BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Prom 3 – King Priam
With Sir Michael Tippett’s centenary still two years away, you might be forgiven for thinking tonight’s revival of his opera King Priam a little premature. Yet it fits naturally into...
Prom 2 – Peter at the Proms
The Nation’s Favourite Prom has now become an established feature of the annual Prom schedule. The first – two years ago on an early August Sunday afternoon – was with...
Proms 2003 First Night
The opening fanfares rang out thrillingly to herald the 109th season of the Proms. One of the very few of his works without an apparent ’subtext’ – subversive or otherwise...
Prom 1 – The First Night
The opening fanfares rang out thrillingly to herald the 109th season of the Proms. One of the very few of his works without an apparent ’subtext’ – subversive or otherwise...
Prom 73: The Last Night
After the extraordinary events of last year’s Last Night it was almost inconceivable that it could ever be the same again. There were some ungracious members of the audience that...
Prom 72: Italian Mahler
In terms of funding and critical esteem, the RPO remains the Cinderella of the London orchestras, but it is not always easy to see why. In Daniele Gatti the players...
Prom 71: Music First and Last
Almost at the end of this year’s Proms, and what could be more welcome than a coupling of two symphonic classicists, directed by the most classical – that is, interpretatively...
Prom 70: September 11 – A Year On
A prom for September 11 might have seemed like a poisoned chalice, but Sakari Oramo and the CBSO grasped the nettle with this programme of bold contrasts.With a title drawn...
My First Last Night – Leonard Slatkin
It was supposed to be a concert like no other. It was supposed to be special. It was supposed to break with tradition.It did, but not like anyone could have...
Prom 69: Unsettling C major
The opening of Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto immediately compels attention – quiet chords on the piano, building in intensity and leading to arpeggios which herald the arrival of the first...
Prom 67: Dohnányi at Play
The final week of the Proms, which affords a snap shot of the state of four of the five London Symphony Orchestras (a week, unusually, without international visitors), opened with...
Prom 64: Tantalising Tango
I thought of the headline waiting for a tube at Paddington, an indication that I was going to this concert optimistically and unbiased. Now, I’m angling for a complementary case...
Prom 63: Post-modern Tchaikovsky
Older listeners may continue to think of him as an accomplished pianist and younger viewers will notice the resemblance to Patrick Stewart late of the Starship Enterprise, but tonight’s conductor...
Prom 62: Goode Mozart
Richard Goode is a pianist capable of moulding together extremes – humour and high seriousness, attention to detail and an unbroken melodic line, intellect and emotion; a very classical modernity,...
Prom 61: Late-night Chant
A fine concert celebrating two centenaries – Walton and Duruflé – and a half-century: Simon Bainbridge was 50 a few weeks ago.The Twelve is a late work (1965) not heard...