BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Prom 55 Cr. Chris Christodoulou 20
Come dancing might well have been the watchword of this second Prom given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under their Music Director, Andris Nelsons. I came away feeling much more...
Prom 52 Cr. Chris Christodoulou 7
When orchestras go on their travels, the programmes they bring with them from distant shores are often a reflection of what they have been recently playing or recording, or what...
PROM 51 Cr. Andy Paradise 1
Outside the Royal Albert Hall the leaves may have already been on the turn, but inside there was a vernal glow to a spring-themed programme that marked the third collaboration...
Prom 50 Cr. Sisi Burn 13
The Academy of Ancient Music was swelled in number for Handel's oratorio Samson (premiered 1743) to fill out the stage of the Royal Albert Hall and its vast space with music, but...
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This was the first complete outing for Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri (1843) at the Proms (previously only one aria from it was performed in 1909) but Sir Simon Rattle has...
Prom 44 Cr. Chris Christodoulou 16
After their exertions the previous evening in Kurtág’s Endgame the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra were in more familiar territory last night as Gemma New made her Proms debut in a...
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This was the UK premiere of Kurtág's opera which has already received widespread acclaim since its premiere at La Scala in 2018. (Denoted here as Endgame, it would probably have made...
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A 'Latin' Prom, Elgar's and Strauss's Anglicisation/Germanicisation of late Romantic Italy offsetting the bel canto aria and ornament of Chopin in Warsaw a couple of generations earlier. Seong-Jin Cho, winner of the...
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Prone to plastic beaker dropping and desultory applause, the audience seemed stricken with bronchitis for much of this concert. A shame for music-making so preoccupied with clarity and precision. The...
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Although they have been regular visitors since 1992, the Budapest Festival Orchestra and its indefatigable co-founder and conductor Iván Fischer didn’t introduce their trademark ‘Audience Choice’ concert to the Proms...
Prom 37 Mark Allan 9
It’s often a question of horses for courses. Faced with a programme of overture, concerto and symphony – one of the mainstays of concert programming until more recent times –...
Prom 36 Cr. Mark Allan 11
Music used in Kubrick’s landmark 1968 film ‘2001: A space odyssey’ being used to create a space odyssey of its own in the Royal Albert Hall in 2023? Would the...
Prom 35 Cr. Chris Christodoulou 9
Intervening illnesses are always unfortunate. In this case Sir Andrew Davis, the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Conductor Laureate, was prevented from conducting his old band, but happily their current boss, Sakari...
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With a revelatory first half containing Proms premieres by two notable female composers contrasting, or perhaps complementing, the better known ‘pop’ by Holst, the Royal Albert Hall was on the...
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Possibly in the pursuit of accessibility, the BBC thought it necessary to translate the French title, Dialogues des Carmélites, of Poulenc’s opera into Dialogues of the Carmelites, just to make...