BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Prom 33 – BBC Symphony Orchestra with Christina Gansch – Semyon Bychkov conducts Detlev Glanert/Weites Land, Schubert & Glanert’s Einsamkeit, Mahler 4
Detlev Glanert, born in Hamburg in 1960, came to music late, beginning his formal studies in composition only in his twenties – working with Hans Werner Henze for four years...
Prom 32: National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America – Antonio Pappano conducts Occidentalis & Alpine Symphony – Joyce DiDonato sings Nuits d’été
An exciting morning Prom celebrating summer nights and an alpine excursion. Resplendent in its uniform – domino black jackets, crimson red pants and sneakers – the National Youth Orchestra of...
Prom 31: Philharmonia Orchestra – Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Brahms’s Haydn Variations & Bruckner’s Romantic Symphony – Lise Davidsen sings Richard Strauss
Prom 30: The Warner Brothers Story – John Wilson [second reel]
For the second time on this day, the John Wilson Orchestra together with adorning singers indefatigably led us through music composed for Warner Brothers’ movies.Scores by Erich Wolfgang Korngold bookended...
Prom 29: The Warner Brothers Story – John Wilson [matinee showing]
Whether or not it produced the finest movies of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Warner Brothers boasted an unmatchable roster of composers from which to draw at a time when lavishness, opulence...
Prom 28: BBC National Chorus & Orchestra of Wales – Tadaaki Otaka conducts Takemitsu/Twill by Twilight, Huw Watkins/The Moon, Rachmaninov/The Bells, Borodin/Polovtsian Dances
An oddly conceived and structured concert. On paper the inclusion of the Borodin looked as lame as any pre-announced encore, but the programming of Takemitsu and Rachmaninov promised something special...
Prom 27: The Sound of Space: Sci-Fi Film Music
Attending a concert of Sci-Fi film music, one has expectations: a smattering of John Williams is a certainty (E.T., Close Encounters, Star Wars) and perhaps a bit of Jerry Goldsmith...
Prom 26: BBC National Chorus & Orchestra of Wales – Nathalie Stutzmann conducts Tragic Overture, Prelude & Liebestod, and Mozart’s Requiem
This Prom brought a programme that explored love and loss. Brahms’s Tragic Overture is believed to have originated in an aborted project to stage Goethe’s Faust, with material salvaged to...
Prom 25: BBC Symphony Orchestra – Dalia Stasevska conducts Karelia Suite & Pathétique Symphony – Sol Gabetta gives London premiere of Mieczysław Weinberg’s Cello Concerto
Reflecting that “music is a place where worst enemies can sit side by side and feel the same thing”, Dalia Stasevska, the new young Ukrainian-born Finnish principal guest conductor of...
Prom 24: Relaxed Prom – Swan Lake & Paganini Rhapsody – BBC Phil/Ben Gernon with Juan Pérez Floristán
Fighting your way out of a tourist-encrusted South Kensington tube station in time for an 11.30 a.m. concert at the Royal Albert Hall was always going to be a strain,...
Prom 23: BBC Philharmonic – Ben Gernon conducts Peterloo Overture & Swan Lake – Juan Pérez Floristán plays Paganini Rhapsody
Malcolm Arnold’s Peterloo Overture was commissioned by the Trades Union Congress in 1968 to commemorate the massacre of protesting workers in Saint Peter’s Field, Manchester in 1819 (an event recently...
Proms at … Cadogan Hall/Proms Chamber Music 3: The English Concert & Kristian Bezuidenhout
Comprising music derived largely from the late-seventeenth-century this was a fascinating programme featuring works all attempting to seek popularity by adopting or emulating features of music popular at the court...
Prom 22: BBC Philharmonic – John Storgårds conducts Isle of the Dead, Midnight Sun Variations, The Year 1905
The UK’s first public performance of the 1915 version of Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony was always going to be a hard act to follow. Not that the present evening was without...
Prom 21: Olivier Latry at the Royal Albert Hall organ
Reviewed from live BBC Radio 3 broadcast... As the author of five books on rock music and musicians, including the first in-depth study of the life and work of Madonna...
Prom 20 – BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra – Sibelius – Thomas Dausgaard conducts the UK premiere of the first score of Symphony 5 | Pekka Kuusisto plays the Violin Concerto | Finnish Folk Music
Thomas Dausgaard can be relied upon for thoughtful and imaginative programme-planning, and this Prom was no exception; culminating as it did with a first UK performance for Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony...
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