BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

The English Concert
Trevor Pinnock founded The English Consort 34 years ago. It is about to inaugurate Harry Bicket as its third Artistic Director this September. During this time, it has built up...
Sebastian im Traum … The Rite of Spring
An evening of Proms Firsts old and new with two recent works framed by classics of the modern repertoire. Good that the opportunity was taken to perform the original 1909...
John Drummond Premieres
This late-night Prom was in homage to the late Sir John Drummond, Proms Director between 1985 and 1995, bucked the trend of recent such Proms by being far less well...
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Just when you thought the Morecambe and Wise connection to Grieg’s Piano Concerto (“by Grieg”) might have been fading (it was, after all, from a Christmas Show in 1971), here...
Sibelius From Lahti
This concert was a rather grand affair and a long one too; Sibelius played by one of the finest and most idiomatic of Finnish orchestras, the Lahti Symphony, under its...
Marcus Roberts Trio
This concert should have been a roaring success: the Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra together with Grammy-nominated soloists playing the music of their compatriots – with live TV...
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Paavo Järvi is a collector of orchestras – he is Music Director of both the Cincinnati Symphony and Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Artistic Adviser of the Estonian National Symphony (Järvi was...
Philip Langridge & David Owen Norris
Philip Langridge is now, at 67, a veteran singer, after a finely-judged career, initially as a concert singer, then on the operatic stage, where his intense emotional identification with the...
Götterdämmerung
As the portentous chords sound at the start of “Götterdämmerung” (immaculate in both ensemble and intonation on this occasion), one has the sense of embarking upon an epic voyage. So,...
European Union Youth Orchestra
The European Union Youth Orchestra’s “Summer Tour Programme” this year consists of Brahms and Sibelius conducted by Sir Colin Davis (with concerts in Luxembourg, Rostock, London and Bolzano) and Berg...
An Evening with Nitin Sawhney and Friends
Rather like the short boy sentenced to be sitting permanently cross-legged at the front of the school photograph, or the Swiss tourist standing interminably in the ‘Non EU’ line at...
… unless I open the door …
A programme that juxtaposed the latest work of an upcoming Welsh composer with the final piece of Rachmaninov and, as the concert’s centrepiece, a concerto from Walton’s early years that...
From Bards to Blues – Dame Cleo & Sir John
Two of this country’s most celebrated jazz musicians, Dame Cleo Laine and Sir John Dankworth both celebrate their eightieth birthdays this year, John in September, Cleo in October. They appeared...
Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki formed Bach Collegium Japan in 1990, aiming to introduce Japanese audiences to period-instrument performances of great works of the Baroque era. The group has made an international name...
Sinfonia da Requiem & Mahler 10
When Benjamin Britten completed his Sinfonia da Requiem in 1940, Mahler’s Tenth Symphony was known as an unfinished work that would probably remain so. Mahler’s widow, Alma, had published her...
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