BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

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Prom 9: Le Cercle de l’Harmonie/Jérémie Rhorer – Mozart 39 & Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony – Rosa Feola sings Mendelssohn & Mozart Concert Arias
The Concert Aria is not a musical genre that appears often nowadays and this interesting programme had the resonance of past Promenade concerts.Mendelssohn’s Infelice (to words by Metastasio) was performed...
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Prom 8: Strictly Come Dancing presented and danced by Katie Derham, with Joanne Clifton, Karen Clifton, Kevin Clifton, Janette Manrara, Giovanni Pernice & Aljaž Škorjanec
Strictly Come Dancing has reached the Proms and, to assist this unique event, a bigger stage had to be organised. The presence of the familiar glitter-ball added to the sparkle,...
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Prom 7: Shylock, Pulcinella, Poulenc’s Stabat Mater – BBC Symphony Orchestra/Marc Minkowski
The creative stimulus behind this Prom derived from Shakespeare, then the commedia dell’arte and finally the 13th-century penitential poem Stabat mater dolorosa. The concert brought together some of Fauré’s delightful...
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Prom 6: Gospel Prom presented by Michelle Williams
The singing voice was the central feature of this the second Gospel-themed Prom. This vibrant exploration of the genre focused on one of its staple components; the choir. The event...
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Prom 5: Gianandrea Noseda conducts Beethoven’s Missa solemnis
Beethoven’s Missa solemnis has clocked up a notable series of performances at the Proms, the most recent having been those conducted by John Eliot Gardiner in 2014 and Colin Davis...
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Prom 4: Munich Philharmonic/Valery Gergiev – Boléro, Jesus Messiah Save Us, Der Rosenkavalier – Behzod Abduraimov plays Rachmaninov
The Munich Philharmonic has a venerable history. Founded in 1893, its conductors in recent times have included Sergiu Celibidache, James Levine, Christian Thielemann and Lorin Maazel. Valery Gergiev has now...
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Proms Chamber Music 1: Debussy’s Cello Sonata, Dutilleux’s Ainsi la nuit & Mozart K414 – Bjørg Lewis & Paul Lewis; Vertavo String Quartet
The first Proms Chamber Music concert at Cadogan Hall during the 2016 season was certainly not short of substance with three major works.This auspicious opening recital included Debussy’s Cello Sonata,...
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Prom 3: Haydn’s Mass in Time of War … Fauré’s Requiem – Choir of King’s College Cambridge & OAE/Stephen Cleobury
Here was a world-famous Cambridge Choir singing Haydn and Fauré with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. So what’s not to like? On the surface not much, but occasionally,...
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Prom 2: The Royal Opera – Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov – Bryn Terfel; conducted by Antonio Pappano
This may have been only the second Prom of the 2016 season but surely it provided the first climax. The Royal Opera House brought its recent production of Mussorgsky’s original...
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Prom 1: BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo – Romeo and Juliet, Alexander Nevsky – Sol Gabetta plays Elgar’s Cello Concerto
The BBC Proms 2016 season opened with a stirring mark of respect as regards the atrocity that had occurred twenty-four hours earlier in Nice. ‘La Marseillaise’, played with honour by...
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Alan Davey – Controller BBC Radio 3 – Classical Source Blog
It’s that time of year again – the time of year when the musical world turns its attention to South Kensington and the Royal Albert Hall with the thousands of...
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Prom-tiddly-Prom-Prom – Nick Breckenfield reveals his Top Ten BBC Proms for the 2016 season, which opens on Friday July 15
Charged with choosing ten highlights from this year’s Proms schedule, I’m going to cheat ... so expect more than ten concerts, but there will be the ten best strands.There’s a...
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Prom 76: Marin Alsop conducts The Last Night of the Proms with Benjamin Grosvenor, Jonas Kaufmann and Danielle de Niese – Puccini Arias, I bought me a cat, Land of Hope and Glory, Jerusalem, Rule Britannia!, Auld Lang Syne
Dedicated to a “just, moderate and peaceful society” – as per Marin Alsop’s second-half speech – the Last Night of the Proms 2015 accentuated a transatlantic flavour that included music...
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Prom 75: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (2) – Simon Rattle conducts Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius with Toby Spence, Roderick Williams, Magdalena Kožená, and the BBC Proms Youth Choir
It was not until 1957 that The Dream of Gerontius reached the Proms unabridged, a development associated with the arrival as chief conductor in 1948 of Malcolm Sargent who was...
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Prom 74: Wireless Nights Prom With Jarvis Cocker
The last in this Season’s late-night Proms collaborations was an ambitious undertaking. Jarvis Cocker’s Radio 4 programme Wireless Nights, featuring the nocturnal habits and musings of the British public, came...