BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Brass Day 2
Ziggurat, says Judith Bingham, is a condensed depiction of the building of Etemenaki, the Babylonian temple whose name means ‘The Foundation of Heaven upon Earth’. The seven sections, denoting the...
Brass Day 1
In 2005 the BBC Proms season had "Violins!!" and last year it was "The Voice". In 2007 it was "Brass Day". This afternoon’s concert was a rather long affair that...
Macbeth … Les Illuminations … Inextinguishable Symphony
It’s quite rare that an encore is also a premiere, but that’s what happened at the end of this Hallé Prom. That an extra was planned was self-evident from the...
A Song of Summer
An evening of 'Proms Firsts' – all three works were given their world premieres at the Proms – and an evening of British music into the bargain. Nominally Delius's last...
Collegium Musicum 90
Richard Hickox is ideally suited to this repertoire. He founded the chorus and orchestra of Collegium Musicum 90, which focuses on the performance of Baroque and Classical music.It was pleasing...
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
This was essentially Marin Alsop’s evening. Hailing from the distinguished pedigree of New York, Yale and the Juilliard School, she makes a determined and vigorous conductor. She has clearly won...
Macbeth
Glyndebourne’s Proms visit this year was a semi-staged version of Richard Jones’s new production of Verdi’s “Macbeth”, which did not meet with universal critical acclaim when it was unveiled in...
The Seasons
There is a great musical thunderstorm in ‘Summer’ of Haydn’s “The Seasons”, but not one that causes extensive flooding and general misery. Given the rather non-seasonal weather the UK has...
James Ehnes & Eduard Laurel
In this intriguingly and intimately entwined programme, two E minor violin sonatas framed a BBC commission by American composer Aaron Jay Kernis. Given that the second movement of this new...
Vexations and Devotions
Even with the expert David Robertson in charge, last Tuesday’s Prom found the BBC Symphony Orchestra biting off more than it could chew with an over-ambitious programme of complex new...
French Favourites
A capacity house for the second French programme in two nights from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and its Principal Conductor Thierry Fischer.Principal flautist Andrew Nicholson made a beautiful...
Blue Peter Jamboree! (What Polly & Olivia thought)
This was the first of two Blue Peter Proms and despite the release of the final instalment of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series there were some muggle children who could...
Blue Peter Jamboree!
What an exciting and riveting Prom this proved to be – if one happened to be under the age of 13, a parent accompanying a youngster or someone engrossed in...
The Shadows of Time
This attractive programme, full of correspondences between three utterly distinctive French composers – and not least in closeness of chronology: Berlioz died in 1869 (when only in his mid-sixties), Ravel...
Ilya Murometz
The first of several visits to this year’s Proms by the BBC Philharmonic, here under Chief Guest Conductor, Vassily Sinaisky.Arvo Pärt’s Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten, written in 1977 in...
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