BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Philharmonia Orchestra
Surely no one would blame Londoners for staying at home and away from the incessant travel risks. Well, this conventional programme attracted a huge audience, a sell-out for Mozart and...
A Scotch Bestiary
A curious concert, following another unsettling day for Londoners, which perhaps explained a smaller than expected audience in the Royal Albert Hall. The programming was curious too – in effect...
Gardiner Haydn
This well-attended late-night Prom included the remarkably affective Motet “Insanae et vanae curae”, written in 1784 but revised eleven years later with a different text, and the ‘Nelson’ Mass, so-called...
Turbulent Landscapes
Although resident in the United States for over three decades now, Thea Musgrave has retained a certain presence in British musical life – not least at the Proms, where her...
Michael Berkeley Premiere / A London Symphony
Michael Berkeley has written a score that is more a symphony than a concerto. Although there is much variety of timbre in the virtuoso passages, there is also an overriding...
Die Walküre
The Proms presentation of Wagner's Ring cycle over four seasons continued with the 'First Day' of the tetralogy. Being at once the most humanly involving instalment, in which actions andtheir...
Proms Chamber Music – 1 (Sir Thomas Allen)
Ten years since Proms Chamber Music started, the success has been rewarded with a move from the enclosed confines of the Victoria & Albert Museum’s Lecture Theatre to the bright,...
The Fairy Queen
Prom 3 offered a chance to hear Purcell’s instrumental and vocal music for “The Fairy Queen” – an adaptation of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” – separated from its theatrical...
Gilbert & Sullivan – Mackerras
Sir Charles Mackerras’s relationship with the operettas of Gilbert & Sullivan has been a long and profitable one. Although he is mainly celebrated for his tireless promotion of Czech music,...
The First Night – A Child of Our Time
This concert was dedicated to the “memory of the victims of the London bombings, 7 July 2005”, and if there was a somewhat muted atmosphere amongst the audience, rather than...
Thousands to watch the Proms on big screens this Friday
Thousands are expected to watch First Night of the BBC Proms on big screens across the country this coming Friday 15 July 2005. Thirty-seven of the world’s top orchestras, three...
The Last Night of the Proms
And so to the Last Night of the Proms, one of our few remaining national rituals, no longer just a concert, more a media event. Pandering to that peculiarly English...
BBC Philharmonic
The most consistently satisfying performance came at the beginning of the concert. Dvořák’s musical depiction of an Erben ballad brought to vivid life by Gianandrea Noseda and the BBC Philharmonic...
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
This year sees the tercentenary of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s death, and London has already been graced with many performances of the French master’s works. Coincidentally, Les Arts Florissants are celebrating its...
Psappha
On the very day of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s 70th-birthday, the Proms offered a celebration with this late-night performance of works from his 1960s’ ‘expressionist’ phase together with a very...
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