BBC Proms 2021 | Colin's Column

Sakari Oramo conducts the Last Night of BBC Proms 2021, with Ksenija Sidorova & Stuart Skelton.

Sep 11, 2021 | BBC Proms 2021, Concert Reviews

September the Eleventh, Royal Albert Hall, live on BBC Radio 3, and also shown on BBC One and BBC Two – I indulged all three at one time or another (nothing synchronised though) – and opening with a likeable new work (details a click away at foot), a mix of vision and...

BBC Proms 2021 – Pavel Kolesnikov plays Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations, BWV988.

Sep 10, 2021 | BBC Proms 2021, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Friday, September 10, 2021, Royal Albert Hall, London Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 from 7.30 p.m. JSB’s ‘Aria and thirty variations’ found Pavel Kolesnikov in whimsical form at times, giving the impression of extemporisation, a nudge here, a stab there, a teasing...

BBC Proms 2021 – Proms Festival Orchestra – Mark Wigglesworth conducts Festive Shostakovich & the Fifth Mahler.

Sep 8, 2021 | BBC Proms 2021, Concert Reviews

Wednesday, September 8, 2021, Royal Albert Hall, London Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 from 7.30 p.m. Made up entirely of versatile freelance musicians (so badly affected work-wise during the many months of Covid restrictions), the debut of the Proms Festival Orchestra...

BBC Proms 2021 – Hallé – Mark Elder conducts Unsuk Chin & Camille Saint-Saëns | Benjamin Grosvenor plays Beethoven.

Sep 7, 2021 | BBC Proms 2021, Concert Reviews

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) Tuesday, September 7, 2021, Royal Albert Hall, London Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 from 7.30 p.m. The concert opened with Unsuk Chin’s subito con forza (2020, UK premiere), Beethoven-related, opening with a jangling take on the...

BBC Proms 2021 – Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – Domingo Hindoyan conducts Grace-Evangeline Mason, Richard Strauss & Paul Hindemith, and Sheku Kanneh-Mason plays Dvořák’s Cello Concerto.

Sep 5, 2021 | BBC Proms 2021, Concert Reviews

Sunday, September 5, 2021, Royal Albert Hall, London Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 from 7.30 p.m. Domingo Hindoyan (newly succeeding Vasily Petrenko as the Liverpool Philharmonic’s chief conductor) opened Dvořák’s Cello Concerto with much promise – balancing strength...

BBC Proms 2021 – Sinfonia of London – John Wilson conducts Johann Strauss II & Ravel, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Symphony – Francesca Chiejina performs Alban Berg’s Seven Early Songs.

Sep 4, 2021 | BBC Proms 2021, Concert Reviews

Saturday, September 4, 2021, Royal Albert Hall, London Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 from 7.30 p.m. It was a small step from the Overture to Johann Strauss’s operetta Die Fledermaus (Austrian high society in full champagne-swigging regalia) to Ravel’s post-WWI...