BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Prom 68 Credit BBC Chris Christodoulou 17
Every time opera comes to the Proms in a semi-staging of a summer production, doubts arise about how it will all work, mainly to do with singers being heard and...
Prom 67 credit BBC Chris Christodoulou 4
Are Finnish conductors getting younger? At just 24 Tarmo Peltokoski has already built an impressive CV since graduating from Helsinki’s Sibelius Academy. Coaching from Sakari Oramo, Jukka-Pekka Saraste and Esa-Pekka Salonen,...
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There’s a strong local feel to the first visit by the Proms to one of the country’s finest acoustics, the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham. Anna-Maria Helsing leads the BBC...
PROM 66 Andy Paradise 17
Britain’s only orchestra of Black and ethnically diverse musicians returns to the Proms with music that celebrates its own heritage as well as universal dreams and aspirations. Stewart Goodyear is...
PROM 63 Andy Paradise 12
One of Britain’s best-loved choirs, The Sixteen – under Harry Christophers – returns to the Proms on Choral Day for some of the most serene and spiritual choral works written...
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The dynamic Jason Max Ferdinand Singers has appeared at Washington DC’s Kennedy Center and collaborated with Coldplay and Jacob Collier, who has described the experience as ‘transformative to a life-altering...
Be first to hear pieces composed by the most recent winners of the BBC Young Composer competition, performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra. Mentored by composers Gavin Higgins and Helen...
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Our Proms Choral Day culminates with one of music’s everlasting masterpieces, Handel’s Messiah. The choral movements are where this work’s most exciting, most joyous and most explosive music is to be...
Prom 62 Credit BBC Chris Christodoulou 19
1903-04, revised 1906. 1,950 bars. Deryck Cooke, magisterial Mahlerian of an era, considered the wordless, programme-less Sixth to be Mahler’s “most classical symphony”, the “only” instance in his output of...
Prom 61 Credit BBC Chris Christodoulou 17
On this day after Bruckner's bicentenary, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with their chief conductor, Sir Simon Rattle, appeared for the first time together at the Proms, for the composer's...
Prom 59 credit BBC Chris Christodoulou 12
If Klaus Mäkelä's Debussy/Stravinsky/Berlioz with the Orchestre de Paris the night before was a premier cru Parisien libation [https://www.classicalsource.com/prom/prom-58-debussy-stravinsky-berlioz-orchestre-de-paris-with-klaus-makela/] this early evening Prom from Stéphane Denève was an absorbingly premier...
Prom 60 credit BBC Chris Christodoulou 12
Too late to be officially printed in the programme, Tuesday’s news that Eric Whitacre has been appointed the BBC Singers’ Artist in Residence in its centenary year from immediate effect,...
Prom 58 Credit BBC Chris Christodoulou 32
As the world eagerly turns its gaze to Paris for the 2024 Olympics, Parisian artistry graced London’s Royal Albert Hall in the form of the Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie  under...
PROM 57 Andy Paradise 15
If you thought that the Bank Holiday Proms – bringing back Doctor Who to the Royal Albert Hall after a gap of 11 years – were the only time travelling...
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A sequence of songs and arias for voice and lute, devised by and featuring soprano Nardus Williams, classicist and historian Dame Mary Beard and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny. The performance also...