BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Renée Fleming
On paper this was an enterprising programme with a substantial helping of Berg and Korngold from Renée Fleming sandwiched between two ‘core’ symphonies that are not too often performed.All too...
Intimate Voices & The Kreutzer Sonata
Although established some 15 years ago, the Henschel Quartet's line-up of three siblings plus a cellist who is now “one of the family” suggests that they have been playing music...
Rozhdestvensky To The Rescue!
For music lovers of a certain age, it is not easy to accept that a whole generation of BBC administrators will have grown up, and no doubt moved on, since...
BBC Symphony Chorus
Although two solo organ pieces (actually, movements from sonatas) leavened this afternoon concert, a sequence of largely unaccompanied choral music ran the danger of not providing sufficient variety of timbre...
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
The National Youth Orchestra’s annual Proms visit found 150 players or so taking part in the Kernis and Shostakovich in a repeat of a programme the orchestra had given in...
Music for Strings
Proms Saturday Matinees are now established as a regular fixture in the Proms season, not least as Cadogan Hall is the ideal venue for performances poised between orchestral and chamber....
Music for Strings
Proms Saturday Matinees are now established as a regular fixture in the Proms season, not least as Cadogan Hall is the ideal venue for performances poised between orchestral and chamber....
Magnus Lindberg’s Clarinet Concerto
Semyon Bychkov is an infrequent visitor to London’s orchestras and so may be forgiven for thinking the worst of the city’s reputation for occasional unbridled violence by wearing what suspiciously...
David Matthews
This Prom brought perhaps the most anticipated premiere of this season. Three years in composing, David Matthews's Sixth Symphony promised to be something of a summation of his achievement thus...
Stele
There was a distinct air of remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall for this Prom. Kurtág’s three-part Stele – composed in memoriam for unnamed persons (although the third, an epic...
Boulez & Birtwistle
Late-night Proms do not (indeed, have never) come more uncompromising than this and it said much for the performers that their input never for a moment flagged over the course...
Tapiola … Ecuatorial … La Mer
Another concert consisting largely of 'Proms Firsts', and a further demonstration of the versatility in programming that Ilan Volkov has shown as Principal Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra....
Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Piano Concerto
The centrepiece of this Prom was Esa-Pekka Salonen's Piano Concerto. His pre-concert discussion offered no music examples, so the idea of a work with a huge and varied frame of...
Polyphony
Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble
This Prom was billed as “continuing the Shakespeare theme”, but there was only a very tenuous connection to the author, courtesy of excerpts from the suite that Fauré compiled from...
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