BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

An American orchestra, a Swiss conductor ... what better piece to start with than Sibelius’s Finlandia, more of a national anthem for the country than the official one. Still it...
In a Proms season with understandably its fair share of Liszt and Mahler, why not also a slot devoted to Stan Kenton – the American bandleader whose centenary falls this...
David Robertson rounded off his contribution to this year’s Proms with this wide-ranging concert of British music – taking in an established classic alongside the revival of an early work...
With its impressive sequence of big-name music directors and extensive foreign touring, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is an institution that has consistently punched above its weight. Manfred Honeck may not...
This Prom was originally planned to include a rare performance of Frankfurt-born Walter Braunfels’s Fantastic Appearances of a Theme by Hector Berlioz, or so the Proms Prospectus for this Pittsburgh...
Contrasting violin sonatas formed the programme for the last in this year’s Proms Chamber Music series at Cadogan Hall. The established partnership of Christian Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt looked at...
Sir Colin Davis may need to sit these days, but there was not a hint of frailty in this performance of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, nor in his vision of a...
The Parisian organist Thierry Escaich is the titulaire at St-Etienne-du-Mont, the only church in Paris, apparently, with a screen between nave and choir (a magnificent and bizarre Renaissance creation flanked...
Quite a lot of time in this lengthy Prom was taken up by platform changes – first between the large forces of the Elgar and the chamber ensemble of the...
It did cross my mind to head this review “Hurrah for Tippett” – the reasons will become apparent, but it is strange how the music of this great composer has...
Rarely, if ever, has there been a Prom without a programme in advance; very rare in British concert life is that the case but, on occasion, in Budapest, it has...
It was easy to tell which Prom-goers have children around the house. When Dejan Lazić launched into his encore, the Royal Albert Hall audience divided into those who instantly identified...
This year brings Bombay-born Zubin Mehta’s 75th-birthday and also marks his fifty-year association with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (from eleventh-hour replacement for Eugene Ormandy to Music Director for Life). The...
Performing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Proms is an (almost) annual tradition which has survived the best part of a century of upheaval, the question nowadays being what to programme...
Fluency and refinement were there for the taking in the French pianist David Fray’s Proms debut, as was his clean and analytical approach to one of Mozart’s biggest piano concertos,...
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