BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Prom 56: 1st September 2001
A well-balanced concert of Central European music - Germanic and Slavonic with a heavy flavouring of gypsy and folk elements. While their countrymen contested a historic sporting battle on the...
Prom 54: 31st August 2001
For the second of their two concerts, Herbert Blomstedt and his Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra paired two works, by Sibelius and Mahler. In 1907 these composers had met in Helsinki where...
Prom 53: 30th August 2001
Mendelssohn spent the last ten or so years of his short life (1809-47) in Leipzig as conductor of the Gewandhaus; he also founded the Leipzig Conservatory. His music is a...
Prom 52: 29th August 2001 – Late Night Lambert
Thankfully the Proms got it right this time - this concert finished on time thereby not making it necessary to rush off for public transport before the end. The Britten...
Prom 51: 29th August 2001 – Boulez
Although its a quarter-century since Pierre Boulez presided over the BBC Symphony Orchestra, memories of that era, even among those not actually present, emerge whenever he returns to the orchestra,...
Prom 50: 28th August 2001 – Kirov Orchestra
Gergiev and the Kirov had a lot to prove at this concert. Whether it was the debacle that characterised the company’s recent Covent Garden Verdi residency, or the fact that...
Prom 49: 27th August 2001
Less than a week after an Oriental soloist and a Russian orchestra played Russian music at the Proms (No.43), it was now the turn of an Oriental orchestra with a...
Prom Chamber Music 6: 27th August 2001- “Stravinsky’s Scintillating Soldier”
There really is something special about the Chamber Music Proms at the Victoria and Albert Museum every Monday throughout the main season. Although it would have been lost on Radio...
Prom 48: 26th August – Boston Symphony Two
For the second of his two Proms with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink played to his Francophile side by conducting Stravinsky, from his Parisian days in the late 1920s,...
Prom 47: 25th August 2001
It’s been ten years since the Boston Symphony last played at the Proms, and several since Bernard Haitink appeared there. His undemonstrative, musicianly manner is always a pleasure to experience,...
Prom 46: 24th August 2001
The question as to whether Günter Wand would appear at this year’s Proms has been an unofficial theme running through the season so far. With his previous London appearance almost...
Prom 45: 23rd August 2001 – Late Night Slatkin
Continuing this year’s Proms’ crusade for American music, Leonard Slatkin took us on a stroll around Harlem in the company of Duke Ellington before whisking us off to Gershwin’s Hollywood...
Prom 44: 23rd August – Of things sacred and royal
In what was probably the hottest day so far at the Royal Albert Hall, this concert was never going to add up to more than the sum of its parts....
Prom 43: 22nd August 2001
What do you think of when regarding an Eastern European orchestra? Passion, commitment, rawness and rhythmic energy; drama rather than smoothness, a certain grainy quality of string tone and brashness...
Prom 42: 21st August 2001
A great agenda of pieces, one offering thoughtful contrasts and links. All the music was composed between, or gestated from (Copland), 1932 and 1945; all of it was premiered in...