BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

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Billy the Kid … Century Rolls … Doctor Atomic Symphony
John Adams’s now-regular visits to the BBC Symphony Orchestra have become key events for his enthusiastic band of admirers and less key for the larger audience – here Adams was...
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Powder Her Face … Duke Bluebeard’s Castle
A Prom of unequal halves, in terms of duration at least. The 18 minutes of music in the first half made a distinctive impression even so, with Webern's fastidious orchestral...
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Soloists of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra
In 2003 Claudio Abbado and Michael Haefliger established the Lucerne Festival Orchestra as a platform for established musicians from around the world to come together and make music. As well...
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Simón Bolívar National Youth Orchestra of Venezuela
I suspect that after the debut of the Simón Bolívar National Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, Proms may have to be categorised like hurricanes. Certainly, this Prom was Category 5.From the...
LSO & VBE
What we lost in the form of the injured Maxim Vengerov, who was due to play the Viola Tango Rock Concerto by Benjamin Yusupov, with the composer conducting, was more...
The Apostles
It was in Birmingham that Elgar’s “The Dream of Gerontius” (1900), “The Apostles” (1903) and “The Kingdom” (1906) were first performed. The first of these is not an oratorio, said...
The English Concert
Trevor Pinnock founded The English Consort 34 years ago. It is about to inaugurate Harry Bicket as its third Artistic Director this September. During this time, it has built up...
Sebastian im Traum … The Rite of Spring
An evening of Proms Firsts old and new with two recent works framed by classics of the modern repertoire. Good that the opportunity was taken to perform the original 1909...
John Drummond Premieres
This late-night Prom was in homage to the late Sir John Drummond, Proms Director between 1985 and 1995, bucked the trend of recent such Proms by being far less well...
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Just when you thought the Morecambe and Wise connection to Grieg’s Piano Concerto (“by Grieg”) might have been fading (it was, after all, from a Christmas Show in 1971), here...
Sibelius From Lahti
This concert was a rather grand affair and a long one too; Sibelius played by one of the finest and most idiomatic of Finnish orchestras, the Lahti Symphony, under its...
Marcus Roberts Trio
This concert should have been a roaring success: the Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra together with Grammy-nominated soloists playing the music of their compatriots – with live TV...
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Paavo Järvi is a collector of orchestras – he is Music Director of both the Cincinnati Symphony and Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Artistic Adviser of the Estonian National Symphony (Järvi was...
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Philip Langridge & David Owen Norris
Philip Langridge is now, at 67, a veteran singer, after a finely-judged career, initially as a concert singer, then on the operatic stage, where his intense emotional identification with the...
Götterdämmerung
As the portentous chords sound at the start of “Götterdämmerung” (immaculate in both ensemble and intonation on this occasion), one has the sense of embarking upon an epic voyage. So,...