BBC Proms 2022 | Colin's Column

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 9: Shéhérazade & Scheherazade. Ariane Matiakh conducts BBC National Orchestra of Wales; Catrin Finch premieres Sally Beamish’s Hive [live BBC Radio 3 broadcast].

Jul 21, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews

L-R: Sally, Catrin, Ariane; photo, Chris Christodoulou Thursday, July 21, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London Ravel’s early if posthumously published ouverture de féerie (not to be confused with his Shéhérazade song-cycle) was broadcast on Radio 3 just a couple of days...

BBC Proms 2022 Amendments.

Jul 21, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, News

Prom 16 (Wednesday 27 July) Jacques Imbrailo will perform in the place of Andrew Foster-Williams for this performance of Vaughan Williams’s Sea Symphony with BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Andrew Manze. Full programme details can...

Column Post #4,700. BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 8: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Dalia Stasevska conducts Jóhann Jóhannsson, Hildur Guðnadóttir, and Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet; Denis Kozhukhin plays Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto. Live BBC Radio 3 broadcast.

Jul 20, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Wednesday, July 20, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London The first of the works by the Icelandic composers came from the pen of Jóhann Jóhannsson (1969-2018), part of a score for a film, The Miners’ Hymns – dark, deep-below sounds, static, a...

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 7 (last night, late): Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. No review from yours truly, rather a souvenir photograph of the concert.

Jul 20, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Ramblings

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Alice Coote Dido James Newby Aeneas Gemma Summerfield Belinda Madeleine Shaw Sorceress Nardus Williams Second Woman Nicky Spence Sailor Tim Mead Spirit Helen Charleston First Witch Luke...

BBC Proms 2022 – 6: Sir Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Philharmonic in the Fourth Symphonies of Ralph Vaughan Williams and Sir Michael Tippett [live BBC Radio 3 broadcast].

Jul 19, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Tuesday, July 19, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London It would have been fascinating to hear Omer Meir Wellber conduct these masterpieces for he is certainly an interesting interpreter (with occasional eccentricities), but it wasn’t to be. Andrew...

BBC Proms 2022 – 5: Juanjo Mena conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Bruckner Six & the Bach/Webern Ricercar; Lawrence Power plays James MacMillan’s Viola Concerto [live BBC Radio 3 broadcast].

Jul 18, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Monday, July 18, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London With principal conductor Omer Meir Wellber withdrawing, the BBC Philharmonic turned to his predecessor, Juanjo Mena, the Bach and Bruckner surviving the change. Ten years ago Mena recorded...