BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

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Prom 34: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Kirill Karabits – Peter Grimes & Prokofiev 5 – Nicola Benedetti plays Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Violin Concerto
Whether or not planned as such, the programme of this Prom was conveniently unified by date – all three works being premiered, albeit with varying degrees of success, in 1945.In...
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PCM4: Evelyn Glennie & Philip Smith
Three weeks after her 50th-birthday (19 July), Evelyn Glennie returned to the Proms for this lunchtime concert, with regular recital partner, Philip Smith, twenty-six years after their first appearance at...
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Prom 33: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner – Beethoven’s Fifth & Berlioz’s Fantastic Symphony
Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring are often presented as giant musical leaps for mankind. Perhaps no less remarkable is the musical distance travelled between Beethoven’s Fifth...
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Prom 32: Eric Whitacre conducts… The River Cam (with Leonard Elschenbroich), Cloudburst, Equus, Deep Field – and Martin James Bartlett plays Rhapsody in Blue
I didn’t know what to expect on this Sunday afternoon – not having particularly registered Eric Whitacre before (and being elsewhere on his previous Proms appearance, No.62 – late night...
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Prom 31: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain/Mark Elder – Tansy Davies’s Re-greening & Mahler 9
To begin this without-interval Prom the gifted members of the National Youth Orchestra played Tansy Davies’s Re-greening without a conductor, as intended, and did so with total confidence and unanimity,...
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PSM2: B’Rock with Dmitry Sinkovsky & Mary-Ellen Nesi – Vivaldi, Caldara, Geminiani
The previous night, over at the Royal Albert Hall, the BBC Philharmonic had played a French-themed programme with works from three of the last four centuries. This Saturday-afternoon at Cadogan...
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Prom 30: Late Night Sinatra – Seth MacFarlane with Jamie Parker & Claire Martin; John Wilson Orchestra
Over the last couple of weeks BBC Radio and BBC Television have extensively promoted this Prom, so it is hardly surprising that it was a sell-out. There was plenty of...
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Prom 29: BBC Philharmonic/Nicholas Collon – Idomeneo ballet music, La valse, Un oiseau des arbres de Vie, Oiseaux tristes, Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements – Jean-Efflam Bavouzet plays Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G
France and the dance seemed to be the connecting factor in this effervescent Prom offering the best of the BBC Philharmonic with Nicholas Collon. There were two French composers Ravel...
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Prom 28: BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oliver Knussen – The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee, The Poem of Ecstasy – Lawrence Power plays Mark-Anthony Turnage’s On Opened Ground
It is very easy to pigeonhole Oliver Knussen, and unfortunately some people do, yet anyone aware of his conducting craft – such as in Schumann’s ‘Rhenish’ Symphony, Richard Strauss’s Don...
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Prom 27: Late Night With … BBC Radio 6 Music – A Winged Victory for the Sullen, London Brass, Random Dance Company Wayne McGregor, Nils Frahm
This was the second Prom to be held under the auspices of BBC Radio 6 Music, and while the first in 2013 was essentially a showcase for the station and...
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Prom 26: BBCNOW/Tadaaki Otaka with Chloë Hanslip & Ailish Tynan – Walton, Vaughan Williams, Grace Williams, Elgar – Spitfire Prelude and Fugue, Fairest of Stars, Froissart
It was a genuine pleasure to welcome Tadaaki Otaka back to the Proms with what one might regard as ‘his’ orchestra in terms of those he has conducted in the...
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Prom 25: John Eliot Gardiner conducts Monteverdi’s Orfeo – with Krystian Adam & Mariana Flores and the Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists
Opulence and animation in abundance marked this semi-staged performance of Monteverdi's seminal opera, Orfeo. These were inherent qualities in Sir John Eliot Gardiner's interpretation, rather than inculcated in order to...
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Prom 24: Donald Runnicles conducts James MacMillan’s Fourth Symphony and Mahler’s Fifth – BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
James MacMillan’s latest Symphony, completed this year, is dedicated to Donald Runnicles. Sir James’s No.4 plays continuously for close on forty minutes, is scored for a full if not extravagant...
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PCM3: Apollon Musagète Quartet – Webern, Colin Matthews and Beethoven
With their affectionate performance of Webern’s Slow Movement, the members of the Apollon Musagète Quartet brought forward its likely status as a love-song to his cousin Wilhelmine Mortl, whom the...
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Prom 23: Donald Runnicles conducts Verdi’s Requiem – BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra & Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin with Angela Meade, Karen Cargill, Yosep Kang & Raymond Aceto
Donald Runnicles was conducting, and he was wearing two of his official hats, those of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Deutsche Oper Berlin.Verdi’s Requiem here took root in...