BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

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Prom 7: Late Night Italian with Jakub Józef Orliński
Multi-skilled, golden-voiced counter-tenor Jakub Józef Orliński joins regular collaborators Il Pomo d’Oro for a journey through the music of the early Baroque, which he believes is ‘beyond its times ......
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Prom 5: Ryan Bancroft conducts the BBCNOW – Schoenberg and Zemlinsky
After all the Proms opening razzmatazz, the Albert Hall had many empty seats for this exceptional concert from the BBCNOW and their Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft, the sort of event...
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Prom 4: Sir Mark Elder conducts Mahler’s Fifth
The entire Hallé family visits from Manchester to make history at the Proms, as Sir Mark Elder comes to the end of his last season as Music Director after a...
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Prom 3: The King’s Singers and VOCES8
When it comes to ensemble singing, two British groups have rewritten the rule book. United on stage for the first time, The King’s Singers and VOCES8 present a Prom that...
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Prom 2: Everybody Dance! The Sound of Disco
Sound, style and fashion met in the disco movement, and in late 1970s New York there was only one place to experience it: Studio 54. Many of the disco hits...
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First Night of the Proms 2024
The opening night of the 2024 BBC Proms delivered a dynamic blend of tradition and innovation, under the energetic direction of Elim Chan, making her much-anticipated Proms debut. The evening...
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Prom 70: The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – Honeggar, Rachmaninov, Ortiz and Bernstein
Those wanting an adrenalin fix had no reason to look any further than this penultimate Prom that seemed to encompass ‘something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue’.  Arthur...
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Prom 66: Rufus Wainwright
Few festivals can compete with the range of music presented at the Proms since founder-conductor Henry Wood took up the reins in 1895.  At the season’s original Queen’s Hall venue,...
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Prom 65: BBCSO/Bychkov – Bruckner 8
Coming on the composer's 199th-birthday (what bliss 2024 will surely be for Brucknerians) the Eighth had this Prom all to itself. Accordingly, Semyon Bychkov gave an unhurried survey of it...
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Prom 64: Berlioz’s Les Troyens
Having performed two other of Berlioz's epic stage-works at the Proms in recent years with its founder Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique now turned to the...
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Prom 62: The Rite by Heart
From the primeval darkness an eerie, reedy sound grows and oscillates. The lights gradually reveal a white-floored Royal Albert Hall stage littered with some white boxes, on one of which...
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Prom 61: Chineke! Orchestra/Anthony Parnther perform Valerie Coleman, Coleridge-Taylor, Haydn, Coleridge Perkinson and Beethoven
At least three proms’ premieres (though one was curiously not indicated as such in the programme) and two cornerstone pieces of the classical repertoire staples: there was so much to...
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Prom 60: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Berlin has so many ensembles that the identity of this one was not immediately apparent (to me at least). The Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin is in fact the contemporary manifestation of the...
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Prom 59: Paavo Järvi, Augustin Hadelich & Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich – Beethoven, Tchaikovsky & Dvořák
Welcome 'old-fashioned' programming – overture, concerto, symphony. Super-league conductor. A-class Central-European orchestra. Poet-virtuoso soloist. Sell-out house, five-thousand plus, cheering, roaring and stamping. To open, Beethoven's Handelian late concert overture The...
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Prom 56: LSO/Rattle Mahler 9
Not the first concert to be marketed as Sir Simon’s farewell to the LSO (nor, one suspects, quite the last) but a memorable occasion all the same, given before a...