BBC Proms 2022 | Colin's Column

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 46: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Cristian Măcelaru. Mendelssohn’s Overture The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave) & Brahms’s Third Symphony. Augustin Hadelich/Dvořák’s Violin Concerto. Live BBC Radio 3 broadcast.

Aug 21, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews

Photo, Mark Allan Sunday, August 21, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London It seemed a long way to come for this ‘safe’ programme, especially when this particular orchestra has a reputation for new and rare repertoire. But of course it plays the classics, too....

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 45: Morning Ragas with Amjad Ali Khan, at the Royal Albert Hall, on Sunday August 21. No review but a souvenir photo.

Aug 21, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022

Photo, Mark Allan Artists: Amjad Ali Khan sarod [centre of photo] Amaan Ali Bangash sarod Ayaan Ali Bangash sarod Sanju Sahai tabla Pirashanna Thevarajah mridangam...

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 44: BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus. Sakari Oramo. Debussy’s Trois Nocturnes & Ethel Smyth’s Mass in D. Live BBC Radio 3 broadcast.

Aug 20, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Nocturne: Blue and Silver – Chelsea (1871) by James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) Saturday, August 20, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London Both works were composed during the 1890s. Debussy’s Nocturnes owe to Whistler (an American artist from Massachusetts who...

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 43: Handel’s Solomon with Iestyn Davies, Anna Dennis & Ashley Riches; The English Concert conducted by Sofi Jeannin.

Aug 20, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Friday, August 19, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Curtis Rogers It’s a brave – or perhaps just foolhardy – undertaking for a period-instrument ensemble to perform a long Baroque composition, such as Handel’s oratorio Solomon...

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 42: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Thomas Dausgaard. Symphonies by Sibelius (Seventh) & Nielsen (Fourth; ‘Inextinguishable’). Jan Lisiecki/Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.4. Live BBC Radio 3 broadcast.

Aug 18, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Thursday, August 18, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London With this concert Thomas Dausgaard bid farewell to the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra as Chief Conductor. He chose a programme of masterworks with which to do it. I’m told Sibelius Seven...

Tonight’s Prom: change of pianist.

Aug 18, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, News

Prom 42 (Thursday 18 August) Jan Lisiecki will perform in place of Francesco Piemontesi for this performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Thomas Dausgaard. Full programme details can be...