BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

A selection of French songs from Alice Coote began a new season of Proms Chamber Music recitals for 2012, concentrating primarily on centenary composer Debussy. However the British mezzo avoided...
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It is barely a year since an earlier concert performance of Pelléas et Mélisande (given at the Barbican Centre by Louis Langrée and forces from the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées) demonstrated...
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1956, opens on Broadway. 1958, hits London’s West End. 1964, Lerner & Loewe’s musical is made into a starry film directed by George Cukor with Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison....
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A chinwag of conductors (one imagines some lively chat backstage) – two with the Queen’s sword already on the shoulder and two who are knights-in-waiting – launched BBC Proms 2012,...
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The 117th-Season of BBC Proms has broken box-office records and the Last Night’s opening music paid tribute to the Promenaders. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (Master of the Queen’s Music) was...
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The heralded interventions by Berlioz may have cornered the pre-Prom chatter, but Der Freischütz is still Weber’s show. The original version (1821) helped elevate German Romanticism to the status of...
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An American orchestra, a Swiss conductor ... what better piece to start with than Sibelius’s Finlandia, more of a national anthem for the country than the official one. Still it...
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In a Proms season with understandably its fair share of Liszt and Mahler, why not also a slot devoted to Stan Kenton – the American bandleader whose centenary falls this...
David Robertson rounded off his contribution to this year’s Proms with this wide-ranging concert of British music – taking in an established classic alongside the revival of an early work...
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With its impressive sequence of big-name music directors and extensive foreign touring, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is an institution that has consistently punched above its weight. Manfred Honeck may not...
This Prom was originally planned to include a rare performance of Frankfurt-born Walter Braunfels’s Fantastic Appearances of a Theme by Hector Berlioz, or so the Proms Prospectus for this Pittsburgh...
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Contrasting violin sonatas formed the programme for the last in this year’s Proms Chamber Music series at Cadogan Hall. The established partnership of Christian Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt looked at...
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Sir Colin Davis may need to sit these days, but there was not a hint of frailty in this performance of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, nor in his vision of a...
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The Parisian organist Thierry Escaich is the titulaire at St-Etienne-du-Mont, the only church in Paris, apparently, with a screen between nave and choir (a magnificent and bizarre Renaissance creation flanked...
Quite a lot of time in this lengthy Prom was taken up by platform changes – first between the large forces of the Elgar and the chamber ensemble of the...