BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

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This Prom celebrated American music through three works dating from the wartime period – a highly productive time for Aaron Copland – in the first half, and then with music...
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Life begins at 80, and on this day, for Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. ‘Max’, as he is affectionately known, suffered a severe bout of leukaemia only last year, during which...
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Maybe two Cleveland Orchestra programmes of Brahms and Jörg Widmann conducted by music director Franz Welser-Möst was one too much, for the Royal Albert Hall was half-full/half-empty, although the Arena...
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In the final Proms Chamber Music recital of this season a capacity audience at Cadogan Hall greeted the Nash Ensemble (in its 50th-anniversary year) together with Ian Bostridge, Felicity Palmer...
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One of America’s major ensembles, the Cleveland Orchestra is making two visits to the 2014 Proms with its Music Director, Franz Welser-Möst. This also happens to come just after the...
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The Qatar Philharmonic was formed in 2007, funded by the Qatar Foundation, and is currently in its first season under the South Korean cellist/conductor Han-Na Chang as music director. In...
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Peter Sellars’s staging of J. S. Bach’s St Matthew Passion in conjunction with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Simon Rattle was first seen in 2010, and in the context of Proms...
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After the previous Peter Maxwell Davies portrait (PSM3), this last of the season Proms Saturday Matinee was devoted to Harrison Birtwistle – three works written consecutively around the turn of...
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Continuing the seemingly inexhaustible drive to change the focus of "the world's greatest classical music festival", this late-night Prom introduced three-times BRIT Award-nominee Paloma Faith. It was an eclectic mix...
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In their first Prom since 2012 (coincidentally also No.64) the Berliner Philharmoniker and Simon Rattle returned to the Royal Albert Hall to god-like veneration. A capacity audience applauded rapturously, welcoming...
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John Adams’s Short Ride in a Fast Machine finally received its first outing in a Prom, having previously been removed from the schedules at short notice in the 1997 and...
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The 80-year-old Sir Roger Norrington was back at the Proms, as conductor laureate, with his old flame from Stuttgart, the orchestra with which he grafted ‘period’ manners onto modern instruments,...
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The Singapore Symphony Orchestra (boasting a large number of nationalities amongst its members) and its music director since 1997, Lan Shui, provided a thought-provoking Prom crowned by an impressive performance...
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When in Rome... Charles Dutoit and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (now a magnetic attraction in London’s concert life) opened this Prom with Berlioz’s colourful Roman Carnival (its music rescued from...
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Benjamin Grosvenor opened this lunchtime Prom with Chopin’s G minor Ballade, immediately commanding and then tender, but becoming somewhat literal at times if with an impressive if angular cutting-loose when...