BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Prom 70: 12th September 2001 – Paris 2
Another offering from the polished and committed Paris Orchestra, with the stylish, always controlled conducting of Christoph Eschenbach; and, as with Prom 68, a work - The Rite of Spring...
Prom 69: 11th September 2001 – Percussion old and new
This late-night percussion Prom took on a different complexion in the light of events across the Atlantic, the least of which was the almost 30-minute delay to the starting time....
Prom 68: 11th September 2001 – Paris 1
The line between civilisation and barbarism, life and death is very narrow. We live in an age when we hide from death, when it is shut away in hospitals, beneath...
Prom 67: 10th September – Goehr Premiere
Forty years ago, Alexander Goehr received his first Proms performance, and it may well be possible to trace his musical development over the eleven works performed since then. Back in...
Proms Chamber Music No.8: 10th September 2001
A lunchtime concert given by representatives of Radio 3’s "New Generation Artists". Predictably a concert characterised by enthusiasm and freshness, if not the last degree of finish.Late Schubert is more...
Prom 66: 9th September 2001 – Beethoven 9
This concert devoted to Beethoven was always going to be something of a ’feel-good’ Prom. Beethoven’s ability to speak to the soul, and his overcoming of insurmountable obstacles - his...
Prom 65: 8th September 2001- Chicago Symphony 2
Daniel Barenboim’s visits to the Proms with the Chicago Symphony have balanced commissions with symphonic classics. Three years ago, Birtwistle’s Exody was paired with Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. At this Prom,...
Prom 64: 7th September – Late-night Birtwistle
A reasonable size audience gathered for another late-night Prom - again finishing on time! Thank you! An intelligent, varied programme that once more suffered from the unhelpful acoustic of the...
Prom 63: 7th September – Chicago Symphony 1
There are times when an orchestra is so famous that they could play ’Frère Jacques’ badly and still get a standing ovation. As the last chords fell, tolling the demise...
Prom 62: 6th September 2001 – John Adams
It’s official, John Adams is the most frequently performed living American composer - no mean feat given the sheer number of US orchestras with resident composers and academic institutions with...
Prom 61: 5th September – Brendel
A symphony that’s not a symphony, a concerto that’s not a concerto - and Brendel déjà vu.K318 is a short three-movement Italian sinfonia, the third section musically similar to the...
Prom 60: 4th September 2001 – Czech Philharmonic 2
Perception is all! After a great concert the previous evening (Prom 58) I was looking forward to another with the Czech Philharmonic. My liking for Ashkenazy and his honest, genuine...
Prom 59: 3rd September 2001 – Late-night Schoenberg
Schoenberg has fared well at the Proms this year, the fiftieth anniversary of his death. Tonight’s late Prom brought together two works which respectively mark the onset of his early...
Prom 58: 3rd September 2001 – Czech Philharmonic
We are being spoiled by the Czech Philharmonic. London has already seen the Orchestra this season, with current Chief Conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, for two Barbican concerts; their two Proms (this...
Prom 57: 2nd September 2001 – Out of Light
For the last of its four Proms appearances, its Japanese Conductor Laureate, Tadaaki Otaka, and the Swiss-born Andreas Haefliger joined BBCNOW. This year’s theme of exile was clearly defined. Bartok’s...