BBC Proms 2022 | Colin's Column

BBC Proms statement.

Sep 8, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, News

“Following the very sad news of the death of Her Majesty The Queen, as a mark of respect we will not be going ahead with Prom 71 on Friday 9 September, or the Last Night of the Proms on Saturday 10 September.”

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 70: Philadelphia Orchestra. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony and Angel Blue sings Samuel Barber & Valerie Coleman. Concert cancelled due to the sad passing today of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Sep 8, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, News

(1926-2022) Thursday, September 8, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London Angel Blue would have sung… Samuel Barber | Knoxville: Summer of 1915Valerie Coleman | This Is Not a Small Voice (UK premiere) From a friend in the Albert Hall: “National anthem was followed...

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 69: Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts Beethoven’s Missa solemnis. Monteverdi Choir & ORR. Live BBC Radio 3 broadcast.

Sep 7, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Wednesday, September 7, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London These artists performed Beethoven’s Mass in D (Opus 123) a week ago in Berlin, relayed live by the Digital Concert Hall, but it clashed with The Dream of Gerontius at the Proms, so...

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 67: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Thomas Søndergård conducts Adès/Powder Her Face, Britten/Peter Grimes, Bernstein/West Side Story, and Nicola Benedetti plays Wynton Marsalis’s Violin Concerto. September 6/Royal Albert Hall. No review but a souvenir photo.

Sep 6, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022

Photo, Mark Allan https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001bklq

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 66: the premiere of Betsy Jolas’s bTunes for Nicolas [BBC co-commission]. Nicolas Hodges/BBC Symphony Orchestra/Karina Canellakis. Live BBC Radio 3 broadcast & iPlayer.

Sep 6, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Monday, September 5, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London It was either this Prom or another concert from Berlin, part of its current Musikfest. I chose the latter,...

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 65: Berliner Philharmoniker. Daniel Harding conducts Anton Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony (Romantic) and Tabea Zimmermann plays Alfred Schnittke’s Viola Concerto.

Sep 5, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Sunday, September 4, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Change of conductor. Daniel Harding stepping in for an indisposed Kirill Petrenko. Change of programme. Bruckner Four replacing Shostakovich Ten. Change of...