BBC Proms 2022 | Colin's Column

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 25: BBC Philharmonic. John Storgårds. Kalevi Aho. Eight Seasons. Carolina Eyck (theremin). Kaija Saariaho. Vista. Shostakovich’s Fifteenth Symphony. Live BBC Radio 3 broadcast.

Aug 4, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Thursday, August 4, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London This was a concert and a half, opening with Kalevi Aho’s Eight Seasons (how the Sami people divide a year), a Concerto for theremin (2012), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin. The...

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 24: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Ryan Bancroft. Caroline Shaw. Mendelssohn. Clara-Jumi Kang. Mahler. Miah Persson. Live BBC Radio 3 broadcast.

Aug 3, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews

Wednesday, August 3, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London Following Entr’acte (for strings) by Caroline Shaw (born 1982) – of pastiches and irritating repetition of simple phrases interspersed by unrelated whimsy (equaling a ragbag of doodles) – Clara-Jumi Kang gave a...

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 22: Aurora Orchestra. Nicholas Collon. Xenakis. Henry Baldwin. Beethoven’s Fifth from memory. Tom Service. Shostakovich. Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Live BBC Radio 3 broadcast.

Aug 2, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews

Tuesday, August 2, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London It was just a few weeks ago that Radio 3 broadcast Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto, a regular in the station’s schedule, and just about everywhere else. (I’m not sure the work, or any piece, is...

BBC Proms 2022 – Alina Ibragimova & Cédric Tiberghien @ Bristol [live BBC Radio 3 broadcast].

Aug 1, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews

Monday, August 1, 2022 St George’s, Bristol Leading up to this lunchtime César Franck Sonata in A for Violin and Piano were Havergal Brian’s Legend (discovered posthumously, he died in 1972, and believed to have been written during the 1920s) – a fine performance of...

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 20: Martyn Brabbins conducts Birtwistle & Xenakis, and Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, with BBCSO; Tom Borrow plays Ravel’s G-major Piano Concerto [live BBC Radio 3 broadcast].

Jul 31, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Sunday, July 31, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London To open this Prom there was the addition of Sonance Severance 2000, a tribute to the late Sir Harrison Birtwistle, which he composed in 1999 for the Cleveland Orchestra and Christoph von...

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 19a: Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra; Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts Silvestrov & Brahms; Anna Fedorova plays Chopin; Liudmyla Monastyrska sings ‘Abscheulicher!’

Jul 31, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews

Photo, Mark Allan Sunday, July 31, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London Slotted into the schedule after the Proms Guide was published, the touring Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra (comprising musicians based in the country with dispensation to leave for the UFO’s travels,...