BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

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Prom 38: Solomon’s Knot – Johann Sebastian Bach Cantatas
Solomon’s Knot arrived at the Proms in no uncertain terms with this late-nighter of punchy Bach Cantatas. A flexible ensemble, founded in 2008 and with a modus operandi that dictates...
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Prom 37: Hallé – Maxime Pascal conducts Berlioz’s Childhood of Christ
L’Enfance du Christ remains a curious work. It starts, with little preamble, with Herod’s troubled dream and the advice he seeks from the soothsayers, resulting in his edict for all...
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Prom 36: Late-Night Mixtape
This Proms Mixtape compilation was a strange cache indeed – from plainsong to the sarod. To call it eclectic would be an understatement.The play button was pressed and the first...
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Prom 35: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, ENO Chorus & BBC Singers – Martyn Brabbins’s 60th-birthday concert – Pictured Within: Birthday Variations for M. C. B. | Serenade to Music | Song of Destiny | Enigma Variations
Martyn Brabbins has been conducting ensembles big and small at the Proms since 1993. His first date, with the BBC Scottish SO, included the London premiere of Judith Weir’s Music,...
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Prom 34: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra – Daniel Barenboim conducts Schubert & Lutosławski – Martha Argerich plays Tchaikovsky
A full house for this London leg of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra’s twentieth-anniversary tour was guaranteed even without the presence of Martha Argerich – the applause at the very start...
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Proms at … Cadogan Hall/Proms Chamber Music 4: Aris Quartett plays Schubert, Sirmen & Haydn
Three works composed between the mid-eighteenth-century to the early years of the following one.It was curious to start with the piece written last. Here we had Schubert, in his early...
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Prom 33 – BBC Symphony Orchestra with Christina Gansch – Semyon Bychkov conducts Detlev Glanert/Weites Land, Schubert & Glanert’s Einsamkeit, Mahler 4
Detlev Glanert, born in Hamburg in 1960, came to music late, beginning his formal studies in composition only in his twenties – working with Hans Werner Henze for four years...
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Prom 32: National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America – Antonio Pappano conducts Occidentalis & Alpine Symphony – Joyce DiDonato sings Nuits d’été
An exciting morning Prom celebrating summer nights and an alpine excursion. Resplendent in its uniform – domino black jackets, crimson red pants and sneakers – the National Youth Orchestra of...
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Prom 31: Philharmonia Orchestra – Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Brahms’s Haydn Variations & Bruckner’s Romantic Symphony – Lise Davidsen sings Richard Strauss
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Prom 30: The Warner Brothers Story – John Wilson [second reel]
For the second time on this day, the John Wilson Orchestra together with adorning singers indefatigably led us through music composed for Warner Brothers’ movies.Scores by Erich Wolfgang Korngold bookended...
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Prom 29: The Warner Brothers Story – John Wilson [matinee showing]
Whether or not it produced the finest movies of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Warner Brothers boasted an unmatchable roster of composers from which to draw at a time when lavishness, opulence...
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Prom 28: BBC National Chorus & Orchestra of Wales – Tadaaki Otaka conducts Takemitsu/Twill by Twilight, Huw Watkins/The Moon, Rachmaninov/The Bells, Borodin/Polovtsian Dances
An oddly conceived and structured concert. On paper the inclusion of the Borodin looked as lame as any pre-announced encore, but the programming of Takemitsu and Rachmaninov promised something special...
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Prom 27: The Sound of Space: Sci-Fi Film Music
Attending a concert of Sci-Fi film music, one has expectations: a smattering of John Williams is a certainty (E.T., Close Encounters, Star Wars) and perhaps a bit of Jerry Goldsmith...
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Prom 26: BBC National Chorus & Orchestra of Wales – Nathalie Stutzmann conducts Tragic Overture, Prelude & Liebestod, and Mozart’s Requiem
This Prom brought a programme that explored love and loss. Brahms’s Tragic Overture is believed to have originated in an aborted project to stage Goethe’s Faust, with material salvaged to...
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Prom 25: BBC Symphony Orchestra – Dalia Stasevska conducts Karelia Suite & Pathétique Symphony – Sol Gabetta gives London premiere of Mieczysław Weinberg’s Cello Concerto
Reflecting that “music is a place where worst enemies can sit side by side and feel the same thing”, Dalia Stasevska, the new young Ukrainian-born Finnish principal guest conductor of...