BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

In a generous programme running more than a third of its specified length of an hour, the Elias String Quartet included the world premiere of Sally Beamish’s third string quartet....
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Of the four most-performed musical Requiem masses – those by Mozart, Verdi, Fauré and Britten – Verdi’s covers the extremes of dread, human supplication and cosmic judgment. There is a...
This Sunday morning concert was a repeat performance of the previous night's Human Planet Prom and explored three activities of the BBC: the TV show Human Planet (which was screened...
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After what me might call BBC-branded Proms, usually aimed at the younger range of the spectrum – Blue Peter, Doctor Who and the Evolution Prom – the 2011 season turned...
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This was a sound-bite concert at times, Debussy’s Images pour orchestre unhelpfully split asunder. Much better to have started with Alborada del gracioso, then played the Falla, and ended the...
The lighter side of Sibelius’s musical art opened this BBC Prom. Mark Elder and his Hallé musicians breathed revealing life into the second set of Scènes historiques, depicting a hunt,...
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Dvořák’s Cello Concerto has been performed twenty-four times at the BBC Proms but this was a first complete outing for Smetana’s Má vlast. Libor Pešek got closest in 1989, offering...
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Just two days before this late-night Prom, the Royal Albert Hall rang to the sound of 1,000-plus performers; this particular Tuesday night the huge stage attracted just five, gathered to...
For its second BBC Prom, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Myung-Whun Chung welcomed the brothers Capuçon. Written just a few years after his Violin Concerto, Brahms’s Double Concerto of...
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For Pascal Dusapin, BBC Proms are proving to be like the proverbial buses – his first two performances at these concerts coming within ten days of each other. This Prom...
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Proudly announced as a first for BBC Proms, Mahan Esfahani’s harpsichord recital at Cadogan Hall, the first of eight Proms Chamber Music concerts on a Monday lunchtime, contained a work...
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It is fair to say that far more people know about Havergal Brian’s Gothic Symphony (1919-27) than will ever have heard it. Long mythical in its inaccessibility, it was finally...
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Organ recitals are a regular feature at the BBC Proms, enabling this most impressive of instruments to unfurl its technical and expressive possibilities to the furthest reaches of the Royal...
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William Tell was the last of Rossini’s thirty-nine operas, written at the age of 37. It marked a distinctive break from his former operatic style. Written to a French libretto...
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A Roger Wrightian sense of humour paired Brahms and Liszt together – cheers guys – to help open BBC Proms 2011. Greater inebriation was needed in Academic Festival Overture, a...