BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Prom 4: Andris Nelsons conducts the CBSO in Beethoven’s Choral Symphony and, with Margaret Cookhorn, John Woolrich’s Falling Down
Andris Nelsons is now installed in his new post with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, but this Prom marked the end of his seven-year tenure with the CBSO. He returns later...
Prom 3: Ten Pieces (2)
There was a well-filled, enthusiastic house for this second (morning) performance of the Ten Pieces Prom with primary-school children producing their creative responses to music, including through dance, digital art...
Prom 2: Ten Pieces (1)
The BBC's Ten Pieces initiative to introduce Britain's primary-school children to the wonders of classical music culminated in this moving Proms showcase. The children's performances even overshadowed the marvellous playing...
Prom 1: BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo – Maskarade, Dadaville, Belshazzar’s Feast – Lars Vogt plays Mozart K466
A superb mix of music launched BBC Proms 2015, including something new, something rare, and three masterpieces, one of which opened the concert.The Overture to Carl Nielsen’s comic-opera Maskerade (completed...
Prom 76: The Last Night of the Proms – Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Janine Jansen, Elizabeth Watts, John Daszak, Roderick Williams & Ruthie Henshall – Velocity, Song for Athene, Sabre Dance, Ol’ Man River, Mary Poppins, Jerusalem
Feeling like it has been only a short time since the opening Prom, this concert saw the culmination of eight packed weeks of music-making that included musicians from around the...
Prom 75: Alan Gilbert conducts Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Beethoven’s Choral Symphony & Friedrich Cerha’s Paraphrase
With Beethoven’s ‘Choral’ Symphony in its traditional Proms place, perhaps all will be well with the world – it certainly deserves to be, given the integrity of Alan Gilbert and...
Prom 74: Late Night with … Rufus Wainwright, Deborah Voigt, Britten Sinfonia & Johannes Debus
Rufus Wainwright proved a natural choice for the last late-night Prom of the 2014 season. The Canadian-American singer grew up with music as his life, his parents being folk-singers Loudon...
Prom 73: Alan Gilbert conducts Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra & Gerhild Romberger in Mahler 3
The Third did not get a Proms hearing in whole or in part until the Mahler boom of the 1960s. (In 1962 Norman Del Mar was on the podium with...
Prom 72: BBC Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Litton with Lise Berthaud – Greensleeves, Exody, Walton’s Viola Concerto, Vaughan Williams 4; Harrison Birtwistle Composer Portrait
The Proms season’s coverage of Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s music in his 80th-birthday year came to a head with this revival of Exody (1997), heard within a programme of English composers...
Prom 71: BBC Concert Orchestra/Keith Lockhart – Aaron Copland’s Rodeo, Quiet City, Appalachian Spring – Dave and Chris Brubeck, Time for Three
This Prom celebrated American music through three works dating from the wartime period – a highly productive time for Aaron Copland – in the first half, and then with music...
Prom 70: Peter Maxwell Davies at 80 – Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Ben Gernon with Dimitri Ashkenazy & Robert Jordan – Ebb of Winter, Strathclyde Concerto 4, An Orkney Wedding
Life begins at 80, and on this day, for Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. ‘Max’, as he is affectionately known, suffered a severe bout of leukaemia only last year, during which...
Prom 69: Cleveland Orchestra/Franz Welser-Möst – Brahms & Jörg Widmann (2)
Maybe two Cleveland Orchestra programmes of Brahms and Jörg Widmann conducted by music director Franz Welser-Möst was one too much, for the Royal Albert Hall was half-full/half-empty, although the Arena...
PCM8: Shostakovich Waltzes and Walton’s Façade – Ian Bostridge, Felicity Palmer, Nash Ensemble/John Wilson
In the final Proms Chamber Music recital of this season a capacity audience at Cadogan Hall greeted the Nash Ensemble (in its 50th-anniversary year) together with Ian Bostridge, Felicity Palmer...
Prom 68: Cleveland Orchestra/Franz Welser-Möst with Joshua Smith – Brahms & Jörg Widmann (1)
One of America’s major ensembles, the Cleveland Orchestra is making two visits to the 2014 Proms with its Music Director, Franz Welser-Möst. This also happens to come just after the...
Prom 67: Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra/Han-Na Chang with Denis Matsuev – Ranjbaran, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky
The Qatar Philharmonic was formed in 2007, funded by the Qatar Foundation, and is currently in its first season under the South Korean cellist/conductor Han-Na Chang as music director. In...
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