BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

One certainly can’t, on paper at least, fault The Proms for their ambitiousness and diversity. Following the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s appearance with Leonard Slatkin playing Christopher Rouse and Mahler as...
Christopher Rouse has built a reputation over the last decade for orchestral works of depth and impact. Concertos have formed a central part of his recent output, though his approach...
Kremerata can be relied upon for discipline and artistry; Kremer himself for the unstinting commitment and daredevil virtuosity he brings to the vast repertoire he plays.The Schnittke began in a...
The representation of the mechanical was a predominant feature of this Prom with three-quarters of Schubert ’in a groove’ and the faster sections of Oberon’s Overture emphatic rather than exhilarating....
That a pastoral theme is integral to this year’s Proms was certainly reflected in the first of the eight Monday lunchtime recitals in the magnificent setting of the V &...
This BBC Proms tribute to Verdi, in the centenary year of his death, played to a packed house. This was an imaginative programme of excerpts from this most popular of...
Whatever the claims of the First Night (Paul Bunyan inspired by a legend of wide-open America, Elgar affected by the Malvern hills in his Cello Concerto and John Adams’s comment...
These days it seems that every music festival must have at least one, preferably several, themes - none more than the Proms under Nicholas Kenyon’s directorship. In earlier Proms’ regimes...
This year marks a very special time for me. I will lead six Prom concerts including the first and last nights. For all of these occasions we have planned some...
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