BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Prom 45: Mississippi Goddam: A Homage to Nina Simone
Proms with the Metropole Orkest and Jules Buckley have become almost as much an annual event as those by John Wilson, though here the emphasis is less on getting back...
Prom 44: LSO – Simon Rattle conducts Les bandar-log, Amèriques, and Belshazzar’s Feast
Simon Rattle has often used his Proms appearances to schedule works of notable dimensions (hence Gurrelieder in 2017), and this concert was no exception in featuring three pieces which ideally...
Prom 43: BBC Symphony Chorus & Orchestra – Sakari Oramo conducts Beethoven’s Choral Symphony, Andreas Haefliger premieres Dieter Ammann’s Piano Concerto, and Neil Ferris leads the first performance of Jonathan Dove’s We Are One Fire
While the Ninth might seem like a Proms fixture, foreshortened renditions shorn of Beethoven’s choral Finale were the order of the day until the creation of the National Chorus, precursor...
Proms at … Cadogan Hall/Proms Chamber Music 5: Louise Alder & Gary Matthewman
Songs in four languages from the nineteenth-century and, Schubert apart, by composers generally better known for other musical genres.Louise Alder has an extraordinarily relaxed and attuned relationship with Gary Matthewman,...
Prom 42: Ulster Orchestra – Rafael Payare conducts the First Symphonies of Beethoven & Shostakovich and Gubaidulina’s Fairytale Poem – Mariam Batsashvili plays Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto
Reviewed from live BBC Radio 3 broadcast... This appealingly designed Prom, “Youthful Beginnings”, showcased the familiar and the audacious, secure roots and tentative blossoms. Beethoven's First Symphony, premiered in 1800,...
Prom 41: London Philharmonic Orchestra – Vladimir Jurowski conducts Rimsky-Korsakov, Liadov & Glazunov – Alexander Ghindin plays Rachmaninov
Perhaps only at the Proms could this curiously low-key programme attract a near-capacity crowd. Audience members were reasonably attentive too, even if the erratic occurrence of inter-movement applause belied the...
Proms at … Holy Sepulchre London – BBC Singers/Sofi Jeannin
Beginning and ending in the side chapel dedicated to Sir Henry Wood, where his ashes are interred, this Proms at … Holy Sepulchre London concert commemorated the founder-conductor of the...
Prom 40: Queen Victoria’s 200th-Anniversary – Ádám Fischer conducts the OAE in Sullivan and the Scottish Symphony – Stephen Hough plays Mendelssohn | Alessandro Fisher sings songs by Prince Albert
This Prom provided an ideal celebration for the bicentenary of Queen Victoria’s birth. A remarkable enhancement to Stephen Hough’s performance of Mendelssohn’s First Piano Concerto was the use of Victoria’s...
Prom 39: BBC National Orchestra of Wales – Elim Chan conducts The Hebrides & Pictures at an Exhibition – Catriona Morison sings Elgar’s Sea Pictures & Errollyn Wallen’s This Frame Is Part of the Painting
Two recent prize-winners at the Proms. Catriona Morison was winner of Cardiff Singer of the World 2017 whilst Elim Chan won the Donatella Flick Conducting Prize in 2014. Chan made...
Prom 38: Solomon’s Knot – Johann Sebastian Bach Cantatas
Solomon’s Knot arrived at the Proms in no uncertain terms with this late-nighter of punchy Bach Cantatas. A flexible ensemble, founded in 2008 and with a modus operandi that dictates...
Prom 37: Hallé – Maxime Pascal conducts Berlioz’s Childhood of Christ
L’Enfance du Christ remains a curious work. It starts, with little preamble, with Herod’s troubled dream and the advice he seeks from the soothsayers, resulting in his edict for all...
Prom 36: Late-Night Mixtape
This Proms Mixtape compilation was a strange cache indeed – from plainsong to the sarod. To call it eclectic would be an understatement.The play button was pressed and the first...
Prom 35: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, ENO Chorus & BBC Singers – Martyn Brabbins’s 60th-birthday concert – Pictured Within: Birthday Variations for M. C. B. | Serenade to Music | Song of Destiny | Enigma Variations
Martyn Brabbins has been conducting ensembles big and small at the Proms since 1993. His first date, with the BBC Scottish SO, included the London premiere of Judith Weir’s Music,...
Prom 34: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra – Daniel Barenboim conducts Schubert & Lutosławski – Martha Argerich plays Tchaikovsky
A full house for this London leg of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra’s twentieth-anniversary tour was guaranteed even without the presence of Martha Argerich – the applause at the very start...
Proms at … Cadogan Hall/Proms Chamber Music 4: Aris Quartett plays Schubert, Sirmen & Haydn
Three works composed between the mid-eighteenth-century to the early years of the following one.It was curious to start with the piece written last. Here we had Schubert, in his early...
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