BBC Proms 2022 | Colin's Column

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 19: The Hallé & Mark Elder play Dukas’s Sorcerer, Respighi’s Fountains, and Puccini’s Il tabarro [live BBC Radio 3 broadcast].

Jul 30, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Saturday, July 30, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London The concert opened with Paul Dukas’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, nicely atmospheric, then with witty bassoons spiriting off a Hallé performance of vitality and ever-increasing characterisation...

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 18: Alpesh Chauhan conducts BBCSSO in Bruckner & Shostakovich; Colin Currie plays Nicole Lizée’s Blurr is the Colour of My True Love’s Eyes [live BBC Radio 3 broadcast].

Jul 29, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews

Nicole Lizée (born 1973) Friday, July 29, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London The danger about programming certain pieces of music often is that they become too ‘everyday’, lose their shine, and get taken for granted. One such is Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony (and...

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 17: Ilan Volkov conducts Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem and Jennifer Walshe’s The Site of an Investigation [live BBC Radio 3 broadcast].

Jul 28, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews

Photo, Mark Allan Thursday, July 28, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London If I were to choose just one example of the great choral repertoire composed prior to the twentieth-century (which would include the Saint Matthew Passion, Missa solemnis, Messiah, Mozart’s C-minor...

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 16: Andrew Manze conducts Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony; also Bishop Rock and Sea Sketches [live BBC Radio 3 broadcast].

Jul 27, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews

Wednesday, July 27, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London Andrew Manze has recorded Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Nine Symphonies (in Liverpool for Onyx) and, here, in the First of them, he rode the waves of A Sea Symphony, setting words by Walt Whitman. Unfortunately, the...

BBC Proms 2022 Amendments.

Jul 27, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, News

Prom 19 (Saturday 30 July) Daniela Barcellona, Ivan Gyngazov & Jung Soon Yun have withdrawn from Prom 19: Puccini’s Il Tabarro. They are replaced by Annunziata Vestri, Adam Smith & Shengzhi Ren respectively. Full programme details can be...

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 15: Jordan de Souza conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Candide Overture, George Walker’s Variations & Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony – Johan Dalene plays Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto [live BBC Radio 3 broadcast].

Jul 26, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Tuesday, July 26, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London I’ve not heard Johan Dalene’s BIS recording of Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto (but this,...