BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
In a brochure separate from the ‘normal’ Proms programme, Alan Rusbridger, Chairman of the National Youth Orchestra, and using the words of Gianandrea Noseda (who conducted the NYO earlier in...
Academy of Ancient Music
This was one of the first occasions to get acquainted with the Academy of Ancient Music under its new leader, founder Christopher Hogwood having left the post after nearly 35...
Dimi Mint Abba & Radio Tarifa
An enthusiastic audience greeted this World Music double-bill, now a regular (if arguably token-gesture) fixture in the Proms schedules, which catches artists who had been at WOMAD in Reading the...
RSNO Fantastique
Having previously conducted “Così fan tutte” for Royal Opera, Stéphane Denève came to this Prom to make what was probably his London concert debut. Bringing two works (the Berlioz and...
Circulating Ocean
It is surprising that the music of Toshio Hosokawa (50 last year) has not made greater headway in the UK, as his fastidiously wrought but accessible music ought to have...
P & C 6
The BBC Symphony Orchestra was here reunited with one of its previous Chief Conductors (and now Conductor Laureate).Prokofiev’s ever-popular Classical Symphony was completed in 1917, a productive year in the...
Voices
Whilst this year’s Proms have rightly if somewhat predictably celebrated Mozart’s 250th-birthday and Shostakovitch’s centenary, the 80th-birthday of Hans Werner Henze has thankfully not gone unnoticed – and he does...
Alexander’s Feast
Andrew Manze has unearthed quite a peculiarity for his appearance at this year’s Proms, presenting a version of Handel’s "Alexander’s Feast" arranged by no less an admirer than Mozart. Commissioned...
Shostakovich 8
The BBC Philharmonic has been busy in the Shostakovich centenary, sharing a survey of all fifteen symphonies with the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester earlier this year. In Vassily Sinaisky, the...
Royal String Quartet
Having appeared in part of one of last year’s Proms Chamber Music recitals (accompanying Sir Thomas Allen in Barber’s “Dover Beach”), the Royal String Quartet from Warsaw – BBC Young...
A Haydn Mass & A Schubert Symphony
A concert completely at home in the Royal Albert Hall, Haydn’s great “Missa Sancti Bernardi con Offida”, better known as “Heiligmesse”, filling the first half and Schubert’s vast C major...
The Voice II
Prom 20 (The Voice I) was a triumph, but Prom 21 (The Voice II) was more like the curate’s egg. Parts, like the Wagner prelude, were ghastly. Parts, like Prokofiev’s...
The Voice I
Following on from last year’s “Violins”, the Proms this time celebrated “The Voice” over two concerts – with choirs large and small and ‘The Rabble’, a chorus of enthusiastic novices.The...
Serious Songs and Heldenleben
Sad to report that for this concert the ‘prommers’ abandoned the Royal Albert Hall in droves. The advantage was that those who did come listened ‘properly’ – not providing a...
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
This was the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra’s first London appearance with music director Jonathan Nott (appointed in 2000) following acclaimed appearance at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2003 and last year....
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