BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Prom 17: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra/Roger Norrington – Béatrice et Bénédict Overture & Brahms 1 – Robert Levin plays Beethoven
First, a nod to Shakespeare with the wonderful Overture to Béatrice et Bénédict, Berlioz’s comic-opera based on Much Ado About Nothing. Roger Norrington (Principal Conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony...
Prom 16 – Dukas’s La Péri & selections from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet – Chloë Hanslip & Diego Espinosa Cruz González give premiere of Michael Berkeley’s Violin Concerto; BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Jac van Steen
For the second of its four Proms this season, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales took to dance in two ballet scores and the rhythm-fixated new Violin Concerto from Michael...
Prom 15: BBC Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Davis – Tchaikovsky’s Tempest, Anthony Payne’s Of Land, Sea and Sky, Vaughan Williams’s Toward the Unknown Region – Ray Chen plays Bruch; Composers in Conversation
Anthony Payne, who elaborated Elgar’s sketches for his Third Symphony, turns eighty on August the Second. In recognition of this milestone, the BBC has commissioned him for a fifth time,...
Prom 14: Rossini’s The Barber of Seville from Glyndebourne – Danielle de Niese, Alessandro Corbelli, Taylor Stayton, Björn Bürger; London Philharmonic Orchestra/Enrique Mazzola
Surprisingly, this was the first complete Proms performance of Rossini’s indestructible version of Beaumarchais’s comedy, possibly a reflection of the fact that Glyndebourne hasn’t mounted it for three decades.This year’s...
Proms Chamber Music 2: Twelve Cellos led by Guy Johnston, with Golda Schultz in Bachianas brasileiras No.5
A dozen cellists filled Cadogan Hall’s stage for the second Proms Chamber Music recital this season, a colourful ensemble brought together by Guy Johnston. These talented musicians created a programme...
Prom 13: London Philharmonic Orchestra/Vladimir Jurowski – Magnus Lindberg’s Two Episodes & Beethoven’s Choral Symphony
Before this premiere performance of Two Episodes, Magnus Lindberg had made it clear via publicity that he has composed a piece suitable to precede Beethoven’s ‘Choral’ Symphony. On Beethoven, “......
Prom 12: Ten Pieces II (second concert) – DJ Switch, Matilda Lloyd, Esther Yoo, Wayne Marshall; BBC Philharmonic/Alpesh Chauhan
Last year BBC Learning launched Ten Pieces, an initiative to introduce primary-school children to classical music. Over half the schools in Britain participated, many uploading their own musical projects. It...
Prom 11 – Die Walküre and A Child of Our Time – BBCNOW/Mark Wigglesworth
A great coupling, if perhaps not an obvious one. Mark Wigglesworth points out that both Wagner and Tippett “shared a common compassion for humanity”; Die Walküre and A Child of...
Prom 10: Ten Pieces II – DJ Mr Switch, Matilda Lloyd, Esther Yoo, Wayne Marshall; BBC Philharmonic/Alpesh Chauhan
Building on last year’s Ten Pieces, which engaged the UK’s primary schools, the BBC last October extended the initiative to secondary schools introducing ten additional pieces as catalysts for the...
Prom 9: Le Cercle de l’Harmonie/Jérémie Rhorer – Mozart 39 & Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony – Rosa Feola sings Mendelssohn & Mozart Concert Arias
The Concert Aria is not a musical genre that appears often nowadays and this interesting programme had the resonance of past Promenade concerts.Mendelssohn’s Infelice (to words by Metastasio) was performed...
Prom 8: Strictly Come Dancing presented and danced by Katie Derham, with Joanne Clifton, Karen Clifton, Kevin Clifton, Janette Manrara, Giovanni Pernice & Aljaž Škorjanec
Strictly Come Dancing has reached the Proms and, to assist this unique event, a bigger stage had to be organised. The presence of the familiar glitter-ball added to the sparkle,...
Prom 7: Shylock, Pulcinella, Poulenc’s Stabat Mater – BBC Symphony Orchestra/Marc Minkowski
The creative stimulus behind this Prom derived from Shakespeare, then the commedia dell’arte and finally the 13th-century penitential poem Stabat mater dolorosa. The concert brought together some of Fauré’s delightful...
Prom 6: Gospel Prom presented by Michelle Williams
The singing voice was the central feature of this the second Gospel-themed Prom. This vibrant exploration of the genre focused on one of its staple components; the choir. The event...
Prom 5: Gianandrea Noseda conducts Beethoven’s Missa solemnis
Beethoven’s Missa solemnis has clocked up a notable series of performances at the Proms, the most recent having been those conducted by John Eliot Gardiner in 2014 and Colin Davis...
Prom 4: Munich Philharmonic/Valery Gergiev – Boléro, Jesus Messiah Save Us, Der Rosenkavalier – Behzod Abduraimov plays Rachmaninov
The Munich Philharmonic has a venerable history. Founded in 1893, its conductors in recent times have included Sergiu Celibidache, James Levine, Christian Thielemann and Lorin Maazel. Valery Gergiev has now...
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