BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

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Sakari Oramo conducts Foulds, Walton with violist Timothy Ridout, Charlotte Bray and Arnold
From the rumbustious opening bars of John Foulds’s Overture Le cabaret (for a play about 19th-century French mime artist Jean-Gaspard Deburau) to the heart-breaking fading denouement of Sir Malcolm Arnold’s...
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Ilan Volkov conducts George Lewis and Beethoven with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
A concert of two halves, separated by 200 years, opened with the world premiere of the longest BBC commission of this Proms season, reuniting Chicago-born composer George Lewis with Ilan...
Chineke Prom CR.Mark Allan 23
Chineke! – Proms debuts from Jeneba Kanneh-Mason & Kalena Bovell
Promoted from its 2017 late-night Proms debut and two 2019 CBeebies matinees, Chineke! here gave its first full-evening Prom, which also featured two impressive Proms debuts: pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason (she...
Sean Shibe
The Sound of Argentina – Guitar music by Astor Piazzolla & Ariel Ramírez performed by Sean Shibe with Wallis Giunta & Adam Walker
Sean Shibe, together with two rather special friends, presented a typically enterprising programme of Argentinian chamber music to a well-filled Cadogan Hall on Monday lunchtime. It was his Proms debut,...
Moses Sumney Prom CR.Mark Allan 24
Moses Sumney meets Jules Buckley and the BBC Symphony Orchestra
Red light. High pitch violins. Stage-left, Moses Sumney in a veil. Reprising Michael Jackson’s 2006 abaya look or trolling the Taliban? Or toying with masculine identity? Moses picked up the...
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Mystery Prom 1: Rameau; Chevalier de Saint Georges; Mozart – Britten Sinfonia, National Youth Chamber Choir & David Bates
Well, one thing has been proved: the idea of a Mystery Prom works.  The first of four – the programmes for which were only announced on the day the Proms...
Nubya Garcia Prom CR.Mark Allan 5
Nubya Garcia’s Proms debut
This was the Proms debut of London's own jazz saxophonist Nubya Garcia, and another step in the extraordinary progress of the female jazz performer. A nod to her vocal predecessor Sade,...
A Night at the Opera BBC Philharmonic BBC CR.Chris Christodoulou 21
A Night at the Opera to Soothe the Aching Heart with BBC Philharmonic conducted by Ben Glassberg
This was the sort of comfort-zone Prom you might expect to grace a weekend evening – a catch-all title to reflect the joys and woes of the past year and...
Philharmonia Paavo Jarvi CR.Mark Allan 10
Víkingur Ólafsson’s Proms debut, with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Paavo Järvi – Prokofiev, J.S. Bach, Mozart & Shostakovich
By recent Covid standards, this was a sell-out – Rausing Circle (rousingly) packed to the rafters, and similarly all four quadrants of the choir stalls.  The Arena seemed to have...
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BBCSO|Martyn Brabbins & Sarah Connolly – Anthony Payne, Berlioz & Beethoven
Nature and seasons guided this BBC Symphony Orchestra Prom, opening with the first Proms performance of Anthony Payne’s Spring’s Shining Wake, composed in 1981. For now, Payne is probably remembered...
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Vladimir Jurowski’s farewell to the London Philharmonic Orchestra – Stravinsky, Walton, J. S. Bach & Hindemith
It was going to be something special: not only a classic Vladimir Jurowski programme, but his last as principal conductor of the London Philharmonic.  Add in the spotlight of the...
BBC Philharmonic John Storgards CR.Chris Christodoulou 6
BBC Philharmonic|John Storgårds – Britta Byström’s Parallel Universes & Schumann’s Rhenish Symphony – Liza Ferschtman plays Sibelius’s Violin Concerto
In the weird and wonderful parallel universe of the Proms archive, it is extraordinary to discover that there have been more performances of Schumann’s Rhenish Symphony in the first quarter...
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National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain with Nicola Benedetti & Jonathon Hayward – Laura Jurd’s Chant; Jessie Montgomery’s Banner; Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony; Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto
The miracle of the National Youth Orchestra returned to its rightful annual place at the Proms, after the hiatus of last year (perhaps not as long-standing a tradition at the...
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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra|Martyn Brabbins – Pergolesi’s Stabat mater; Stravinsky’s Pulcinella
The BBC Proms in 2021 have deviated quite a bit from the earlier published Proms Guide due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Tonight is no exception, as Martyn Brabbins stepped in,...
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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra|Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla – Symphonies by Ruth Gipps, Thomas Adès and Johannes Brahms
Three Symphonies in this programme, separated in time by approximately equal periods, and very different in style and form. The first was Ruth Gipps’s single movement Symphony No. 2, receiving...