BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

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There were also at least three phenomenal feats of memory – not just from the players in the Meredith and Beethoven, but also Francesco Piemontesi, playing the Piano Concerto from...
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The Proms’ late-night Bach series suggests intimacy and meditation, and that is what Alina Ibragimova gave in this second instalment of her complete survey of the composer’s solo-violin Sonatas and...
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Luke Bedford has for over a decade been writing music difficult to define in terms of idiom, while avoiding any risk of stylistic tourism. This consistency is essential to Instability...
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This is only the second Prom (and it was a late-night affair) – during one hundred and twenty-one seasons – to programme J. S. Bach’s solo-violin repertoire. It seems fitting...
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Once in a blue moon I find myself utterly aghast at a concert. As it happened it was a blue moon (a month in which there are two full moons...
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The Proms exploration of neglected British music continued with this rare revival of Sancta civitas (1925) by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Designated an oratorio, its brief duration (little more than 30...
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The BBC Proms is rightly proud of its open musical approach, which brings many first-time visitors to the Royal Albert Hall, and it can now include Radio 1 among its...
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Two years ago, when Xian Zhang made her Proms debut with Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, she paired that composer with Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony. This time – her first...
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Another Proms week and another cycle of five Piano Concertos, this time all on one night, shared between three pianists and with a conductor. Although a Proms first, it has...
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Susanna Mälkki has justly built no mean reputation among conductors of her generation, and this Prom demonstrated her prowess in a lengthy and often challenging programme which began with another...
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The second Proms Chamber Music recital of the Season brought Royal Northern Sinfonia Winds for a most apposite coupling that opened with Carl Nielsen’s Wind Quintet (1922). Often viewed as...
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Stravinsky’s Octet, which opened the last of the three Proms given by the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Leif Ove Andsnes, honours the ideal of classical balance by subverting its formal...
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Direct from Grange Park Opera, tickets for this Fiddler on the Roof Prom had been sold out for a while – little surprise. Add to this a new and authorised...
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The first of this year’s Proms Saturday Matinees was in part a tribute to Pierre Boulez, whose 90th-birthday came just four months ago. The piano original of his Notations (1945)...
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This second concert in Leif Ove Andsnes’s Beethoven Piano Concerto survey, Prom 10 featured a smartly chosen and well-balanced programme capped by excellent music-making.A striking feature of the Mahler Chamber...