BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Paul Lewis Beethoven (1) [BBCSO/Bělohlávek]
In Proms seasons of yesteryear a tradition of “Beethoven Nights” developed. This year that custom has been revived with two such evenings. The first of these (the second is on...
Where the Word Ends … An Alpine Symphony
The high-profile opening weekend of this year's BBC Proms may be over, but there was no sign of a falling-off of attendance judging by the near-capacity house for the WDR...
Liverpool Phil/Petrenko Trpčeski – Manfred
Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic have been making a huge impact on audiences on Merseyside, and much further afield. This Proms appearance attracted a full house, and expectations...
Mark Padmore & Imogen Cooper
The first of the BBC Proms Chamber Music lunchtime recitals for 2010 at Cadogan Hall acted as a celebration for the bicentenary of the birth of Robert Schumann, and more...
Simon Boccanegra [Plácido Domingo]
Completing the operatically grandiose opening weekend of the 2010 BBC Proms season were Antonio Pappano and Royal Opera House forces in a semi-staged performance of “Simon Boccanegra”, following a run...
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg [Bryn Terfel]
The casting of Bryn Terfel as Hans Sachs in Welsh National Opera’s production of Wagner’s comic-opera made this concert a hot ticket even before the company’s performances in Cardiff and...
First Night of the Proms – Mahler 8
There can be few more exhilarating starts to a Proms season than the opening chord of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony (the so-called "Symphony of a Thousand") and the massed sound of...
The BBC Proms: A History
From 1895 to TodayRobert Newman and Henry Wood staged the very first of “Mr Newman’s Promenade Concerts” (the event we now know as The BBC Proms) over 100 years ago,...
The Last Night
As a finale to one of the best BBC Proms seasons in recent years, this Last Night was probably one of the best, too. Dispelling with Henry Wood’s Sea-Songs and...
Silk Road Ensemble & Yo-Yo Ma
Silk Road Ensemble’s second visit to the Proms with musical director Yo-Yo Ma marked its tenth anniversary, a decade that has seen the Ensemble grow in musical stature, with core...
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (2)
The second of the Vienna Philharmonic’s two BBC Proms this season proved to be an absolute highlight. Zubin Mehta (born 1936), now associated with the Vienna Philharmonic for nearly fifty...
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (1)
Juggler in Paradise
Violin concertos with eye-catching and imagination-stimulating nicknames seem all the rage at the moment. Only the night before BBC Proms had presented Peter Maxwell Davies’s ‘Fiddler on the Shore’ (his...
Max at 75 (2)
On the day itself, this second, more personal, celebration of Peter Maxwell Davies’s 75th-birthday examined the composer’s close affinity with Orkney, his home for nigh on forty years. It also...
Max at 75 (1)
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies turned 75 on this day and was joined by Mendelssohn, whose 200th-anniversary is celebrated this year.Maxwell Davies’s latest concerto, like Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor,...
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