BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Proms at … Cadogan Hall 4/Proms Chamber Music – Sarah Connolly & Joseph Middleton
Sarah Connolly can be relied upon for judicious recitals of song (British or otherwise), and so it proved in this programme of settings by (mainly) British composers that ranged freely...
Proms 29 & 30: The Brandenburg Project – Johann Sebastian Bach’s Six Brandenburg Concertos & six UK premieres, from Turnage, Hillborg, Caine, Neuwirth, Dean, and Mackey – Swedish Chamber Orchestra/Thomas Dausgaard
By the end of the evening Prom – twelve pieces and seven hours after the start of the afternoon one – there were numerous solo performers taking a collective bow...
Prom 28: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain/George Benjamin – Night on Bare Mountain, Dance Figures, Lontano, La mer – Tamara Stefanovich plays Ravel’s Left-hand Piano Concerto
Was it the stiflingly hot night? This was not the most thrilling National Youth Orchestra Prom in living memory although it is always inspiring to see 160-plus young musicians at...
Proms at … Lincoln Drill Hall: Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale
The marking of the centenary of the end of the First World War has, in this year’s Prom season, not been lost. A very British viewpoint from an international festival...
Prom 27: Folk Music around Britain and Ireland
It’s ten years since the BBC Proms Folk Day (20 July 2008) and I was looking forward to a new generation of folkies to take to the Royal Albert Hall...
Prom 26: Serpent and Fire – Anna Prohaska/Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini
Having collaborated on a recording profiling two of the most prominent, if semi-mythological, queens of the ancient world, Anna Prohaska and Il Giardino Armonico took a similar programme of extracts...
Prom 25: BBC Symphony Orchestra/Alexander Vedernikov – Summer Night in Madrid & The Nutcracker – Miloš Karadaglić gives premiere of Joby Talbot’s Ink Dark Moon
Although bookended by Russian composers, this Prom first took us to Spain. Glinka may have been the progenitor of an authentic style of Russian music and a model for successors,...
Prom 24: BBCNOW/Otto Tausk – The Wreckers & Ein Heldenleben – Daniel Müller-Schott plays Dvořák
Dutchman Otto Tausk led the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in three works of high Romanticism that were written within ten years of each other. The evocative Prelude to Act...
Prom 23: Havana Meets Kingston – Mista Savona
Havana met Kingston with swagger and style in this late-night Prom exploring the fusion of Cuban and Jamaican musical traditions; the introductory piece captured the deep spiritual element of both:...
Prom 22: BBC Scottish SO/Andrew Manze – London Symphonies by Haydn & Vaughan Williams
It is tempting to remember the good old bad old days in which this concert would have lasted a great deal longer. Time enough to accommodate John Ireland’s A London...
Prom 21: BBC Scottish SO/Ilan Volkov – Notturno & Alpine Symphony – Hornroh Modern Alphorn Quartet gives UK premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas’s Concerto grosso No.1
For this Prom, the huge open spaces of ‘The Barn’ in South Kensington were deliberately exploited in order to take us into the metaphorical outdoors or, to be more exact,...
Proms at … Cadogan Hall 3/Proms Chamber Music – Joseph Tawadros – Rituals and New Tales
Joseph Tawadros’s encore summed up as well as anything the multitude of influences which sometimes blend, often collide, in his music. Entitled Bluegrass Nikriz, it was written after a collaboration...
Prom 20: Ten Pieces Prom – II
The Ten Pieces music education project has to be one of the BBC’s greatest successes. The aim is to get young people not just listening to classical music but responding...
Prom 19: Ten Pieces Prom – I
BBC Learning’s Ten Pieces initiative is in its fourth year, opening up classical music to children all over the UK by encouraging them to make music at school. This Prom...
Prom 18: MusicAeterna/Teodor Currentzis – Beethoven 2 & 5
Founded fourteen years ago by Teodor Currentzis, MusicaAeterna is a skilled period-instrument orchestra; the string strength is about a dozen fewer than with the standard symphony orchestra. The players respond...
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