BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Scènes de ballet … Mahler 6
This fourth visit by the BBC Philharmonic to this year’s Proms was the first to feature its Chief Conductor, Gianandrea Noseda. There was no obvious theme linking the three works,...
Harrison Birtwistle at 75
While 1934 has already been examined by this year's BBC Proms as the year English music lost Delius, Holst and Elgar, it was also a year in which it gained...
Mendelssohn … (S)irató … Romeo and Juliet
Thierry Fischer gave the first movement of Mendelssohn's First Symphony power and passion and followed it with a flowing Andante. The original Minuet followed (at the London performance in May...
Michael Jarrell & Berlioz’s Symphonie funèbre et triomphale
For this Prom, Thierry Fischer put the BBC National Orchestra of Wales (of which he has been Principal Conductor for three seasons) through an ambitious three-part programme focused mainly on...
Belcea Quartet
This recital found an imaginative way of incorporating two of the four Proms 'anniversary' composers. One creator relatively scarce in appearances this year is Benjamin Britten, whose second published string...
From Trumpet
At first the 15-minute From Trumpet, Ben Foskett’s response to a BBC commission, seemed like a study in colour and timbre, very specific, and thus not helped by someone’s mobile-phone...
A Celebration of Classic MGM Film Musicals
Though rain poured for the entire day, inside the Royal Albert Hall Californian sunshine, and that 'feel-good' factor, was omnipresent. This was a concert of some of the music from...
EVOLUTION! A Darwin-inspired extravaganza for kids
This Saturday morning extravaganza (repeated the following morning) fulfilled the decade-long tradition of a special children's Prom. The overriding ideas have not changed and nor has the excellence of presentation...
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
BBC Proms is exploring Stravinsky’s complete ballet music this season and found an ideal match in Pulcinella and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The music positively danced...
Hallé – Berlioz & Mendelssohn
The Hallé's programme presented two composers who, as the programme note pointed out, were like chalk and cheese – wild, impulsive Berlioz; thoroughly schooled, restrained romantic Mendelssohn – and Sir...
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
In addition to being professor of clarinet at the Freiburg Musikhochschule, a professional performing musician and an acclaimed composer, Jörg Widmann is a compelling public speaker. In response to Tom...
Bach Motets/John Eliot Gardiner
This late-night Prom drew a surprisingly large audience to the Royal Albert Hall. Surprising because of the start time (10.15) and because of the slightly obscure nature of the music.J....
Orion over Farne … The Firebird
This season's BBC Proms includes Tchaikovsky's four works for piano and orchestra (three concertos and the Concert Fantasia) – played by Stephen Hough – and Stravinsky's ballet scores, of which...
The Bartered Bride … Dance Suite … Petrushka
This was a cunningly planned programme – rare Martinů and lesser-played Bartók – book-ended by arguably the most famous of all overtures and one of Stravinsky's most popular scores. The...
Susan Graham & Malcolm Martineau
Susan Graham and Malcolm Martineau have been touring a comprehensive recital of French mélodie, one of their ports of call being Wigmore Hall in February 2008, and the whole can...
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