BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Prom 16: Hamlet, From the Cradle to the Grave, Pictures at an Exhibition – Steven Osborne premieres Julian Anderson’s The Imaginary Museum – BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov
This Prom was notable, above all, for the first performance (nineteen years since he first had a work premiered at these concerts) of Julian Anderson’s The Imaginary Museum (2017). Subtitled...
Prom 15: The Songs of Scott Walker (1967-70) – Jarvis Cocker, John Grant, Richard Hawley, Susanne Sundfør, Jules Buckley
Scott Walker has earned the rare reputation as a pioneering force as a singer and songwriter, with his works interpreted and cited as an influence by illustrious artists such as...
Prom 14: Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Ninth Symphony & Gustav Holst’s The Planets – BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Wilson
The Royal Albert Hall knows him best as the man who extended the concept of authentic period performance to the work of the great twentieth-century songwriters and their arrangers but,...
Prom 13: Malcolm Sargent’s 500th Prom conducted by Andrew Davis – …Cockaigne, Façade, The Perfect Fool, First Cuckoo in Spring… – Beatrice Rana plays Schumann’s Piano Concerto
“Just look at all those white-haired balding Prommers, Bob – thirty or forty years ago, their hair was so much darker – in thirty years’ time, there won’t be any...
Proms at … Cadogan Hall, PCM2 – Van Kuijk Quartet & Annelien Van Wauwe – Webern, Durupt, Mozart
If the Van Kuijk Quartet saved the crowd-pleasers until later – when joined by Annelien Van Wauwe – in many ways the more interesting performances were at the beginning. Anton...
Prom 12: Ten Pieces Presents … Sir Henry’s Magnificent Musical Inspirations! [second concert]
There was a distinct Doctor Who feel to this Ten Pieces Prom. A time traveller was summoned to the Royal Albert Hall pursued by a malevolent cosmic leader in female...
Prom 11: Ten Pieces Presents … Sir Henry’s Magnificent Musical Inspirations! [first concert]
The Ten Pieces project has now reached over four-million young people since 2010 with the aim of getting them to produce creative responses to classical music. The latest outing at...
Prom 10: Aurora Orchestra/Nicholas Collon – Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen & Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony
Four years running Nicholas Collon and Aurora Orchestra have astounded Proms audiences with an audacious feat of memory – Mozart and Beethoven Symphonies: now the ‘Eroica’, and in between they...
Proms at … Stage@TheDock, Hull – Water Music with Royal Northern Sinfonia & Nicholas McGegan [first sailing]
A city decked with rainbow flags and banners, locals and visitors – including an unusual number of “morris sides” – sang and played music in a carnival atmosphere for the...
Prom 9: Beethoven’s Fidelio – Ricarda Merbeth & Stuart Skelton – BBC Philharmonic/Juanjo Mena
After recent productions in which direction has run amok, a concert performance of Beethoven’s Fidelio was an enticing prospect, but initially this Prom, led by the BBC Philharmonic and its...
Prom 8: Celebrating John Williams – Jaws, Superman, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, The Witches of Eastwick, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – BBC Concert Orchestra/Keith Lockhart
John Williams may have won five Academy Awards, twenty-two Grammys and seven BAFTAs but his greatest achievement is that he kept the art of orchestral film-music alive when it was...
Prom 7: BBC Symphony Orchestra/Joshua Weilerstein – Les élémens & Symphonie fantastique – Alisa Weilerstein gives UK premiere of Pascal Dusapin’s Outscape
A French Prom, with music covering three centuries: from Jean-Féry Rebel’s 1737 ballet to Pascal Dusapin’s new work for cello and orchestra, composed for Alisa Weilerstein, and first-performed just over...
Prom 6: BBCNOW/Thomas Søndergård – October & Sibelius 2 – Nicola Benedetti plays Shostakovich
This team’s second helping of Sibelius and Shostakovich at this year’s Proms included a real rarity in the form of the latter’s symphonic poem, October (1967). It is an occasional...
Prom 5: BBCNOW/Thomas Søndergård – Sibelius 7 & Shostakovich 10 – Behzod Abduraimov plays Rachmaninov
In the first of two successive Proms appearances, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales showed its polish to advantage under Thomas Søndergård. Their ease with Sibelius’s Seventh Symphony was abundantly...
Proms at … Cadogan Hall, PCM1 – I Fagiolini/Robert Hollingworth – Claudio Monteverdi & Roderick Williams
Robert Hollingworth and I Fagiolini celebrated Monteverdi’s 450th-anniversary and their twenty-first in typically effervescent style. Three five-part Madrigals opened, written between 1603 and 1605 during the composer’s time at the...
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