BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Prom Chamber Music 2: 30th July 2001 – A British Baritone in Clover
The second Chamber Music Prom this year was devoted almost in its entirety to the English pastoral movement, typified by early 20th-century songsmiths Vaughan Williams and Butterworth, and slightly later...
Prom 12: 29th July 2001 – KNOTGRASS ELEGY
Having being blown away (again!) by the inventiveness of Britten’s Spring Symphony the night before (Prom 11), it would hardly be fair to expect a similar reaction to a brand...
Prom 11: 28th July 2001 – Spring Symphony
This year’s ’Pastoral’ theme was to the fore in this Prom, focusing in particular on the spring season. Debussy’s evocation was composed in 1887 during the time when he was...
Prom 10: 28th July 2001 – BLUE PETER “Town and Country”
One of the successful ways in which Nick Kenyon has tied in BBC-TV to the Proms is to create new collaborations around established TV programmes. This Friday’s ’The Later Prom’...
Prom 9: 27th July 2001- A RUBBRA SYMPHONY
Of those British composers whose centenaries will be marked over the next two years, Edmund Rubbra has the most distinctive personality and depth of vision, his powerful yet unassertive integrity...
Prom 8: 26th July 2001 – MACMILLAN PREMIERE
A half-empty Royal Albert Hall would be a full house in most concert venues - but given a programme that looked exciting on paper, the low turnout was hard to...
Prom 7: 25th July 2001 Late Night Tallis
One certainly can’t, on paper at least, fault The Proms for their ambitiousness and diversity. Following the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s appearance with Leonard Slatkin playing Christopher Rouse and Mahler as...
Prom 6: 25 July 2001: Rouse Seeing
Christopher Rouse has built a reputation over the last decade for orchestral works of depth and impact. Concertos have formed a central part of his recent output, though his approach...
Prom 5: 24th July 2001
Kremerata can be relied upon for discipline and artistry; Kremer himself for the unstinting commitment and daredevil virtuosity he brings to the vast repertoire he plays.The Schnittke began in a...
Prom 4: 23rd July 2001
The representation of the mechanical was a predominant feature of this Prom with three-quarters of Schubert ’in a groove’ and the faster sections of Oberon’s Overture emphatic rather than exhilarating....
Prom Chamber Music 1: 23rd July 2001
That a pastoral theme is integral to this year’s Proms was certainly reflected in the first of the eight Monday lunchtime recitals in the magnificent setting of the V &...
Prom 3: 22nd July 2001- VERDI NIGHT
This BBC Proms tribute to Verdi, in the centenary year of his death, played to a packed house. This was an imaginative programme of excerpts from this most popular of...
Prom 2: 21st July 2001 – HANDEL’S THIRD WAY
Whatever the claims of the First Night (Paul Bunyan inspired by a legend of wide-open America, Elgar affected by the Malvern hills in his Cello Concerto and John Adams’s comment...
Prom 1: 20th July 2001 (The First Night)
These days it seems that every music festival must have at least one, preferably several, themes - none more than the Proms under Nicholas Kenyon’s directorship. In earlier Proms’ regimes...
Leonard Slatkin introduces the 2001 Proms season
This year marks a very special time for me. I will lead six Prom concerts including the first and last nights. For all of these occasions we have planned some...