BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

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Not for the first time the Vienna Philharmonic is giving two consecutive Proms under guest conductors neither of whom enjoys quite the legendary reputation of the ensemble itself. That said,...
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When Sara Mohr-Pietsch tells you that you may walk around so as to “curate your own listening experience”, it’s a sure sign that you’re in the rarefied air of arty...
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This London Philharmonic Prom opened with the lost-and-found Funeral Song (see link below), written in 1908 by Stravinsky to honour the deceased Rimsky-Korsakov. It had a performance in January 1909,...
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Nestled between a sequence of five concerts from overseas orchestras and a run up to the Last Night of the Proms, two evenings from the Vienna Philharmonic and András Schiff’s...
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The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, currently embarked on another of its whirlwind tours of Europe’s top music festivals, returned to the Proms for its twelfth visit with a very special guest...
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So sensitive was this interpretation that it would be unfair to suggest that it was understated but the gentle, often poignant refinement of Schubert’s beautiful melodies was sometimes made at...
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On paper this Prom seemed designed to explore aspects of Communist Russia’s musical legacy, its big components being conceived in the menacing context of Stalin’s Great Terror. In the event...
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To open this lunchtime Prom, here was Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture interpreted in a way I had not heard before and it reflected a very personal view of the music which...
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This second of two Proms by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra was very much “a game of two halves.” All the more surprising from these distinguished players who, conducted by Danielle...
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Marking the thirtieth anniversary of the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, the Proms included Wilton’s Music Hall for the first time. Not quite bedlam (the original Bedlam, St Mary’s of Bethlehem...
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Fifty years (and five months) since the epochal tour of artists associated with Memphis-based Stax Records ended in London seems as good a reason as any to devote a Prom...
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It might have been a truncated version of a concert previously given in Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw (and to come in Berlin, Weber's Euryanthe Overture common to both) but this programme suited...
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With the Taneyev and the Tchaikovsky Semyon Bychkov was revisiting the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s “Beloved Friend” project from last season (reviews below). The music of Sergei Taneyev is more often...
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While not the youngest debutant at this year’s Proms (the Multi-Story Youth Choir is that, both in age since foundation and, genuinely, in its members’ young years), Chineke! – Britain’s...
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Whether it’s the BBC Symphony Orchestra or the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Sakari Oramo is the main man. It was the latter ensemble for the third of Oramo’s four Proms this...