BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

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As part of the Leonard Bernstein centenary, this Prom replicated the programme he brought here on 10 September 1987 with the Vienna Philharmonic. Taking responsibility for this tribute might have...
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Rare, though not unheard of, are morning Proms – and this one was full – not only seats, but also a healthier-than-most in the Arena. There were Fireworks to start,...
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The LSO has been a ‘natural’ for Ravel since the veteran Pierre Monteux made the ensemble feel like an international orchestra. Taking up the post of principal conductor in his...
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The BBC’s website promised us a “concerto … framed by two works suffused with sunny optimism.” True, Prokofiev’s Fifth – unlike Shostakovich’s – is still habitually described in terms of...
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Making its fourth appearance at these concerts, the National Youth Jazz Orchestra proceeded to set the Royal Albert Hall ablaze with a high-octane programme of music either unfamiliar or given...
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It scarcely seems credible that Orchestre de la Suisse Romande should only be making its Proms (but not its London) debut in the year of its centenary; its first appearance...
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2018 marks the death, one-hundred years ago, not only of Debussy but also his younger compatriot Lili Boulanger, whose untimely passing (at the age of twenty-four) figures as a tantalising...
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Brahms’s Violin Concerto was originally billed for the first half of this Prom, but for unclear reasons the crowd-pleaser by Tchaikovsky was substituted (also at Snape the evening before) –...
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Yet another summertime scratch band but a very good one. Since 2011 the always-peripatetic Paavo Järvi has touched base at the Pärnu Festival, overseeing its evolution into a kind of...
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Two world premieres for unusual combined forces, percussion and string quartet. Simon Holt’s Quadriga is in some ways the more-conventional of the pair, but indubitably persuasive – not least the...
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Another Prom in the seasonal strand vaguely associated with the First World War began with Lili Boulanger’s prescient pre-War evocation of a funeral ceremony. Whether Boulanger’s neglect owes most to...
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After the warring Jets and Sharks running about the Royal Albert Hall stage twice the previous day in West Side Story, normal order was restored for this matinee with a...
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First mooted as a seventy-six-minute concert version involving the LSO with singers to be announced, this Proms rendition of a complete-ish West Side Story lasted nearly two hours, including a...
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By now a regular at the BBC Proms, bringing his supremely polished band with music from the shows of yesteryear, the first of John Wilson’s 2018 concerts is Leonard Bernstein’s...
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No need this time to strain to connect “BBC Proms 2018 – part of BBC Music” with that other dubious presentational construct, “Leonard Bernstein at 100”. Antonio Pappano’s programme consisted...