BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Anoushka Shankar Gold Panda Manu Delago conductor Jules Buckley and the Britten Sinfonia Photo BBC Mark Allan
A lugubrious tuning of a Sitar melts into Josie d’Arblay in a powder-blue power-suit gushing over the evening’s offering. Anoushka’s father Ravi Shankar who died in 2012 had an immense...
Nicola Benedetti Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Photo BBCChris Christodoulou
Following the sad news of the death of her double bass-playing father, Alina Ibragimova withdrew from this concert, necessitating a few changes to the programme and Nicola Benedetti to step...
Prom 2 September 2020 Credit BBC 3
Omer Meir Wellber should have presided over this live Prom but illness meant that he ceded the podium to John Storgårds: it was one titled BBC Philharmonic conductor for another....
Prom 01 September 2020 Credit BBC Chris Christodoulou 3
Live Prom 5 brought back to the Royal Albert Hall stage one of the Proms’ contemporary stalwarts of the last 50 years, the London Sinfonietta.  The Proms archive lists this...
Prom 30 August 2020 Credit Chris Christodoulou 3
This apparently bitty and disparate programme proved much more satisfying than the BBC’s conventionally structured opening night. There were tangible thematic connections between pieces and an imaginative attempt to exploit...
Prom 29 Aug CR.Chris Christodoulou 9
Concert organists are mostly used to playing with their backs to an audience. But unable to see a hall of keen-eared listeners and sensing their presence are two different experiences....
First Night of the Proms 8 CR.Chris Christodoulou
Is there a collective noun for sighs, I wonder? Even if such exhalations of breath are not always audible, there must have been more than just a few around Kensington...
Kate Royal
Our series exploring the Proms archives continues with a performance from 2005 marking the Manchester Camerata’s debut at the festival. Kate Royal returned for her third Proms visit to sing...
Vasily Petrenko
‘A composer’s music should express his love affairs, his religion, the books that have influenced him, the pictures he loves.’ So said Rachmaninov, whose Third Symphony does just that through...
Leonard Bernstein
Bernstein appeared only twice at the Proms. In tonight’s selection from the Proms archive, we hear the first of those appearances, from 1987. Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, with its sublime slow...
Jonathan Nott
In this concert from the Proms archives, British conductor Jonathan Nott conducted the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester in a programme framed by a pair of works famously used on the soundtrack...
Daniel Harding
In 2003 the distinguished Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen made its second visit to the Proms, with its then Music Director Daniel Harding – making his fifth Proms appearance at the age...
Ian Bostridge
Phillipe Herreweghe’s expressive but fleet-footed Bach won praise at his Proms debut in 1996. Two years later, in this highlight from the archives, he turned to one of the peaks...
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Paavo Järvi and the Orchestre de Paris continue our series of highlights from the Proms archive, beginning with Arvo Pärt’s meditative Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten. Janine Jansen is the...
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In today's chamber music concert given in Cadogan Hall in 2009, American mezzo-soprano Susan Graham performs repertoire close to her heart with pianist Malcolm Martineau: a sampler of 19th- and...