BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Prom 22: Visions and Journeys
This was an evening of three pieces linked by a single concept – regression as progression. In the “Composer Portrait”, Anthony Payne alluded to this as an important step in...
PCM3: New Phibbs
A packed house for this lunchtime concert in which the Spanish element of this season was much to the fore, even in a newly commissioned piece from this year’s youngest...
Prom 21: The Passion of Matthew
Bach’s St Matthew Passion adapted effortlessly to the Royal Albert Hall. In solemnity and grandeur, the concert gave the space of the hall a sense of being the interior of...
Prom 19: Russian Night with Spanish Tinge
This was a solidly successful concert from a Manchester team unfazed by the acoustic problems of the big barn. The players have after all been giving accomplished performances of Russian...
Prom 18: Love Is All Around
Continuing the Spanish theme in this year’s Proms season was a double-bill of operas often referred to but not often played. Goyescas has long suffered from having been adapted by...
Prom 17: Turnage Triptych (Part 2)
In a Proms season where castanets are more conspicuous than commissions, the prospect of a new orchestral work from Mark-Anthony Turnage was even more enticing than usual. He delivered the...
Prom 16: Twentieth-century Blues?
Just why this Prom was so poorly attended is unclear (those twentieth-century blues, perhaps?) – in terms of planning and execution, it is sure to be one of the successes...
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PROM 15Per Nørgård’s Sixth Symphony is just out on CHANDOS CHAN 9904. Click here to read full review.Nikolaj Znaider has made a marvellous CD of Nielsen’s adorable concerto on EMI...
Prom 15: Nørgård Premiere
Strange the way things work out. Despite his stature as a composer and cultural thinker, Per Nørgård (born 1932) has had relatively few performances in the UK, and this concert...
Prom 14: Inextinguishable Partnership
This Prom marked the conclusion of Osmo Vänskä’s Chief Conductor-ship of the BBC Scottish Symphony, and the dedication with which he has raised the orchestra to an often pre-eminent position...
PCM 2: Alexandre Tharaud
Young French pianist Alexandre Tharaud, with his clean-cut, preppy, schoolboy looks and neat technique, came to the Victoria & Albert’s Lecture Theatre with a programme of music mainly inspired by...
Prom 13: Songs of Gurre
With its six soloists, massed choirs (albeit used sparingly) and vast orchestra (though at times a few more string desks would not have come amiss), the Royal Albert Hall is...
Prom 12: Stompin’ at the Proms
Wynton Marsalis appeared at a late-night Prom in 1993 with his sextet (also including Wes ’Warmdaddy’ Anderson, Walter Blanding, Jr and Herlin Riley) and – at long last – he...
Prom 11: Christopher Columbus / Stabat Mater
An eminently sensible idea to run this Prom without an interval AND to have it start early – what more could one ask for? Well some commitment to the music-making...
Prom 10: A Wild Rumpus
Oliver Knussen’s 50th birthday has already been celebrated widely and it seems only fitting that the Proms should salute his unique contribution to our musical life both as conductor and...