BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Prom 2: China Philharmonic Orchestra/Long Yu with Haochen Zhang and Alison Balsom – Pomp and Circumstance … Romeo and Juliet … Pictures at an Exhibition
Since the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976 western classical music has regained its previously banned presence and is now thriving amongst the wealthier elements of Chinese society. There...
Prom 1: Elgar’s The Kingdom conducted by Andrew Davis
The First Night of BBC Proms 2014 was devoted to Elgar’s The Kingdom. An esteemed Elgarian, Andrew Davis, conducted. Premiered in 1906, The Kingdom is the second part (following The...
Prom 75: The Last Night – BBCSO/Marin Alsop with Iestyn Davies, Joyce DiDonato and Nigel Kennedy
One of the trickier tasks a musician has to master is starting a performance. The traditional overture, concerto, symphony programme offers instrumentalists, and sometimes conductors, a formula that puts the...
Prom 74: Klaus Sonnleitner plays Bach … Lorin Maazel conducts Vienna Philharmonic in Bruckner 8
Klaus Sonnleitner is the latest successor to Anton Bruckner as organist at the monastery of St Florian (in Linz, Austria). And Bruckner once gave several recitals on the Royal Albert...
Prom 73: Imogen Cooper & Paul Lewis play Schubert
Imogen Cooper and Paul Lewis are close friends, with Alfred Brendel mutual, for whom the music of Schubert is held dear. With the composer’s music lending itself to late-night listening,...
Prom 72: Joseph Calleja sings Verdi … Xian Zhang conducts Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony
Giuseppe Verdi has not done as well during this year’s Proms as his bicentennial buddy Richard Wagner. Even playing on a neutral ground in Kensington, a complete-opera score of 7-0...
Prom 71: BBCSO/Osmo Vänskä – Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, VW/Payne Four Last Songs, Pathétique Symphony
To balance the jolly japes we can expect from the Last Night, the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s penultimate Prom focused on death, with or without hope. And if that seems a...
Prom 70: BBC Singers/David Hill – Benjamin Britten’s A Boy was Born & George Lloyd’s Requiem
This late-night Prom juxtaposed works by two British composers whose centenaries fall this year. That of Benjamin Britten has been extensively celebrated, whereas that of George Lloyd has been largely...
Prom 69: Oslo Philharmonic/Vasily Petrenko – Bruckner’s Romantic Symphony – Christian Ihle Hadland plays Beethoven
Norway put its best foot forward when the Oslo Philharmonic was joined for its second Prom this season by Christian Ihle Hadland, the pianist from Stavanger – and a BBC...
Prom 68: Oslo Philharmonic/Vasily Petrenko – Tchaikovsky & Rachmaninov – Baiba Skride plays Szymanowski
Vasily Petrenko has just added the conductorship of the Oslo Philharmonic to his credits (he continues to roll along as Chief Conductor of the Royal Liverpool PO and he is...
PCM8: John Dowland Lute Songs – Ian Bostridge with Fretwork and Elizabeth Kenny
In a year holding major anniversaries for Britten, Lutosławski, Verdi and Wagner, this final Proms Chamber Music recital of the season was given over to a celebration of another anniversary-composer....
Prom 67: Orchestre de Paris/Paavo Järvi – Pärt, Berlioz, Saint-Saëns – Janine Jansen plays Britten
With autumn still on leave of absence, here was a Prom of contrasting summer moods: lowering and sepia before the interval, sunny and primary-colour-saturated thereafter. Estonian Paavo Järvi and the...
Prom 66: Family Matinee – The Big Bear Hunt
Aimed at members of the audience under 12 years of age, this Prom matinee got a big thumbs-up from its junior critics. With Michael Rosen, author of award-winning book, We’re...
Prom 65: Film Music – BBC Concert Orchestra/Keith Lockhart with Lawrence Power & Valentina Lisitsa
Following closely John Wilson’s Hollywood Prom, the BBC Concert Orchestra, with its Principal Conductor Keith Lockhart, presented a programme of film music (note not music from the movies). With English...
PSM5: Camerata Nordica/Terje Tønnesen – Britten, Tippett & Walton
This fifth and final Proms Saturday Matinee concluded the Saturday-afternoon Marking of Benjamins Britten’s centenary year by placing him in the context of his British contemporaries with works by Tippett...
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