BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

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Prom 9: Mahler Chamber Orchestra/Leif Ove Andsnes – Beethoven Piano Concertos (1: Nos.1 & 4) – with Stravinsky’s Apollon musagète
Starting not quite at the beginning and ending not quite at the end, Leif Ove Andsnes began the culmination of his four-year Beethoven Journey with his first of three Proms...
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Prom 8: Late Night with … BBC Asian Network – Bobby Friction, Naughty Boy, Kanika Kapoor, Benny Dayal, Palak Muchhal, Emeli Sandé & Arrow Benjamin with the BBC Philharmonic & Richard Davis
The ties between BBC Radio 3 and its sister stations have been strengthened by Late-Night Prom collaborations. The BBC Asian Network is the latest to be awarded a Prom and...
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Prom 7: BBC Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Davis – In a Summer Garden, Epithalamion, Daphnis and Chloe – Mark Simpson plays Carl Nielsen’s Clarinet Concerto; Hugh Wood Composer Portrait
This was a Lucky Seven Prom, an enticing programme and excellent performances. And there was a deeper resonance to Frederick Delius’s In a Summer Garden (1908/11) than may normally be...
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Prom 6: BBCNOW/Thomas Søndergård – Symphony of Psalms, Jupiter Symphony – James O’Donnell plays Poulenc’s Organ Concerto
A diverse Prom, with celebration and extroversion as the common themes. But Thomas Søndergård’s direction of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales generally failed to catch fire.In the case of...
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Prom 5: BBC Philharmonic/John Storgårds – Haydn’s La reine Symphony & Stravinsky’s Petrushka – Colin Currie premieres HK Gruber’s into the open
Although doubly welcome – there have been precious-few Haydn Symphonies at the Proms in recent years – No.85 (La reine) seemed a little fenced-off by having the interval placed immediately...
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PCM1: The Cardinall’s Musick/Andrew Carwood – Thomas Tallis (Spem in Alium) & Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Andrew Carwood and The Cardinall’s Musick were all efficiency for this, the first Proms Chamber Music of the 2015 Season. All-black was the uniform and the changeover of singers choreographed....
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Prom 4: Andris Nelsons conducts the CBSO in Beethoven’s Choral Symphony and, with Margaret Cookhorn, John Woolrich’s Falling Down
Andris Nelsons is now installed in his new post with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, but this Prom marked the end of his seven-year tenure with the CBSO. He returns later...
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Prom 3: Ten Pieces (2)
There was a well-filled, enthusiastic house for this second (morning) performance of the Ten Pieces Prom with primary-school children producing their creative responses to music, including through dance, digital art...
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Prom 2: Ten Pieces (1)
The BBC's Ten Pieces initiative to introduce Britain's primary-school children to the wonders of classical music culminated in this moving Proms showcase. The children's performances even overshadowed the marvellous playing...
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Prom 1: BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo – Maskarade, Dadaville, Belshazzar’s Feast – Lars Vogt plays Mozart K466
A superb mix of music launched BBC Proms 2015, including something new, something rare, and three masterpieces, one of which opened the concert.The Overture to Carl Nielsen’s comic-opera Maskerade (completed...
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Prom 76: The Last Night of the Proms – Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Janine Jansen, Elizabeth Watts, John Daszak, Roderick Williams & Ruthie Henshall – Velocity, Song for Athene, Sabre Dance, Ol’ Man River, Mary Poppins, Jerusalem
Feeling like it has been only a short time since the opening Prom, this concert saw the culmination of eight packed weeks of music-making that included musicians from around the...
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Prom 75: Alan Gilbert conducts Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Beethoven’s Choral Symphony & Friedrich Cerha’s Paraphrase
With Beethoven’s ‘Choral’ Symphony in its traditional Proms place, perhaps all will be well with the world – it certainly deserves to be, given the integrity of Alan Gilbert and...
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Prom 74: Late Night with … Rufus Wainwright, Deborah Voigt, Britten Sinfonia & Johannes Debus
Rufus Wainwright proved a natural choice for the last late-night Prom of the 2014 season. The Canadian-American singer grew up with music as his life, his parents being folk-singers Loudon...
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Prom 73: Alan Gilbert conducts Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra & Gerhild Romberger in Mahler 3
The Third did not get a Proms hearing in whole or in part until the Mahler boom of the 1960s. (In 1962 Norman Del Mar was on the podium with...
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Prom 72: BBC Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Litton with Lise Berthaud – Greensleeves, Exody, Walton’s Viola Concerto, Vaughan Williams 4; Harrison Birtwistle Composer Portrait
The Proms season’s coverage of Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s music in his 80th-birthday year came to a head with this revival of Exody (1997), heard within a programme of English composers...