BBC Proms 2021 – BBC Symphony Orchestra – Semyon Bychkov conducts Coriolan Overture & Scottish Symphony | Kirill Gerstein plays Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto.

BBC Proms 2021 – BBC Symphony Orchestra – Semyon Bychkov conducts Coriolan Overture & Scottish Symphony | Kirill Gerstein plays Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto.

Sep 3, 2021 | BBC Proms 2021, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Friday, September 3, 2021, Royal Albert Hall, London Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 from 7.30 p.m. Overture-Concerto-Symphony: a tried and trusted concert arrangement, although the former genre tends to be in short supply these days, so Beethoven’s Coriolan (for...
Post #2,600: Glyndebourne Festival Opera @ BBC Proms 2021 – Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde – London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Robin Ticciati, with Simon O’Neill & Miina-Liisa Värelä.

Post #2,600: Glyndebourne Festival Opera @ BBC Proms 2021 – Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde – London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Robin Ticciati, with Simon O’Neill & Miina-Liisa Värelä.

Aug 31, 2021 | BBC Proms 2021, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Tuesday, August 31, 2021, Royal Albert Hall, London Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 from 5.00 p.m. One of the very greatest of operas (for me its twin peak is Verdi’s Otello), Wagner’s seminal Tristan und Isolde transferred from its recent Glyndebourne run to the Royal...
BBC Proms 2021 – Mahler Chamber Orchestra – George Benjamin conducts his Concerto for Orchestra and music by Oliver Knussen and Henry Purcell | Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays Ravel’s G-major Piano Concerto.

BBC Proms 2021 – Mahler Chamber Orchestra – George Benjamin conducts his Concerto for Orchestra and music by Oliver Knussen and Henry Purcell | Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays Ravel’s G-major Piano Concerto.

Aug 30, 2021 | BBC Proms 2021, Concert Reviews

Monday, August 30, 2021, Royal Albert Hall, London Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 from 7.30 p.m. The evening opened with The Way to Castle Yonder, music compiled from interludes in Oliver Knussen’s Sendak opera Higgledy Piggledy Pop! – brilliantly scored, so inventive...
BBC Proms 2021 – BBC Symphony Orchestra – Sakari Oramo conducts John Foulds, Charlotte Bray & Malcolm Arnold | Timothy Ridout plays William Walton’s Viola Concerto.

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,...