BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

BBC Concert Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor Anna-Maria Helsing with James McVinnie (organ), in music by Rautavaara, Arvo Part, Philip Glass and ending with Samy Moussa's A Globe Itself Infolding Photograph: Chris Christoudoulou / BBC
BBC Concert Orchestra and Anna-Maria Helsing with James McVinnie, in music by Einojuhani Rautavaara, Arvo Pärt, Philip Glass and Samy Moussa
The Royal Albert Hall was sparsely occupied for this sequence of ambient, minimalist and meditative music from the BBC Concert Orchestra with its Principal Guest Conductor Anna-Maria Helsing and organist...
Pauline Viardot (1821–1910)
BBC New Generation Artist Ema Nikolovska and pianist Malcolm Martineau evoke Pauline Viardot’s salon for a lunchtime recital of music by the 19th-century composer and her dazzling friends and contemporaries
For those with any knowledge of the history of great singing the name of Pauline Viardot (1821-1910) looms large. Contemporary accounts reveal her to have been one of the compelling...
Domingo Hindoyan conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic in Dvořák’s Cello Concerto with Sheku Kanneh-Mason at BBC Proms 2021. Photograph: Chris Christodoulou / BBC
Sheku Kanneh-Mason as soloist in Antonín Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, former BBC Young Composer winner Grace-Evangeline Mason presents a world premiere, with music by Paul Hindemith & Richard Strauss – Royal Liverpool Philharmonic & Domingo Hindoyan
This was a terrific Prom on this gloriously sunny Sunday evening, and it attracted the highest number of Prommers, and overall audience, as I have seen this season. No doubt...
John Wilson conducts the Sinfonia of London with Francesca Chiejina for Berg's Seven Songs at BBC Proms 2021. Photograph: Chris Christodoulou / BBC
John Wilson conducts the Sinfonia of London in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus Overture & Korngold’s Symphony, and Francesca Chiejina joins them for Berg’s Seven Early Songs
In recent years John Wilson has emerged as a significant figure in British music life, even if the Royal Albert Hall still knows him best as the man who extended...
Royal Albert Hall organ Photograph: www.royalalberthall.com
Peter Holder pays tribute to centenary composer Saint-Saëns with his Fantaisie No. 1, and also plays Widor, Liszt, J. S. Bach, and Meyerbeer
Anton Bruckner and Camille Saint-Saëns gave organ recitals here in 1871 (both the Royal Albert Hall’s and this Willis organ’s inaugural year) and the latter also in 1880; Peter Holder...
Kirill Gerstein performs Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto at BBC Proms 2021. Photograph: Chris Christodoulou / BBC
BBCSO conducted by Semyon Bychkov perform Beethoven & Mendelssohn, and are joined by Kirill Gerstein in Schumann’s Piano Concerto
The BBCSO and Semyon Bychkov clearly enjoy each other’s company. He ‘sits’ on the orchestra’s Günter Wand Conducting Chair (created for him), and he has been a Proms regular over...
BBC Concert Orchestra and Principal Conductor Bramwell Tovey perform classic British film scores, celebrating Malcolm Arnold on the centenary of his birth at BBC Proms 2021. Photograph: Chris Christodoulou / BBC
BBC Concert Orchestra and Bramwell Tovey perform classic British film scores, celebrating Malcolm Arnold on the centenary of his birth
Whilst Hollywood may be the acknowledged home of narrative film scoring Britain had a long and glorious history in the twentieth century that has frequently been undervalued. It has always...
Sir George Benjamin conducts the Mahler Chamber Orchestra at BBC Proms 2021 Photograph: Chris Christodoulou / BBC
Mahler Chamber Orchestra play Knussen, Purcell, Ravel with Pierre-Laurent Aimard, and Benjamin, conducted by George Benjamin
“There seems to be an English composer called George Benjamin” joked soloist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, opening the slim score of the encore demanded by a pleasingly well-attended arena of Prommers, after...
Ilan Volkov conducts Patricia Kopatchinskaja with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at BBC Proms 2021. Photograph: Chris Christodoulou / BBC
Ilan Volkov joins Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Folktone for Béla Bartók and Hungarian Folk Music with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
There was a fiery intent to this Prom, originally conceived with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s chief conductor Thomas Dausgaard, following from his similar investigation of the folk music roots of...
Sakari Oramo conducts William Walton's Viola Concerto with Timothy Ridout at BBC Proms 2021. Photograph: Chris Christodoulou / BBC
Sakari Oramo conducts Foulds, Walton with violist Timothy Ridout, Charlotte Bray and Arnold
From the rumbustious opening bars of John Foulds’s Overture Le cabaret (for a play about 19th-century French mime artist Jean-Gaspard Deburau) to the heart-breaking fading denouement of Sir Malcolm Arnold’s...
Ilan Volkov conducts Lucy Crowe with BBCSSO. Photograph: Chris Christodoulou
Ilan Volkov conducts George Lewis and Beethoven with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
A concert of two halves, separated by 200 years, opened with the world premiere of the longest BBC commission of this Proms season, reuniting Chicago-born composer George Lewis with Ilan...
Chineke! conducted by Kalena Bovell. Photograph: Mark Allan
Chineke! – Proms debuts from Jeneba Kanneh-Mason & Kalena Bovell
Promoted from its 2017 late-night Proms debut and two 2019 CBeebies matinees, Chineke! here gave its first full-evening Prom, which also featured two impressive Proms debuts: pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason (she...
Sean Shibe Photograph: seanshibe.com
The Sound of Argentina – Guitar music by Astor Piazzolla & Ariel Ramírez performed by Sean Shibe with Wallis Giunta & Adam Walker
Sean Shibe, together with two rather special friends, presented a typically enterprising programme of Argentinian chamber music to a well-filled Cadogan Hall on Monday lunchtime. It was his Proms debut,...
Moses Sumney at BBC Proms 2021 with Jules Buckley conducting BBC Symphony Orchestra. Photograph: Mark Allan / BBC
Moses Sumney meets Jules Buckley and the BBC Symphony Orchestra
Red light. High pitch violins. Stage-left, Moses Sumney in a veil. Reprising Michael Jackson’s 2006 abaya look or trolling the Taliban? Or toying with masculine identity? Moses picked up the...
Mystery Prom 1. Photograph: BBC / Chris Christodoulou
Mystery Prom 1: Rameau; Chevalier de Saint Georges; Mozart – Britten Sinfonia, National Youth Chamber Choir & David Bates
Well, one thing has been proved: the idea of a Mystery Prom works.  The first of four – the programmes for which were only announced on the day the Proms...
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