BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

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An approximation of the gaudy savagery of ancient Russia was the starting point for the BBC Philharmonic’s Prom with its Conductor Laureate Gianandrea Noseda, and I’d be impressed if a...
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tenThing’s leader Tine Thing Helseth related how her female brass ensemble came about – in 2007 – as a bit of fun. The players (not exclusively the line-up here) decided...
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Within a Proms season dominated by Wagner in general and his later music-dramas in particular, it is good that the earlier Romantic operas have not been neglected and Tannhäuser was...
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I can imagine the point of having the Blue Danube Waltz as a curtain-raiser to the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and its Chief Conductor Donald Runnicles’s Saturday-night Prom was the...
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Following the “Handel in Italy” Proms Saturday Matinee, the remaining four are all given to exploring Benjamin Britten and his circle and influences. Here, appropriately with the strings and percussion...
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Colin Anderson writes... Naresh Sohal’s The Cosmic Dance (2012-13) has been inspired by the Big Bang. It is, says the composer, “my own musical account of the phenomenon of the...
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Oliver Knussen’s concerts are not amenable to hype – now past sixty, the conductor-composer directs sitting down, his gestures economical and to the point – but his BBC Symphony Orchestra...
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Nobody made music quite like Frank Zappa. He had the rare gift of making some incredibly complex and zany music that remained approachable, whether approached from a rock or classical...
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The term ‘light music’ is easily misused, and abused, inviting negative connotations of music that is often beautifully written and proportioned. This Prom reminded us that this is emphatically not...
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In C. No, not by Terry Reilly but a BBC Prom of masterworks nominally in C major, two symphonies and piano concerto, but not before the spectre of C minor...
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After a week of non-scheduled Late Night Proms (Wagner providing enough on his own), the season’s third week opened with a return to nocturnal form. It culminated three ‘late’ vocal...
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Although completed in 2006, Colin Matthews’s Turning Point (written for the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra) has had a long wait for a British premiere. It’s a substantial work in a 20-minute...
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To mark the centenary of Benjamin Britten’s birth, BBC Proms director Roger Wright has wisely opted for quality rather than quantity in the programming, discreetly placing a mix of the...
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This conclusion to the BBC Proms’s first single-season Ring cycle – one was produced not so long ago with an opera per year, each opera’s first complete outings here –...
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Stealing in with chronological correctness into the continuing drama of the Proms Ring cycle, this exceptional account of Tristan und Isolde – Wagner’s hymn to desire, darkness and death –...