Although it would have been lost on Radio...
Prom 48: 26th August – Boston Symphony Two
For the second of his two Proms with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink played to his Francophile side by conducting Stravinsky, from his Parisian days in the late 1920s,...
Prom 47: 25th August 2001
It’s been ten years since the Boston Symphony last played at the Proms, and several since Bernard Haitink appeared there. His undemonstrative, musicianly manner is always a pleasure to experience,...
Prom 46: 24th August 2001
The question as to whether Günter Wand would appear at this year’s Proms has been an unofficial theme running through the season so far. With his previous London appearance almost...
Prom 45: 23rd August 2001 – Late Night Slatkin
Continuing this year’s Proms’ crusade for American music, Leonard Slatkin took us on a stroll around Harlem in the company of Duke Ellington before whisking us off to Gershwin’s Hollywood...
Prom 44: 23rd August – Of things sacred and royal
In what was probably the hottest day so far at the Royal Albert Hall, this concert was never going to add up to more than the sum of its parts....
Prom 43: 22nd August 2001
What do you think of when regarding an Eastern European orchestra? Passion, commitment, rawness and rhythmic energy; drama rather than smoothness, a certain grainy quality of string tone and brashness...
Prom 42: 21st August 2001
A great agenda of pieces, one offering thoughtful contrasts and links. All the music was composed between, or gestated from (Copland), 1932 and 1945; all of it was premiered in...
Prom 41: 20th August 2001 – Late Night Sinfonietta
Taking on a late-night Prom this season, Oliver Knussen came up with an enterprising, if oddly constituted programme which served several commemorative purposes.The exception to this was Kenneth Hesketh’s The...
Prom 40: 20th August 2001 – Schoenberg Premiere
Programme-wise, this was the most revealing concert so far this season. The three main works all represent the ’symphonic tradition’ at its most recreative and uncompromising, even though only one...
Prom Chamber Music 5: 20th August 2001- Amazing Aimard
Having already delighted Proms audiences with his fearless and peerless assumption of Messiaen’s piano solo in Turangalîla just over a week earlier (Prom 29), French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard was back...
Prom 39: 19th August 2001 – CBSO
For his third Prom at the helm of the CBSO, Sakari Oramo directed a programme that worked better ’in the flesh’ than on paper. Maybe a curtain-raiser before the Dvorák...
Prom 38: 18th August 2001 – Salve, Sidus Polonorum
It was good to hear the BBC Symphony Chorus given something worthier of its talents than Sally Beamish’s piece, which I reviewed earlier this season (Prom 12). The Chorus is...
Prom 36: 17th August 2001
2001, in the ’Space Odyssey’ sense, is one of numerous semi-themes running through this year’s Proms, though Kubrick’s often visionary perspective on the future of humanity hardly accords with the...
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