BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

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Proms Chamber Music 3: A Satie Cabaret with Alistair McGowan, Jean Delescluse & Alexandre Tharaud
Nearly thwarted by delays on the Underground (latecomers arrived throughout the first fifteen minutes) this well-attended Proms Chamber Music recital of miniatures celebrated the music of Erik Satie (he was...
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Prom 22: BBC Symphony Orchestra/Edward Gardner – Mother Goose, King Lear, La mer – UK premiere of Lera Auerbach’s The Infant Minstrel and His Peculiar Menagerie
This Prom centred on a first British hearing for a major work by Lera Auerbach – the Russian-born and (for some twenty-five years) American-domiciled polymath whose music has gained something...
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Prom 21: Aurora Orchestra/Nicholas Collon – Wolfgang Rihm’s Hunted Form & Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony – François Leleux plays Richard Strauss’s Oboe Concerto
Exactly a year on, in the same matinee spot on the third Sunday of the Proms, the Aurora Orchestra and Nicholas Collon returned with their now stock-in-trade feat to play...
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Prom 20: John Eliot Gardiner conducts Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette… Julie Boulianne, Jean-Paul Fouchécourt & Laurent Naouri; Monteverdi Choir; National Youth Choir of Scotland; Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Only the fourth complete performance of Roméo et Juliette at the Proms this – although not stated as such – was really a Proms premiere. The reason? Well, John Eliot...
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Prom 19: David Bowie Prom – Marc Almond, Paul Buchanan, Neil Hannon, John Cale, Anna Calvi, Philippe Jaroussky, Laura Mvula, Amanda Palmer… s t a r g a z e/André de Ridder
Whether or not this late-night Prom would have taken place had it not been for the untimely death of David Bowie seven months ago, the opportunity to reposition arguably Britain’s...
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Prom 18: Bernard Haitink conducts the LSO in Mahler’s Third Symphony with Sarah Connolly
By convenient tradition high-profile Proms tend to come towards the end of the season but Bernard Haitink has few rivals when it comes to old-school weight and gravitas. In fifty...
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Prom 17: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra/Roger Norrington – Béatrice et Bénédict Overture & Brahms 1 – Robert Levin plays Beethoven
First, a nod to Shakespeare with the wonderful Overture to Béatrice et Bénédict, Berlioz’s comic-opera based on Much Ado About Nothing. Roger Norrington (Principal Conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony...
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Prom 16 – Dukas’s La Péri & selections from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet – Chloë Hanslip & Diego Espinosa Cruz González give premiere of Michael Berkeley’s Violin Concerto; BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Jac van Steen
For the second of its four Proms this season, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales took to dance in two ballet scores and the rhythm-fixated new Violin Concerto from Michael...
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Prom 15: BBC Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Davis – Tchaikovsky’s Tempest, Anthony Payne’s Of Land, Sea and Sky, Vaughan Williams’s Toward the Unknown Region – Ray Chen plays Bruch; Composers in Conversation
Anthony Payne, who elaborated Elgar’s sketches for his Third Symphony, turns eighty on August the Second. In recognition of this milestone, the BBC has commissioned him for a fifth time,...
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Prom 14: Rossini’s The Barber of Seville from Glyndebourne – Danielle de Niese, Alessandro Corbelli, Taylor Stayton, Björn Bürger; London Philharmonic Orchestra/Enrique Mazzola
Surprisingly, this was the first complete Proms performance of Rossini’s indestructible version of Beaumarchais’s comedy, possibly a reflection of the fact that Glyndebourne hasn’t mounted it for three decades.This year’s...
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Proms Chamber Music 2: Twelve Cellos led by Guy Johnston, with Golda Schultz in Bachianas brasileiras No.5
A dozen cellists filled Cadogan Hall’s stage for the second Proms Chamber Music recital this season, a colourful ensemble brought together by Guy Johnston. These talented musicians created a programme...
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Prom 13: London Philharmonic Orchestra/Vladimir Jurowski – Magnus Lindberg’s Two Episodes & Beethoven’s Choral Symphony
Before this premiere performance of Two Episodes, Magnus Lindberg had made it clear via publicity that he has composed a piece suitable to precede Beethoven’s ‘Choral’ Symphony. On Beethoven, “......
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Prom 12: Ten Pieces II (second concert) – DJ Switch, Matilda Lloyd, Esther Yoo, Wayne Marshall; BBC Philharmonic/Alpesh Chauhan
Last year BBC Learning launched Ten Pieces, an initiative to introduce primary-school children to classical music. Over half the schools in Britain participated, many uploading their own musical projects. It...
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Prom 11 – Die Walküre and A Child of Our Time – BBCNOW/Mark Wigglesworth
A great coupling, if perhaps not an obvious one. Mark Wigglesworth points out that both Wagner and Tippett “shared a common compassion for humanity”; Die Walküre and A Child of...
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Prom 10: Ten Pieces II – DJ Mr Switch, Matilda Lloyd, Esther Yoo, Wayne Marshall; BBC Philharmonic/Alpesh Chauhan
Building on last year’s Ten Pieces, which engaged the UK’s primary schools, the BBC last October extended the initiative to secondary schools introducing ten additional pieces as catalysts for the...