BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

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Prom 50: Orchestre de Paris – Daniel Harding conducts Genoveva Overture, Babylon Suite, and Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony
What more appropriate way to end a hot, windless Bank Holiday Monday, begun with breakfast in Vienna, off the U-Bahn 4 from Heiligenstadt, than a London Prom and Beethoven's 'Pastoral'...
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Proms at … Cadogan Hall/Proms Chamber Music 6: Amatis Piano Trio plays Robert & Clara Schumann
Continuing its 800-year musical survey with an eye to redressing the gender balance by introducing female composers to the Proms roster, this sixth PCM hadn’t moved much in time and...
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Prom 49: The Lost Words
This season – marking the 150th-anniversary of the birth of the founder of the Proms – has celebrated Sir Henry Wood with a series of Novelties (pieces he introduced to...
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Prom 48: BBC Symphony Orchestra – Cristian Măcelaru conducts Silvestri & Rachmaninov – Seong-Jin Cho plays Prokofiev
The chance to see Cristian Măcelaru make his Proms debut was probably less of a draw than the return visit of Seong-Jin Cho but the place was packed, heatwave notwithstanding....
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Prom 47: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra – Andris Nelsons conducts Bruckner 8 | Michael Schönheit plays J. S. Bach on the Royal Albert Hall organ
The last time Bruckner’s Eighth was played at the Proms (in 2013, Vienna Philharmonic and Lorin Maazel), it was prefaced by a short recital of J. S. Bach organ music....
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Prom 46: CBSO – Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducts Lamia, The Way to Castle Yonder, and Weinberg’s Symphony 3 – Sheku Kanneh-Mason plays Elgar’s Cello Concerto
There can be few now alive who recall the profile enjoyed by Lamia during the inter-war period. Completed in 1918, this symphonic poem after Keats's fanciful verse of that name...
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Prom 45: Mississippi Goddam: A Homage to Nina Simone
Proms with the Metropole Orkest and Jules Buckley have become almost as much an annual event as those by John Wilson, though here the emphasis is less on getting back...
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Prom 44: LSO – Simon Rattle conducts Les bandar-log, Amèriques, and Belshazzar’s Feast
Simon Rattle has often used his Proms appearances to schedule works of notable dimensions (hence Gurrelieder in 2017), and this concert was no exception in featuring three pieces which ideally...
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Prom 43: BBC Symphony Chorus & Orchestra – Sakari Oramo conducts Beethoven’s Choral Symphony, Andreas Haefliger premieres Dieter Ammann’s Piano Concerto, and Neil Ferris leads the first performance of Jonathan Dove’s We Are One Fire
While the Ninth might seem like a Proms fixture, foreshortened renditions shorn of Beethoven’s choral Finale were the order of the day until the creation of the National Chorus, precursor...
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Proms at … Cadogan Hall/Proms Chamber Music 5: Louise Alder & Gary Matthewman
Songs in four languages from the nineteenth-century and, Schubert apart, by composers generally better known for other musical genres.Louise Alder has an extraordinarily relaxed and attuned relationship with Gary Matthewman,...
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Prom 42: Ulster Orchestra – Rafael Payare conducts the First Symphonies of Beethoven & Shostakovich and Gubaidulina’s Fairytale Poem – Mariam Batsashvili plays Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto
Reviewed from live BBC Radio 3 broadcast... This appealingly designed Prom, “Youthful Beginnings”, showcased the familiar and the audacious, secure roots and tentative blossoms. Beethoven's First Symphony, premiered in 1800,...
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Prom 41: London Philharmonic Orchestra – Vladimir Jurowski conducts Rimsky-Korsakov, Liadov & Glazunov – Alexander Ghindin plays Rachmaninov
Perhaps only at the Proms could this curiously low-key programme attract a near-capacity crowd. Audience members were reasonably attentive too, even if the erratic occurrence of inter-movement applause belied the...
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Proms at … Holy Sepulchre London – BBC Singers/Sofi Jeannin
Beginning and ending in the side chapel dedicated to Sir Henry Wood, where his ashes are interred, this Proms at … Holy Sepulchre London concert commemorated the founder-conductor of the...
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Prom 40: Queen Victoria’s 200th-Anniversary – Ádám Fischer conducts the OAE in Sullivan and the Scottish Symphony – Stephen Hough plays Mendelssohn | Alessandro Fisher sings songs by Prince Albert
This Prom provided an ideal celebration for the bicentenary of Queen Victoria’s birth. A remarkable enhancement to Stephen Hough’s performance of Mendelssohn’s First Piano Concerto was the use of Victoria’s...
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Prom 39: BBC National Orchestra of Wales – Elim Chan conducts The Hebrides & Pictures at an Exhibition – Catriona Morison sings Elgar’s Sea Pictures & Errollyn Wallen’s This Frame Is Part of the Painting
Two recent prize-winners at the Proms. Catriona Morison was winner of Cardiff Singer of the World 2017 whilst Elim Chan won the Donatella Flick Conducting Prize in 2014. Chan made...