BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Bax, Rachmaninov & Vaughan Williams
A compact and well-linked concert: Ralph Vaughan Williams dedicated his Fourth Symphony to Arnold Bax; Bax’s music has its Russian characteristics; and Rachmaninov played some of Bax’s piano music (I...
A Prom from 1958
A feature of Roger Wright’s first season as Proms director is the recreation of concerts from the distant past (the second being Prom 48, which focuses on the first performance...
Tallis Scholars
This late-night Prom gives the lie to our preoccupation that we live in uniquely complex musical times. Cast back 500 years and the word “complex” achieves its true meaning.Planned so...
Stuttgart Radio Symphony/Roger Norrington
Sir Roger Norrington has form in performing a British symphony with his German orchestra at the Proms. A few years ago he played Vaughan Williams’s A Pastoral Symphony. Now it...
Messiaen & Saint-Saëns from Paris
This year's Proms’ focus on Messiaen's centenary was marked in fine style by the first half of this satisfying programme. Olivier Latry – titular organist at Notre-Dame in Paris and...
Pierre-Laurent Aimard Night Fantasies
This was the first of the eight Proms Chamber Music recitals for this season – given once again in the acoustically welcoming (if access-unfriendly!) environment of Cadogan Hall.Pierre-Laurent Aimard, making...
Folk Day 2
Ringing the changes for the fifth time in as many concerts at the beginning of BBC Proms 2008, Roger Wright made a brief appearance before BBC Radio 3 rejoined the...
Folk Day 1
This was the first of two Royal Albert Hall concerts on this day marking “Folk Day” at the BBC Proms and made the best out of a potentially fraught, not...
NKQ – Nigel Kennedy Quintet
Remaining in the Royal Albert Hall for extra time, Nigel Kennedy, well-known as an Aston Villa supporter, presented a selection from his recent “A Very Nice Album”. As on the...
Nigel Kennedy plays Elgar’s Violin Concerto
Given plenty of notice that Vernon Handley would not be able to conduct this Prom due to ill-health, Paul Daniel was able to undertake Handley’s inimitable programme unchanged.The Garden of...
The First Night
This first concert of BBC Proms 2008 (the first under the control of Roger Wright) was an overture for the season as a whole. Not only did the programme include...
BBC Proms 2008 On Television
New primetime Saturday nights for BBC TWO Regular live relays on BBC FOUR All televised Proms available on demand on the BBC iPlayerFor the first time BBC TWO has a...
Somm issues First Night of the 1943 Proms
Issued on the eve of the 2008 Season of BBC Proms, Somm has released a recording of the First Night of the 1943 Season conducted by Sir Henry Wood. To...
Proms in the Park
Hailed as “the world’s greatest classical music festival” on the BBC Proms website it is difficult to see how this “Proms in the Park” concert fits this description. At £23...
The Last Night of the Proms 2007
A first ‘Last Night’ and a last ‘Last Night', for Jiří Bělohlávek and Nicholas Kenyon respectively: the former paying tribute to the latter in his brief but affecting speech. Not...
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