BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

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Having undertaken the First Book of the Well-Tempered Clavier at a late-night Prom last year, András Schiff completed his traversal of the ‘48’ with another extraordinary feat of concentration and...
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Light and warmth are not phenomena that spring to mind in relation to Romanticism and Modernism in music, which tend to prefer exploring the darker regions of inward and outward...
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When a Bruckner Symphony is the main work it is the modern trend to throw in a Piano Concerto – often by Mozart and hardly ever is an ‘overture’ offered.Liszt’s...
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With the BBC’s extended bank-holiday Bernstein weekend drawing to its close it was no surprise to find his one-time assistant at the helm of this well-attended Prom. You can catch...
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For the second year running the Proms hosted a Relaxed Prom. Open to all, without exception, this was a bite-size concert – Holst’s ‘Jupiter’ (The Planets) the longest piece –...
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The Proms centenary celebrations for Leonard Bernstein continued on a smaller scale with a programme from Wallis Giunta and Michael Sikich in a vertiginous race through recipes, La bonne cuisine,...
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No homage to Leonard Bernstein could ignore his proselytising zeal as an educator, and – on this centenary weekend – the Proms followed its concert performance of On the Town...
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To celebrate what would have been Leonard Bernstein’s 100th-birthday, the Proms presented the one musical revival to which John Wilson was unlikely to bring substantial revelations. The engagement of the...
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Sakari Oramo rounded off his notable contributions to this year's Proms with a satisfyingly classical coupling of a Mozart Piano Concerto and Bruckner's Fifth Symphony. Interesting that, while the Bruckner...
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The Budapest Festival Orchestra having tuned, cimbalom-virtuoso Jenö Lisztes and Iván Fischer entered – a sure sign that this would be a thoroughly Hungarian concert, a connection with Gypsy music,...
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Partially sighted after an eye operation, Iván Fischer may or may not have been constrained in his wilder movements; he was at least on reassuringly familiar ground with the present...
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And, beforehand, Prom 65, August 31, BBCSO/Semyon Bychkov, now begins at 7 p.m., Ravel, Berio, Stravinsky.BBC Proms www.bbc.co.uk/proms
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This Nordic Prom from the Bergen Philharmonic forged connections between a bracing seascape, ecstatic mystics and a Finnish symphonic journey of nationalistic fervour. If it didn’t quite gel, no matter,...
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Analogies between 1976 and 2018 extend further than the weather – the former being the year when Per Nørgård’s Third Symphony was first-performed; the latter that of its UK premiere,...
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While they have worked often in an orchestral context, Sakari Oramo had not previously directed the BBC Singers in an a cappella guise, so making the sixth of this season's...