BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

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Vasily Petrenko and the Oslo Philharmonic work well together, he cleanly efficient and technically precise, the players a well-oiled but individually characterful ensemble. As satisfyingly complete concerts go, largely without...
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Mozart’s final opera, La clemenza di Tito, does not get as many outings as it should, and Glyndebourne’s mounting of Claus Guth’s staging shows why it should be seen more...
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It was a wise decision to programme Pavel Kolesnikov in Chopin for the penultimate Proms Chamber Music recital this season; the hour illuminated, through Kolesnikov’s sensitive and idiomatic performances, that...
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The early years of the present century were not kind to the Cincinnati Symphony, which in 1909 gave an untried Leopold Stokowski his first conducting post. The disappearance of the...
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Big Band concerts have become a regular feature at the Proms of late, and though this matinee event was not intended to be a “battle of the bands”, there was...
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Continuing the Reformation strand of this season's Proms, this concert focussed on the legacy of the early-fifteenth-century Czech reformer Jan Hus, burned at the stake in July 1415 for decrying...
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A bijou encapsulation about what the Proms is all about, albeit with a shift some six miles south-east from the Royal Albert Hall, a return to the Bold Tendencies Multi-Storey...
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Curated by the Darbar Foundation, this long late-night Prom (extending into Saturday morning) celebrated the seventieth-anniversary of the ending of colonial rule in India, the creation of the modern states...
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In an age when a short piece to open a concert is no longer the regular presence it once was – whether specifically an Overture or not, even though there...
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Beneath the Underdog proved a powerful Proms showcase of Charles Mingus’s radical repertoire, performed with bold attitude by Jules Buckley and his Metropole Orkest. Buckley was joined by a charismatic...
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Gerald McBurney – described in his biography as composer, writer and deviser – stepped down last year after a decade as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s artistic programming advisor. During that...
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That both of Elgar’s completed Symphonies were heard at the start of this Proms season (Barenboim) meant the ‘Third’ was a logical inclusion. Almost two decades on from its high-profile...
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There were times when I thought that Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla’s Beethoven, particularly in the Fifth Symphony, was too much of a good thing in its drive and tension, but there was...
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It might seem perverse to single out the only non-native composer from a recital given over largely to French song, but if one had to pick a highlight from Christiane...
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J. S. Bach’s St John Passion formed the culmination of this tripartite “Reformation Day” at the Proms, celebrating the five-hundredth-anniversary of that pivotal event in history – a work which...