BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

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The Philharmonia Orchestra’s Prom opened with Webern, world-in-a-grain-of-sand music that looked back over the composer’s shoulder, as though wondering how it was ever possible that he and Mahler were in...
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The Royal Albert Hall was bedecked with a welcoming butterfly motif and psychedelic traffic lights in waves of peppermint-green and purple: a nod to the vibrant innovation of the New...
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The so-called special relationship between the UK and the USA was much in evidence in this Prom, with English music that could well have been American, English music that was...
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Thea Musgrave turned ninety on May 27, and she looked on very good form when she took a bow for Phoenix Rising (premiered in 1998 by the BBCSO and Andrew...
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We should no longer wonder at Aurora and its feats of musical remembrance. Since 2014, with Nicholas Collon, the orchestra has performed a succession of Mozart and Beethoven Symphonies at...
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As American showcases go – Osmo Vänskä, married to the concertmaster of the Minnesota Orchestra, Erin Keefe, is a committed Minneapolis stalwart, and Israeli-born, London-trained Inon Barnatan is based in...
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Sarah Connolly can be relied upon for judicious recitals of song (British or otherwise), and so it proved in this programme of settings by (mainly) British composers that ranged freely...
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By the end of the evening Prom – twelve pieces and seven hours after the start of the afternoon one – there were numerous solo performers taking a collective bow...
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Was it the stiflingly hot night? This was not the most thrilling National Youth Orchestra Prom in living memory although it is always inspiring to see 160-plus young musicians at...
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The marking of the centenary of the end of the First World War has, in this year’s Prom season, not been lost. A very British viewpoint from an international festival...
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It’s ten years since the BBC Proms Folk Day (20 July 2008) and I was looking forward to a new generation of folkies to take to the Royal Albert Hall...
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Having collaborated on a recording profiling two of the most prominent, if semi-mythological, queens of the ancient world, Anna Prohaska and Il Giardino Armonico took a similar programme of extracts...
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Although bookended by Russian composers, this Prom first took us to Spain. Glinka may have been the progenitor of an authentic style of Russian music and a model for successors,...
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Dutchman Otto Tausk led the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in three works of high Romanticism that were written within ten years of each other. The evocative Prelude to Act...
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Havana met Kingston with swagger and style in this late-night Prom exploring the fusion of Cuban and Jamaican musical traditions; the introductory piece captured the deep spiritual element of both:...