BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Prom 37: Mark Elder conducts Elgar’s The Apostles
The Apostles is an ideal work for the Proms, not just because it is rarely performed but because it suits the Royal Albert Hall. And this deeply moving performance was...
Prom 36: Glamorous Night: A Celebration of Ivor Novello
One thing that this late-night Prom proved was how easy it is to forget what the British once expected from a musical, before America started ruling the roost with shows...
Prom 35: Storgårds conducts Sibelius, Delius, Grieg & Nørgård
It may have commenced at 6.30 but that does not necessarily make it an early-evening Prom: the present concert finishing almost three hours later, in what proved to be an...
Prom 34: Bychkov conducts Unfinished Symphony, Battlefield Concerto & Ein Heldenleben
This Prom turned out to be a significant concert for Semyon Bychkov, whose close relationship with the BBC Symphony Orchestra was celebrated with a unique honour, the conferring on Bychkov...
Prom 33: Juanjo Mena conducts Wagner, MacMillan & Bruckner
The BBC Philharmonic and its newish Chief Conductor Juanjo Mena consolidated their considerable form in the penultimate of the orchestra’s four Proms. There is no doubt that the Philharmonic is...
Prom 32: Leonard Bernstein’s Mass
In a word: superb. This was a quite stunning presentation of Leonard Bernstein’s ‘Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dances’, created at the request of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to open...
PCM4: Jennifer Pike, Nicolas Altstaedt & Igor Levit – Debussy & Ravel
The Proms Chamber Music series is marking the 150th-anniversary of Debussy’s birth with performances of his major instrumental works. Here was a chance to enjoy the sonatas for violin and...
Prom 31: Donald Runnicles, BBCSSO & NYO of Scotland, Nicola Benedetti
So, the Loch Ness Monster is a tuba! Thea Musgrave has composed an inventive, sometimes witty, 11-minute piece that begins in murky depths. One senses a leviathan approaching, shoals of...
Prom 30: Flame … The Angry Planet
If I’d thought that the NYO’s 165 players the previous evening had filled the Royal Albert Hall my illusions were shattered at this afternoon prom with 550 choral members –...
Prom 29: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain – Gait … Turangalîla
On paper this looked to be one of the oddest Proms this season – how could you follow Turangalîla with anything? But Anna Meredith’s HandsFree (with NYO movement-tutor David Ogle)...
Prom 28: JoAnn Falletta, Ulster Youth Orchestra & Ulster Orchestra, James Galway
Over the road from the Royal Albert Hall, alongside the Albert Memorial, huge marquees are filled with national displays from such as Russia and South Africa. The RAH itself became...
Prom 27: Donald Runnicles conducts Wagner & Bruckner
Anton Bruckner revered Richard Wagner to the extent that his Third Symphony was dedicated to him (and originally included quotations from his works), so the two composers make a natural...
Prom 26: Bach’s Mass in B minor [The English Concert/Harry Bicket]
J. S. Bach’s Mass in B minor came right at the end of his career and used a good deal of material from earlier cantatas. It’s a work of depth...
Prom 25: BBCSO/David Robertson – The Unanswered Question … A Child of Our Time
Create a meditative and mystic string background, add a solo trumpet from somewhere undefined but tangible, and then enliven with four increasingly animated and abrasive flutes. It’s the recipe for...
Prom 24: BBC Radio 3 World Routes Academy [José Noguera & Egidio Cuadrado]
From ancient Babylon to infectious Colombian accordion rhythms in just an hour – it’s the volt face that the Proms revels in; the only reason it took an hour was...
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