BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Proms 2011 – Bournemouth SO/Karabits – Liszt, Ailish Tynan sings Glière, Rachmaninov
Kirill Karabits brought a Ukrainian countryman with him to open this Prom, Ivan Mazepa, the seventeenth-century ruler of the country. Two centuries later, with an extra ‘p’ gained and Victor...
Proms 2011 – BBCNOW/Roth – Enter Spring … Centauromachy … Saint-Saëns 3
An Anglo-French Prom this time (neatly divided by the interval), which featured at its centre a recent piece by Simon Holt, whose Centauromachy (2009) draws its inspiration from the mythical...
Proms 2011 – Stockholm/Oramo – Sibelius & Nielsen … Alice Sara Ott plays Grieg
Love it or loathe it, the Royal Albert Hall is a marvel of Victorian architecture but it is not perhaps the most obvious venue for launching the more delicate and...
Proms 2011 – Khatia Buniatishvili
Her programme and performing style suggests that Khatia Buniatishvili is an artist to compare closely with a young Martha Argerich, who has paid particularly close attention to her development as...
Proms 2011 – Mahler’s Das klagende Lied & Christian Tetzlaff plays Brahms
This programme deftly contrasted two works from the late 1870s, both exhibiting their own romance, from composers at markedly different stages of their artistic development. The scale and demands of...
Proms 2011 – Kennedy plays Bach
That the Royal Albert Hall was packed to the rafters, with queues at every door (causing a delayed start) for a one-hour-long, late-night concert is surely testament to the pull...
Proms 2011 – National Youth O/Vladimir Jurowski DJ Switch Benjamin Grosvenor
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain concerts are special occasions at the Proms. There aren’t many times when a concertgoer sees 165 young musicians (aged thirteen to nineteen) performing at...
Proms 2011 – Simón Bolívar SO/Gustavo Dudamel – Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony
The Prommers’ queue outside seemed to stretch out to infinity, and to judge from the sense of occasion and anticipation from those inside the Royal Albert Hall, everyone was rooting...
Proms 2011 – Late-night Victoria
This year marks the 400th-anniversary of Tomás Luis de Victoria’s death. Not many people know that! One reason is that he is not immediately recognised as being at the top...
Proms 2011 – BBCSSO/Runnicles – Holloway & Brahms … Hellevi Martinpelto sings Strauss
Never a composer known for half-measures, Robin Holloway has written a number of large-scale symphonic works over the course of his career though, apart from a solitary Symphony (premiered at...
Proms 2011 – BBCSSO/Runnicles – Lynn Harrell plays Dutilleux … Daphnis et Chloé
It says much for the consistently excellent performances that graced this Prom by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Donald Runnicles that the music survived the startling amount of coughing...
Proms 2011 – Late-night Percy Grainger
It is fifty years since Percy Grainger died, and following Sir Andrew Davis’s ebullient contribution to the commemorations, this gem of a late-night Prom opened with the striking quality of...
Proms 2011 – BBCSO/Andrew Davis – Tasmin Little plays Elgar … Till Eulenspiegel
One thing that the Percy Grainger suite made clear was the revelation, yet again, of the superhuman virtuosity of Edward Elgar’s and Richard Strauss’s orchestrations. This isn’t brilliance for brilliance’s...
Proms 2011 – BBCP/Noseda – Stephen Hough plays Saint-Saëns … Dante Symphony
Making his final appearance with the BBC Philharmonic as its Chief Conductor, Gianandrea Noseda directed a lengthy programme of meaningful contrasts. Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony (1806) is not so often given...
Proms 2011 – Les Talens Lyriques
There were two principal aims to this highly attractive lunchtime recital from Les Talens Lyriques and its artistic director Christophe Rousset – to bring forward a lesser light from the...
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