Jul 29, 2020 | BBC Proms 2020, Guest Contributors
Tuesday 28 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 @ 7.30 p.m. Recorded at Royal Albert Hall on 9 September 2008 The following review was written by Douglas Cooksey attending the concert for The Classical Source; it is republished here with a few small amendments… This second...
Jul 27, 2020 | BBC Proms 2020, Guest Contributors
Monday 27 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 @ 7.30 p.m. Recorded at Royal Albert Hall on 21 August 1989 Guest Writer, Antony Hodgson Beethoven No.2 came early in Roger Norrington’s recorded series of Beethoven Symphonies and did much to awaken listeners to the advantages of...
Jul 27, 2020 | BBC Proms 2020, News
Curator, conductor, orchestrator and musical innovator Jules Buckley is set to have a bigger than ever BBC Proms 2020 season. Having recently signed an exclusive recording deal with Decca Records, for a debut solo album scheduled for release this year, Jules...
Jul 23, 2020 | BBC Proms 2020
Thursday 23 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 @ 7.30 p.m. Recorded at Royal Albert Hall on 30 July 2004 The lights went out during Heldenleben … the Bavarians and Jansons carried on playing. That’s the story of this Prom. And we needed a pick-me-up following the previous...
Jul 21, 2020 | BBC Proms 2020
Tuesday 21 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 @ 7.30 p.m. Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall on 4 September 1989 This was the Prom that introduced The Protecting Veil to the World. I may well be in a minority of one but I found it then (as broadcast) to be over-long (forty...
Jul 19, 2020 | BBC Proms 2020
Sunday 19 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 @ 1 p.m. Recorded at Cadogan Hall on 24 August 2015 (Proms Chamber Music) Jeremy Denk started with a Black Mass, aka Scriabin’s Piano Sonata No.9 – enigmatic music given to sudden dissonant chords and unnerving risings of intensity and...
