BBC Proms 2022 | Colin's Column

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 49: Simon Rattle conducts the LSO in Harrison Birtwistle’s Donum Simoni MMXVIII & Gustav Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony.

Aug 25, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Wednesday, August 24, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London Guest Reviewer, David Gutman With Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony no longer a special event in the concert hall or on disc it can be hard to engender that sense of...

BBC Proms comes to Printworks London on Saturday 3 September.

Aug 24, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, News

The BBC Proms at Printworks:An operatic spectacle featuring dance, art, film, and fashion The BBC Proms are delighted to announce details for the Proms and the ENO at Printworks London: Glass Handel, which takes place on Saturday 3 September. Created and co-produced...

Amendment to Prom 65 – Sunday 4th September.

Aug 24, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, News

Prom 65 (Sunday 4 September) Due to a serious foot injury and subsequent surgery, chief conductor Kirill Petrenko has been ordered by his doctor to take further rest and therefore will not conduct the second of his two Proms with the Berliner Philharmoniker, on...

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 48: Australian World Orchestra. Zubin Mehta. Webern & Brahms. Siobhan Stagg sings Debussy’s Ariettes oubliées, orchestrated by Brett Dean. Live BBC Radio 3 broadcast.

Aug 23, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Photo, Mark Allan Tuesday, August 23, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London The Australian World Orchestra – formed in 2010 by Alexander Briger with him conducting the inaugural concert the following year – consists entirely of native musicians employed at home and abroad....

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 47: Aretha Franklin: Queen of Soul, with Sheléa, at the Royal Albert Hall, on Monday August 22. No review but a souvenir photo.

Aug 22, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022

Photo, Mark Allan Artists: Sheléa Vula’s Chorale Vula Malinga leader Jules Buckley Orchestra Everton Nelson leader Jules Buckley conductor https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001b5km

BBC Proms 2022 @ Liverpool. Dudok Quartet Amsterdam. String Quartets by Doreen Carwithen & Johannes Brahms. Live BBC Radio 3 broadcast.

Aug 22, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews

Doreen Carwithen (1922-2003) Monday, August 22, 2022 St George’s Hall, Liverpool This lunchtime recital opened with Doreen Carwithen’s String Quartet No.2 (1952), a two-movement affair, slow and shadowy, restless, quite adventurous harmonically, and then...