BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

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Prom 54: Max 9, Shostakovich 10, Tasmin Little plays Delius
During the course of his near-decade as Master of the Queen’s Music, Peter Maxwell Davies ('Max') has written a number of ‘official’ works as well as a substantial body of...
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Prom 53: 1612 Italian Vespers [I Fagiolini/Robert Hollingworth]
“The comparison is unfair”, Robert Hollingworth protested at the start of this late-night Prom, “the same as saying: with the greatest work of art in the world, how does this...
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Prom 52: Gergiev conducts Prokofiev’s Cinderella
For balletomanes and lovers of Russian music, Valery Gergiev’s concert performances of the great full-length Russian ballets have been among the highlights of recent Proms seasons. Here he gave us...
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Prom 51: Andris Nelsons conducts Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony
Back for his fourth Prom in as many years, Andris Nelsons brought this Russian sandwich of a concert to a cracking start with the Overture to Glinka’s Pushkin-inspired opera Ruslan...
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Prom 50: Osmo Vänskä & Michael Collins
The current Proms season has made a feature of music by Frederick Delius, the 150th-anniversary of whose birth fell this January, and this programme included a rare revival of his...
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PCM6: Escher String Quartet – Hugh Wood & Debussy
It was gratifying indeed to hear Hugh Wood’s Fourth String Quartet. Wood, here interviewed is unassuming and modest, and retains a youthful manner in his 80th-birthday year. He was happy...
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Prom 49: Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Yeomen of the Guard
No sooner had I reviewed John Wilson’s Philharmonia Orchestra Yeomen of the Guard, at the Royal Festival Hall, than another was announced for the Proms. The Proms has a fine...
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Prom 48: Der Freischütz, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Manfred Symphony
The supernatural loomed large in this London Philharmonic Prom, vividly so in a full-on performance of the Overture to Der Freischütz that condensed all the salient points of the opera....
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PSM4: Goehr, Knussen, Bainbridge
The last of this season’s Proms Saturday Matinees brought a further concert of British music, on this occasion by three composers who are celebrating major birthdays over the course of...
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Prom 47: John Cage Centenary Concert
The John Cage centenary this September was likely to galvanize attention in musical circles, and the BBC has responded with a wealth of events – the centrepiece being this Prom...
Prom 46: Andrew Manze conducts Vaughan Williams’s Symphonies 4, 5 & 6
Neglected works of the British musical renaissance have been a key feature of Roger Wright’s Proms seasons, at long last given their chance to fail as sceptics might put it.Ralph...
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Prom 45: Marin Alsop & São Paulo SO – New World Symphony, Mômoprecóce/Nelson Freire
Maybe the Fanfares should have opened this 'from the Americas' Prom, a brassy male/female self-welcome to the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra. As it was the sullen opening bars of Dvořák’s...
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Prom 44: Ligeti, Berio, Xenakis, Harvey & Andriessen … 4’33” & Live remix
This fascinating and invigorating late-night Prom from the London Sinfonietta had something of a ‘greatest hits’ feel to it, with audience participation at the end in the form of a...
Prom 43: Charles Dutoit conducts Delius, Saint-Saëns & Tchaikovsky
The Proms season here moved from one capital city to another. The First Night regaled us with the cries of street vendors in Elgar’s Cockaigne, a celebration of London. This...
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Prom 42: Susanna Mälkki conducts Prokofiev, Neuwirth & Bartók
The Philharmonia Orchestra often dances on the surface of a piece, favouring crisp textures to the rich cream of a Germanic group. Susanna Mälkki employed this to lovely effect in...