BBC Proms 2022 | Colin's Column

From this year’s BBC Proms – Sir Mark Elder conducts the Hallé in Respighi’s Fountains of Rome.

Aug 9, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Videos

Trevi Fountain Review of concert, July 30,...

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 30: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Tredegar Band. Ryan Bancroft. Gavin Higgins’s Concerto Grosso. Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique. Live BBC Radio 3 broadcast.

Aug 8, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews

Photo, Mark Allan Monday, August 8, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London Following this recent premiere for Gavin Higgins,...

BBC Proms 2022. Lunchtime Mozart at Battersea with Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Matthew Truscott (violin), Joel Hunter (viola) & Frank-Michael Guthmann (cello). Live BBC Radio 3 broadcast.

Aug 8, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews

Monday, August 8, 2022 Battersea Arts Centre, London Piano Trio in B-flat, K502Piano Quartet in E-flat, K493 Both works already recorded by this team,...

BBC Proms 2022 – Proms 28 & 29: Leif Ove Andsnes & Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Mozart.

Aug 8, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Sunday, August 7, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Leif Ove Andsnes’s Beethoven cycle with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra was one of the highlightsof the 2015 Proms, not least for an imperious account of the...

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 27: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. Andrew Gourlay. Daphnis. Simone Dinnerstein. Rhapsody in Blue. Danny Elfman. Live BBC Radio 3 broadcast.

Aug 6, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Saturday, August 6, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London Daphnis et Chloé without a chorus, seemingly. Rhapsody in Blue without swing (so that it didn’t mean a thing). Danny Elfman steals the show. Although Ravel allowed for no vocalise being...

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 26: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Semyon Bychkov. Julian Anderson. Prague Panoramas. Martinů. The Labèques. Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances. Live BBC Radio 3 broadcast.

Aug 5, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Friday, August 5, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London Ah, the keen anticipation of a world premiere, especially a potential major work such as a Symphony. It might be a dud, or a masterpiece, or something in between. Julian Anderson’s...