BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Mendelssohn wrote his First Piano Concerto in 1831 during a visit to Munich, part of an extended tour of Europe and the British Isles that also saw the composition of...
Henry Purcell
The best had been saved for last, a Proms Chamber Music hour of sublime music-making to celebrate Purcell in his 350th-anniversary year. If there is a cavil, it is that...
Messiah
“Tis the Season…”, well, not really, but the nation’s favourite oratorio needs no excuse to be trotted out, and what an odd hybrid this one was! Performances of “Messiah” tend...
The Cunning Little Vixen … Rainforest IV … New World Symphony
This Suite from “The Cunning Little Vixen” is an arrangement by Vaclav Tálich of music from Act One and uses his own orchestration rather than Janáček’s more abrasive original. (Charles...
George Crumb
This exquisite late-night BBC Prom was for George Crumb's 80th-birthday, and was delivered with authority by members of the Nash Ensemble, three singers and (in the opening and closing works)...
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
Anyone who has followed Jonathan Nott’s career will have heard him conduct this music before (in Bamberg, at the Edinburgh Festival, and even in London, where he is too infrequent...
Bacchanale … Jeux … Dialoge
This BBC Prom was an example of misplaced and over-long programming, the concluding Brahms Symphony being performed in a rather routine manner.In stark contrast the concert had opened with an...
Xenakis, Rachmaninov & Shostakovich
Twentieth-century works of wildly differing musical languages were here linked together by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and its Principal Guest Conductor, David Robertson, making for an extremely interesting and stimulating...
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – 2
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Mariss Jansons brought two symphonies to the BBC Proms.Haydn's 'Military' Symphony – one of his London set, and so-named because of the percussion effects in...
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – 1
Dutch orchestras rarely perform Sibelius’s music; perhaps this is because their conductors’ predilection has been for the Finn’s symphonic antipode, Gustav Mahler. That said George Szell made a famous studio...
New Generation Artists [12 concerts]
In a weekend of smiles and fancy footwork, the BBC Proms' innovation shone through this extraordinary set of twelve concerts and a wealth of chamber and instrumental music and intriguing...
Martha Argerich & Charles Dutoit
Charles Dutoit conducted the premiere of Claude Vivier's Orion in 1979. It is clearly a piece close to his heart. Vevier was murdered aged 34 in 1983. The music itself...
Tonhalle Orchester Zürich
Tonhalle Orchester Zürich demonstrates all the qualities one expects of its homeland's watches and countryside: accuracy, elegance, and beauty. There are some of Europe's tallest mountains in that country. Climbing...
Netherlands Wind Ensemble
Obviously one of the best kept secrets of the whole Proms season, given the smallest audience so far this year in the Royal Albert Hall, the Netherlands Wind Ensemble arrived...
Agon … Francesca da Rimini
This BBC Prom marked the culmination of performing all of Stravinsky’s ballet scores and Tchaikovsky’s complete works for piano and orchestra this season.David Robertson’s conducting was assured throughout Stravinsky’s Agon....
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