BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Nubya Garcia makes her Proms debut on Wednesday 18 August 2021 Photograph: Mark Allan / BBC
Nubya Garcia’s Proms debut
This was the Proms debut of London's own jazz saxophonist Nubya Garcia, and another step in the extraordinary progress of the female jazz performer. A nod to her vocal predecessor Sade,...
A Night at the Opera with BBC Philharmonic conducted by Ben Glassberg at BBC Proms 2021. Photograph: BBC / Chris Christodoulou
A Night at the Opera to Soothe the Aching Heart with BBC Philharmonic conducted by Ben Glassberg
This was the sort of comfort-zone Prom you might expect to grace a weekend evening – a catch-all title to reflect the joys and woes of the past year and...
Paavo Järvi conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra with Víkingur Ólafsson at BBC Proms 2021. Photograph: BBC / Mark Allan
Víkingur Ólafsson’s Proms debut, with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Paavo Järvi – Prokofiev, J.S. Bach, Mozart & Shostakovich
By recent Covid standards, this was a sell-out – Rausing Circle (rousingly) packed to the rafters, and similarly all four quadrants of the choir stalls.  The Arena seemed to have...
Martyn Brabbins. Photograph: ©HyperionS-Perry
BBCSO|Martyn Brabbins & Sarah Connolly – Anthony Payne, Berlioz & Beethoven
Nature and seasons guided this BBC Symphony Orchestra Prom, opening with the first Proms performance of Anthony Payne’s Spring’s Shining Wake, composed in 1981. For now, Payne is probably remembered...
Vladimir Jurowski conducts London Philharmonic Orchestra with Steven Isserlis at BBC Proms 2021. Photograph: BBC / Chris Christodoulou
Vladimir Jurowski’s farewell to the London Philharmonic Orchestra – Stravinsky, Walton, J. S. Bach & Hindemith
It was going to be something special: not only a classic Vladimir Jurowski programme, but his last as principal conductor of the London Philharmonic.  Add in the spotlight of the...
Liza Ferschtman plays Sibelius's Violin Concerto with BBC Philharmonic conducted by John Storgårds at BBC Proms 2021 Photograph: BBC / Chris Christodoulou
BBC Philharmonic|John Storgårds – Britta Byström’s Parallel Universes & Schumann’s Rhenish Symphony – Liza Ferschtman plays Sibelius’s Violin Concerto
In the weird and wonderful parallel universe of the Proms archive, it is extraordinary to discover that there have been more performances of Schumann’s Rhenish Symphony in the first quarter...
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain conducted by Jonathon Heyward. Photograph: BBC / Chris Christodoulou
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain with Nicola Benedetti & Jonathon Hayward – Laura Jurd’s Chant; Jessie Montgomery’s Banner; Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony; Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto
The miracle of the National Youth Orchestra returned to its rightful annual place at the Proms, after the hiatus of last year (perhaps not as long-standing a tradition at the...
Martyn Brabbins. Photograph: ©HyperionS-Perry
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra|Martyn Brabbins – Pergolesi’s Stabat mater; Stravinsky’s Pulcinella
The BBC Proms in 2021 have deviated quite a bit from the earlier published Proms Guide due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Tonight is no exception, as Martyn Brabbins stepped in,...
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla. Photograph: BBC / Chris Christodoulou
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra|Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla – Symphonies by Ruth Gipps, Thomas Adès and Johannes Brahms
Three Symphonies in this programme, separated in time by approximately equal periods, and very different in style and form. The first was Ruth Gipps’s single movement Symphony No. 2, receiving...
RPO, Vasily Petrenko & Sayaka Shoji at BBC Proms 2021 Photograph: BBC / Chris Christodoulou
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Vasily Petrenko – Vaughan Williams & Mendelssohn – Sayaka Shoji plays Respighi
Continuing his love-affair with British orchestras after fifteen years with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the RPO’s new music director (from August 1st) sets out his stall in a programme of...
Elisabeth Brauß. Photograph: Felix Broede
BBC Philharmonic & Ben Gernon – Symphonies by Haydn and Beethoven; Elisabeth Brauß plays Mozart’s K488
The BBC Philharmonic’s chief conductor Omer Meir Wellber had to withdraw from this first Prom – Covid again – so out went the advertised first-half of Schubert and a BBC...
BBC National Orchestra of Wales & Ryan Bancroft – Guy Johnston plays Saint-Saëns's First Cello Concerto Photograph: BBC / Chris Christodoulou
BBC National Orchestra of Wales & Ryan Bancroft – Guy Johnston plays Saint-Saëns; Purcell’s Dido’s Lament; Elizabeth Ogonek’s Cloudline; Brahms’s Fourth Symphony
Due to “scheduling issues arising from the pandemic” both conductor Elim Chan and cellist Sol Gabetta were unable to travel here. In steps Guy Johnston – quite a performing world...
Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942)
Zemlinsky & Brahms Clarinet Trios at Cadogan Hall – Michael Collins, Adrian Brendel, Michael McHale
This Cadogan Hall Proms recital of two late-romantic clarinet trios was well worth the two-year absence, the later by Zemlinsky deferring to Brahms’s late love-affair with the artistry of the...
BBC Proms 2021 Scottish Chamber Orchestra | Maxim Emelyanychev – Mozart’s final three symphonies Photograph: BBC / Chris Christodoulou
Scottish Chamber Orchestra & Maxim Emelyanychev – Mozart’s final three Symphonies
There is a bit of a vogue in considering these final symphonic masterpieces as a triptych. Nikolaus Harnoncourt described them as an “instrumental oratorio”, with each being, respectively, the prelude,...
Royal Albert Hall organ Photograph: www.royalalberthall.com
Martin Baker organ recital – Johann Sebastian Bach and improvisations
"Due to Covid" – an overworked mantra for these distracted times – this Proms organ recital was to have been given by the Notre-Dame titulaire Olivier Latry, but the Parisian...
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