BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Silk Road Ensemble & Yo-Yo Ma
Silk Road Ensemble’s second visit to the Proms with musical director Yo-Yo Ma marked its tenth anniversary, a decade that has seen the Ensemble grow in musical stature, with core...
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (2)
The second of the Vienna Philharmonic’s two BBC Proms this season proved to be an absolute highlight. Zubin Mehta (born 1936), now associated with the Vienna Philharmonic for nearly fifty...
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (1)
Juggler in Paradise
Violin concertos with eye-catching and imagination-stimulating nicknames seem all the rage at the moment. Only the night before BBC Proms had presented Peter Maxwell Davies’s ‘Fiddler on the Shore’ (his...
Max at 75 (2)
On the day itself, this second, more personal, celebration of Peter Maxwell Davies’s 75th-birthday examined the composer’s close affinity with Orkney, his home for nigh on forty years. It also...
Max at 75 (1)
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies turned 75 on this day and was joined by Mendelssohn, whose 200th-anniversary is celebrated this year.Maxwell Davies’s latest concerto, like Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor,...
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...
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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...
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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...