BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

7286 1
LSO/Haitink Mahler 9
A wonderful occasion, one enhanced by no applause between movements and an appreciative silence at the end of the work before a very enthusiastic reception broke out. Bernard Haitink, recently...
The Cardinall’s Musick
The 500th-anniversary of the coronation of King Henry VIII probably does not figure too highly in the memory when set against the crop of births and deaths of the major...
7285 1
Partenope
This is a tale of a warrior-queen with three suitors, written around the voices of Anna Strada and Antonio Bernacchi, and only recently given a fascinating production by English National...
7284 1
Stan Tracey Orchestra – Genesis
Some 23 years since writing his acclaimed suite for big band, Genesis, Stan Tracey made his Proms debut (a late-night gig) at the age of 82. Stan isn’t as sprightly...
7283 1
The Creation
The libretto of Haydn’s oratorio “The Creation” has a fascinating story attached to it, one that continues even to this Proms performance. The was the first choral work to be...
7282 1
The First Night
Fireworks, an ode and a hymn of praise were just three of seven pieces chosen to raise the curtain on the 115th BBC Proms season. Rather than programme a single...
BBC Proms 2009 Start Today Friday 17 July!
BBC Proms 200917 July-12 SeptemberFor the ninth successive year The Classical Source will bring you reviews of this very special music festival, the 115th season.The BBC Proms are broadcast live...
Nick Breckenfield’s Proms Round Up
Well there it is. Another musical summer at an end! From that vantage of hindsight, I look back on a supremely successful BBC Proms season. In April, it certainly looked...
The Last Night
The last night of a season of 164 events spanning an eight-week period, or the Last Night, a concert in celebration of the 2008 series of BBC Proms concerts that...
6257 1
Parsifal … For the Victims of Hiroshima … Choral Symphony
Finding music that complements and enhances our understanding of the ‘traditional’ Proms performance of Beethoven’s ‘Choral’ Symphony is never easy. In choosing works that take us on a spiritual journey...
6254 1
Orchestre de Paris
Coming at the tail-end of one the most sensational Proms seasons in living memory, and following three consecutive sell-out nights, it was perhaps inevitable that Orchestre de Paris’s less eye-catching...
6255 1
Sinfonia antartica … Pléïdes … The Planets
British music in general, and that by Vaughan Williams in particular, has been a prominent feature of this years Proms. Neither has the European avant-garde been absent and it was...
6250 1
Chicago Symphony/Haitink – 2 … Mozart & Shostakovich
This second Chicago Symphony Orchestra Prom felt like a long evening, which may have been due to Mozart's C minor Piano Concerto and Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony both being of unremitting...
6244 1
Chicago Symphony/Haitink – 1 … Chicago Remains & Mahler 6
In his laid-back talk with Andrew McGregor, Mark-Anthony Turnage spoke of his influences being Stockhausen, Xenakis and Henze and the encouragement given him by Oliver Knussen. Turnage stated that the...
6249 1
Capriccio … La bonne chanson … Sad Steps
Once again, demonstrating the popularity of Proms Chamber Music, Cadogan Hall was well attended for a varied programme including the world premiere of Huw Watkins’s Sad Steps.The ‘Prelude’, scored for...