BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Prom 16: Late Night with … BBC Radio 1 – Ibiza Prom with Pete Tong, Ella Eyre, John Newman and the Heritage Orchestra & Jules Buckley
The BBC Proms is rightly proud of its open musical approach, which brings many first-time visitors to the Royal Albert Hall, and it can now include Radio 1 among its...
Prom 15: BBCNOW/Xian Zhang – Symphonies by Prokofiev (Classical) & Rachmaninov (No.2) – and Qigang Chen’s Iris dévoilée
Two years ago, when Xian Zhang made her Proms debut with Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, she paired that composer with Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony. This time – her first...
Prom 14 – LSO/Valery Gergiev with Daniil Trifonov, Sergei Babayan and Alexei Volodin – Prokofiev’s Five Piano Concertos
Another Proms week and another cycle of five Piano Concertos, this time all on one night, shared between three pianists and with a conductor. Although a Proms first, it has...
Prom 13: BBC Symphony Orchestra/Susanna Mälkki – Boulez’s Notations & Holst’s The Planets – Leila Josefowicz gives UK premiere of Luca Francesconi’s Duende The Dark Notes
Susanna Mälkki has justly built no mean reputation among conductors of her generation, and this Prom demonstrated her prowess in a lengthy and often challenging programme which began with another...
PCM2: Royal Northern Sinfonia Winds & Christian Blackshaw – Nielsen and Mozart
The second Proms Chamber Music recital of the Season brought Royal Northern Sinfonia Winds for a most apposite coupling that opened with Carl Nielsen’s Wind Quintet (1922). Often viewed as...
Prom 12: Mahler Chamber Orchestra/Leif Ove Andsnes – Beethoven Piano Concertos (3: No.2 & Emperor) – with Stravinsky’s Octet
Stravinsky’s Octet, which opened the last of the three Proms given by the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Leif Ove Andsnes, honours the ideal of classical balance by subverting its formal...
Prom 11: Fiddler on the Roof [Grange Park Opera with Bryn Terfel; conducted by David Charles Abell]
Direct from Grange Park Opera, tickets for this Fiddler on the Roof Prom had been sold out for a while – little surprise. Add to this a new and authorised...
PSM1: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Franck Ollu – Pierre Boulez, Johannes Schöllhorn, Shiori Usui, Betsy Jolas, Joanna Lee – with Hilary Summers & Ulrich Heinen
The first of this year’s Proms Saturday Matinees was in part a tribute to Pierre Boulez, whose 90th-birthday came just four months ago. The piano original of his Notations (1945)...
Prom 10: Mahler Chamber Orchestra/Leif Ove Andsnes – Beethoven Piano Concertos (2: No.3 & Choral Fantasy) – with Stravinsky’s Dumbarton Oaks and Schoenberg’s Friede auf Erden
This second concert in Leif Ove Andsnes’s Beethoven Piano Concerto survey, Prom 10 featured a smartly chosen and well-balanced programme capped by excellent music-making.A striking feature of the Mahler Chamber...
Prom 9: Mahler Chamber Orchestra/Leif Ove Andsnes – Beethoven Piano Concertos (1: Nos.1 & 4) – with Stravinsky’s Apollon musagète
Starting not quite at the beginning and ending not quite at the end, Leif Ove Andsnes began the culmination of his four-year Beethoven Journey with his first of three Proms...
Prom 8: Late Night with … BBC Asian Network – Bobby Friction, Naughty Boy, Kanika Kapoor, Benny Dayal, Palak Muchhal, Emeli Sandé & Arrow Benjamin with the BBC Philharmonic & Richard Davis
The ties between BBC Radio 3 and its sister stations have been strengthened by Late-Night Prom collaborations. The BBC Asian Network is the latest to be awarded a Prom and...
Prom 7: BBC Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Davis – In a Summer Garden, Epithalamion, Daphnis and Chloe – Mark Simpson plays Carl Nielsen’s Clarinet Concerto; Hugh Wood Composer Portrait
This was a Lucky Seven Prom, an enticing programme and excellent performances. And there was a deeper resonance to Frederick Delius’s In a Summer Garden (1908/11) than may normally be...
Prom 6: BBCNOW/Thomas Søndergård – Symphony of Psalms, Jupiter Symphony – James O’Donnell plays Poulenc’s Organ Concerto
A diverse Prom, with celebration and extroversion as the common themes. But Thomas Søndergård’s direction of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales generally failed to catch fire.In the case of...
Prom 5: BBC Philharmonic/John Storgårds – Haydn’s La reine Symphony & Stravinsky’s Petrushka – Colin Currie premieres HK Gruber’s into the open
Although doubly welcome – there have been precious-few Haydn Symphonies at the Proms in recent years – No.85 (La reine) seemed a little fenced-off by having the interval placed immediately...
PCM1: The Cardinall’s Musick/Andrew Carwood – Thomas Tallis (Spem in Alium) & Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Andrew Carwood and The Cardinall’s Musick were all efficiency for this, the first Proms Chamber Music of the 2015 Season. All-black was the uniform and the changeover of singers choreographed....
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