BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

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It is tempting to remember the good old bad old days in which this concert would have lasted a great deal longer. Time enough to accommodate John Ireland’s A London...
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For this Prom, the huge open spaces of ‘The Barn’ in South Kensington were deliberately exploited in order to take us into the metaphorical outdoors or, to be more exact,...
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Joseph Tawadros’s encore summed up as well as anything the multitude of influences which sometimes blend, often collide, in his music. Entitled Bluegrass Nikriz, it was written after a collaboration...
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The Ten Pieces music education project has to be one of the BBC’s greatest successes. The aim is to get young people not just listening to classical music but responding...
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BBC Learning’s Ten Pieces initiative is in its fourth year, opening up classical music to children all over the UK by encouraging them to make music at school. This Prom...
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Founded fourteen years ago by Teodor Currentzis, MusicaAeterna is a skilled period-instrument orchestra; the string strength is about a dozen fewer than with the standard symphony orchestra. The players respond...
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The heat-wave broke in London with impeccable timing, an hour or two before the start of this Prom, rain clearing the air for this programme of English music. The centenaries...
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After last year’s lecture concert, ending in a performance of Dvořák’s ‘New World’ Symphony, it was good to welcome the Hallé and Mark Elder back for a full-evening programme –...
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Tansy Davies's opera about 9/11, Between Worlds, was premiered by ENO in 2015, to a mixed reception. What Did We See? is a twenty-four-minute four-movement Suite drawn from that score,...
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“To see a World in a Grain of Sand” (William Blake) might have been one way of summing up the components of this programme: its overview of the Romantic movement...
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The London Contemporary Orchestra has certainly established a secure basis in the capital's fixtures over its first decade of existence, and this late-night Prom of music by five pioneering female...
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Karina Canellakis has rapidly come to prominence among younger conductors and, on the basis of this Prom, it is not hard to hear why. Beethoven's Coriolan (1807, for Collin’s play)...
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The enthusiasm of Eve Risser for the harpsichord – “the most fun instrument to write for” – is perhaps not surprising: for all its associations with Baroque music, the plucked...
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Separately if not together, Sir Henry Wood and the Royal Albert Hall have played significant roles in the UK performance history of Mahler’s ‘Symphony of a Thousand’, the Proms as...
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Reviewed from live BBC Radio 3 broadcast... The heart doesn’t quite sink at the prospect of Widor’s ‘Toccata’ yet again – it’s not a bad piece despite its over-exposure, but...