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Bartók Roots @ BBC Proms 2021 – BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra – Ilan Volkov, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Folktone Band.

Aug 28, 2021 | BBC Proms 2021, Concert Reviews

Saturday, August 28, 2021, Royal Albert Hall, London Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 from 7.30 p.m. Having conducted Thursday’s Prom, Ilan Volkov stayed on to replace Thomas Dausgaard for an unaltered Bartók concert, including the indigenous Folktone Band (violin,...

Berliner Philharmoniker – Kirill Petrenko conducts Weber, Hindemith and Schubert [live webcast]

Aug 28, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) Friday, August 27, 2021 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Evoking Furtwängler’s ‘warhorse’ days, the Berliner Philharmoniker’s 21-22 season (Kirill Petrenko’s...

BBC Proms 2021 – BBC Symphony Orchestra – Sakari Oramo conducts John Foulds, Charlotte Bray & Malcolm Arnold | Timothy Ridout plays William Walton’s Viola Concerto.

Aug 27, 2021 | BBC Proms 2021, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Friday, August 27, 2021, Royal Albert Hall, London Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 from 7.30 p.m. It’s only right that Malcolm Arnold, in his centenary year, should have one of his Nine Symphonies included during this Proms season, but his contemporary, Robert Simpson,...

BBC Proms 2021 – BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra – Ilan Volkov conducts George Lewis & Beethoven | Lucy Crowe sings Ah! perfido.

Aug 26, 2021 | BBC Proms 2021, Concert Reviews

Thursday, August 26, 2021, Royal Albert Hall, London Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 from 7.30 p.m. The Prom opened with the premiere of a BBC commission, Minds in Flux by George Lewis (born 1952 in Chicago, pictured), for orchestra and live electronics. Atmospheric,...

BBC Proms 2021 – London Symphony Orchestra – Simon Rattle conducts Stravinsky Symphonies.

Aug 22, 2021 | BBC Proms 2021, Concert Reviews

Sunday, August 22, 2021, Royal Albert Hall, London Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 from 7.30 p.m., and shown on BBC Four from 8 o’clock The evening started with the ‘sounding together’ of Symphonies of Wind Instruments (original 1920 version, in memoriam Debussy) given...

BBC Proms 2021 – Marmen Quartet @ Cadogan Hall – Joseph Haydn’s Lark & Robert Simpson’s First.

Aug 16, 2021 | BBC Proms 2021, Concert Reviews

Robert Simpson (1921-97) Monday, August 16, 2021, Cadogan Hall, London Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 from 1 o’clock This lunchtime gig was tweeted into action by Haydn’s Opus 64/5 D-major String Quartet, a ‘Lark’ of a piece, the Marmen Quartet marching jovially and...