BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Kurt Masur 80th-Birthday Concert
This day marked Kurt Masur’s 80th-birthday and culminated in a Proms concert that united the two orchestras that Masur currently heads up – as Music Director of Orchestre National de...
Striggio in 60 Parts
For a late-night Prom this was deeply impressive. The size of the audience, that is: about double the number who attended the earlier Prom. Surely, in statistics alone, this was...
Substratum … The Age of Anxiety … Ives 4
The BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Californian-born Principal Guest Conductor David Robertson last year received the ASCAP Morton Gould Award for Innovative Programming for his work with the St Louis SO and...
Berio & Rossini
This Prom coupled very different works by two great Italian composers.Berio’s Sinfonia was given it UK premiere at the Proms, in 1969, and is most famous for its longest movement,...
Alice Coote & Graham Johnson
This was the first of this season’s Proms Chamber Music recitals at Cadogan Hall. There were some administrative problems concerning the validity of Royal Albert Hall season tickets but I...
Rameau-a-go-go
The Proms always springs surprises, and this one made an early bid to be one of the most amazing by welcoming not only one of Britain’s most popular and successful...
Music From Great British Films
This Promenade Concert celebrates the 60th-anniversary of the British Academy of Film & Television Arts and covered British film music from the 1940s to the present day and how things...
Inspired by Shakespeare
No sooner has the Proms started in the Royal Albert Hall, but the newest strand to the Proms brand (incepted last year) – Saturday Matinees at Cadogan Hall – also...
The First Night of the Proms
Another year, another Proms season. "Its déjà-vu all over again", as Yogi Berra, the baseball player, famously said. The first concert of the BBC's 80th Proms season got off to...
BBC Proms: Tristan Jakob-Hoff’s Top 10 Selection
The BBC Proms begin on Friday 13 July – spooky! Tristan Jakob-Hoff makes a personal selection from the 84 concerts…Proms 24 & 26 (31 July & 1 August): Ilan Volkov...
The Last Night
And so to the 112th Last Night of the Proms – a record-breaking season with 34 of the 72 concerts sold out (it would have been 35 out of 73,...
Mozart & Mackerras
A Proms season in which Mozart features so prominently would not be complete without the presence of Sir Charles Mackerras, whose insights into this most ubiquitous of classical composers are...
Bruch No.1 & Shostakovich 10
Max Bruch's First Violin Concerto is the work by which the composer is remembered, in spite of a corpus that includes two other violin concertos, several concertante works for violin...
Resurrection Symphony
Mahler completed his monumental Second Symphony in 1894, and revised it two years later, and continued to make changes. (These are now published in Gilbert Kaplan’s Critical Edition of the...
Shostakovich & Rachmaninov
A consensus performance often materialises for often-played works. The audience comes to know how the piece ‘should’ sound. Playing and interpretation, even if energetic, become automatic. A ‘new’ interpretation is...
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