BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 41: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Thomas Dausgaard. Ravel’s La valse & Nielsen’s Sinfonia espansiva (Symphony 3). Behzod Abduraimov/Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.1.

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 41: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Thomas Dausgaard. Ravel’s La valse & Nielsen’s Sinfonia espansiva (Symphony 3). Behzod Abduraimov/Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.1.

Aug 18, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors

Photo, Mark Allan Wednesday, August 17, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London Guest Reviewer, David Gutman How to account for the generally smaller Proms audiences this year? COVID is certainly a factor though not the only one. One might speculate similarly about the career...
BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 40: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Vasily Petrenko. Aaron Copland. Appalachian Spring. Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony. Peter Moore/George Walker’s Trombone Concerto. Live BBC Radio 3 broadcast.

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 40: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Vasily Petrenko. Aaron Copland. Appalachian Spring. Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony. Peter Moore/George Walker’s Trombone Concerto. Live BBC Radio 3 broadcast.

Aug 16, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Tuesday, August 16, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London Opening the evening, the Suite from Appalachian Spring, Aaron Copland’s score for Martha Graham’s choreography (in the composer’s orchestral adaptation of the thirteen-player original)....
BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 39: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Sakari Oramo. Mark-Anthony Turnage. Time Flies. Elgar’s First Symphony. Constantin Hartwig/Vaughan Williams’s Tuba Concerto. Live BBC Radio 3 broadcast.

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 39: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Sakari Oramo. Mark-Anthony Turnage. Time Flies. Elgar’s First Symphony. Constantin Hartwig/Vaughan Williams’s Tuba Concerto. Live BBC Radio 3 broadcast.

Aug 15, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Monday, August 15, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London June 13, 1954, the first performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Tuba Concerto, given by Philip Catelinet with the LSO and Barbirolli, commercially recorded the following day. It’s in three...
BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 38: Philharmonia Orchestra. Santtu-Matias Rouvali. Tchaikovsky. Prokofiev. Swan Lake. Romeo and Juliet. Jennifer Koh/Missy Mazzoli’s Violin Concerto. Live BBC Radio 3 broadcast.

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 38: Philharmonia Orchestra. Santtu-Matias Rouvali. Tchaikovsky. Prokofiev. Swan Lake. Romeo and Juliet. Jennifer Koh/Missy Mazzoli’s Violin Concerto. Live BBC Radio 3 broadcast.

Aug 14, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews

Missy Mazzoli Sunday, August 14, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London The concert opened with a selection from Swan Lake, beginning with the Act I ‘Waltz’, trumpets to the fore and a few mannerisms aside (pauses, elongations), it was also attractively souffle-light in...
BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 36: ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Marin Alsop. Bartók. Hannah Eisendle. Miraculous Mandarin. Heliosis. Dvořák Seven. Benjamin Grosvenor/Prokofiev. Live BBC Radio 3 broadcast.

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 36: ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Marin Alsop. Bartók. Hannah Eisendle. Miraculous Mandarin. Heliosis. Dvořák Seven. Benjamin Grosvenor/Prokofiev. Live BBC Radio 3 broadcast.

Aug 13, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews

Hannah Eisendle (born Vienna 1993) Saturday, August 13, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London The Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin, Bartók stopping approximately two-thirds into his score for this lurid tale dressed as a pantomime-ballet, was initially a little pedestrian...