BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

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The earlier of this evening’s two Proms featured what may prove the most singular among this year’s commissions. Interesting, too, it should come from Malcolm Hayes – who, now in...
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During the Proms last year, Sakari Oramo conjured an inspired and dancing Beethoven 7. In Beethoven’s Fifth he went for pace but was never glib, and if the lack of...
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For the last of its six Proms this season, the BBC Philharmonic, here with Chief Conductor Juanjo Mena, opened with Mark Simpson’s Israfel (first heard in Glasgow in April 2015),...
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There was no Philharmonia Orchestra Prom in 2014 but it now looks as if that was just a blip, notwithstanding Esa-Pekka Salonen’s growing prominence as a composer. While his own...
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This decidedly relaxed and enjoyable Proms Chamber Music hour opened with a journey encapsulated in Russia’s first satellite: Sputnik. Composed for the opening of Malmö’s new concert hall last year...
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Thomas Dausgaard is Chief Conductor designate of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, to succeed Donald Runnicles. Dausgaard has a huge repertoire and an engaging stage presence.Scythian Suite (1915) has a...
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Helen Grime was an oboist with the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland so it is fitting that this group should give the premiere of Snow, the second part of Grime’s...
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After having given one of the best concerts of the year so far, in April at the Royal Festival Hall, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain was in London...
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Neither small nor solemn, Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle (1863) is the last of his major works and came after an opera-dry period, for William Tell had been completed over three...
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Now into its third decade, the National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland was more than due a Proms platform for its all-round excellence. Falling into three parts, this late-night event...
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Helen Grime is worth getting to know. In her interesting Conversation with Andrew McGregor (without live music on this occasion) she revealed a wide range of cultural tastes. She recounted...
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Renowned as conductor, pianist and arranger, Reinbert de Leeuw (born 1938) is little known outside the Netherlands as a composer. Yet in the 1960s he was at the forefront of...
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“The tale is old / That shall be told”. John Relyea has one of those voices that seem to come from a couple of hundred metres underground. Speaking the Prologue...
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Centenary composer Alberto Ginastera remains an unknown quantity, although English National Opera’s production of Bomarzo is fondly remembered from forty years ago.The colourfully scored Ollantay – only the fourth time...
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This intelligently devised and enthrallingly executed programme explored a metaphysical and otherworldly dimension as envisaged by a variety of north-European composers. John Storgårds conducted the BBC Philharmonic on that journey...