BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

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The BBC Proms at Sage Gateshead delivered an unforgettable opening concert, showcasing a diverse and captivating line-up that left the audience in awe. An electrifying opening act - the indie...
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The 200th anniversary of Edouard Lalo ‘s birth was celebrated at the Proms last night with a performance of his most famous work. Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole may have become a comparative...
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“I consider myself a musician.” Pekka Kuusisto can be guaranteed to bring a different air to anything he offers, be it playing or conducting, encore or legend. One can never...
Prom 2 photo credit Andy Paradise 19
The Northern Soul Prom, curated by writer and broadcaster Stuart Maconie, was a soulful extravaganza that brought together an extraordinary lineup of performers, each delivering a heartfelt and soul-stirring tribute...
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Dalia Stasevska directed this interestingly programmed first night of the 2023 promenade concert season. She certainly deserved the opportunity - she was obliged to conduct the 2020 last night to...
Prom 69 Cr. Chris Christodoulou 10
This performance of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis was originally part of the season’s last-week line-up of serious music-making with visiting orchestras before the Last Night of the Proms’ fun and games....
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The Royal Scottish National Orchestra filled the stage for an evening of précis suites from three big stage-works clustering round the magnum opus of the Violin Concerto by Wynton Marsalis,...
Prom 59 Cr. Chris Christodoulou 24
On paper, the text of Elgar's Gerontius, extracted from John Henry Newman's eponymous poem, promises little by way of drama or narrative – not much more, perhaps, than a poetic evocation...
Prom 52 Cr. Chris Christodoulou 5
The arrival of effective but noisier air-conditioning allied to the ongoing decline in the behaviour of attendees has made Prom-going even more of a lottery. This could have been short-straw...
Prom 51 Cr. Sisi Burn 12
Fabien Gabel brought together three late-nineteenth-century works written within a decade of one another, with a major-minor-major traversal either side of the interval. And how welcome it was to begin...
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Simon Rattle dedicated this Prom to the memory of the late Harrison Birtwistle, and so appropriately began in homage to him by returning the compliment of the gift which the...
Prom 43 Cr. Chris Christodoulou 27
Solomon was not one of Handel’s greatest hits when it was first heard in 1748, but it has been served well enough by the Proms, the most recent being the 1998...
Prom 42 Cr. Chris Christodoulou 16
This Prom came at the end of Thomas Dausgaard’s six years as Chief Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with Symphonies by fellow Nordics Sibelius and Nielsen giving a...
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In a nice little irony for this programme featuring a new work called Time Flies, the sequence of pieces here was presented in reverse chronological order of composition. That opening item...
Prom35 Cr. Chris Christodoulou 23
For his first Proms appearance, at the helm of the Oslo Philharmonic, Klaus Mäkelä prefaced two great feats or depictions of musical heroism with his fellow countryman Sibelius’s final tone...