BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Prom 22: 5th August 2001 – European Invasion
For the fifth time of asking in a week, this hugely talented and committed orchestra of young musicians (23 is the maximum age) from all over Europe demonstrated at this...
Prom 21: 5th August 2001 – Nation’s Favourite
Invite passive listeners, those who iron-to-music and street-whistle, to nominate their ’favourite’ music and you get what you get. This afternoon-concert contained great music – which was great before such...
Prom 20: 4th August 2001 – Song of the Cosmos
The universe is big – very, very big - and so it is only reasonable to expect a very big work with a very big number of musicians to celebrate...
Prom 18: 3rd August 2001
This programme was clearly designed in two distinct halves. The first required acute hearing for the detailed sounds of two composers delving into the philosophical language of Paracelsus and Plato;...
Prom 17: 2nd August 2001 – ROYAL PALACE
Now Conductor Laureate of the BBC Symphony, Sir Andrew Davis made the second of two welcome BBCSO re-appearances this season in a contrasted programme which, if not more than the...
Prom 16: 1st August 2001
A quick questionnaire. Where do you stand in the Radio 3 versus Classic FM debate? Or is it perhaps a harmonious co-existence for you? Were you enthralled by the imagination...
Prom 15: 31st July 2001 – LATE-NIGHT HAYDN
Thankfully the RAH had cooled off a little by the time this late-night Prom started. The brief excerpts from Beethoven’s ballet provided a fitting ’overture’, with some particularly expressive woodwind...
Prom 14: MacRae Premiere
At 28 minutes, Stuart MacRae’s Violin Concerto is a substantial and intriguing addition to what has proved a diverse genre over the last decade. MacRae’s is not so much an...
Prom 13: 30th July 2001
It says much about the continuing success of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s partnership with Osmo Vänskä that this diverse yet thoughtfully-conceived programme was brought off with conviction - and...
Prom Chamber Music 2: 30th July 2001 – A British Baritone in Clover
The second Chamber Music Prom this year was devoted almost in its entirety to the English pastoral movement, typified by early 20th-century songsmiths Vaughan Williams and Butterworth, and slightly later...
Prom 12: 29th July 2001 – KNOTGRASS ELEGY
Having being blown away (again!) by the inventiveness of Britten’s Spring Symphony the night before (Prom 11), it would hardly be fair to expect a similar reaction to a brand...
Prom 11: 28th July 2001 – Spring Symphony
This year’s ’Pastoral’ theme was to the fore in this Prom, focusing in particular on the spring season. Debussy’s evocation was composed in 1887 during the time when he was...
Prom 10: 28th July 2001 – BLUE PETER “Town and Country”
One of the successful ways in which Nick Kenyon has tied in BBC-TV to the Proms is to create new collaborations around established TV programmes. This Friday’s ’The Later Prom’...
Prom 9: 27th July 2001- A RUBBRA SYMPHONY
Of those British composers whose centenaries will be marked over the next two years, Edmund Rubbra has the most distinctive personality and depth of vision, his powerful yet unassertive integrity...
Prom 8: 26th July 2001 – MACMILLAN PREMIERE
A half-empty Royal Albert Hall would be a full house in most concert venues - but given a programme that looked exciting on paper, the low turnout was hard to...
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