BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 30: Sinfonia of London. John Wilson conducts Lili Boulanger & William Walton, with Alim Beisembayev playing Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.

BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 30: Sinfonia of London. John Wilson conducts Lili Boulanger & William Walton, with Alim Beisembayev playing Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Sunday, August 6, 2023 Royal Albert Hall, London The short-lived Lili Boulanger’s D’un matin de printemps (1918) gets programmed quite often these days whatever the season. Her generally carefree impression of a spring morning is...
Column Post #6,700. BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 28: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. Carlos Miguel Prieto conducts Hindemith and Copland, with Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha singing Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Column Post #6,700. BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 28: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. Carlos Miguel Prieto conducts Hindemith and Copland, with Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha singing Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Photo, Mark Allan Saturday, August 5, 2023 Royal Albert Hall, London We live in strange times – when so few of Paul Hindemith’s works now have only a foothold on the repertoire, such as his Mathis der Maler Symphony and, included in this Prom, the...
BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 27: BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus. Klaus Mäkelä conducts Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast, with Thomas Hampson, and Jimmy López Bellido’s Perú negro, with Yuja Wang playing Rachmaninov’s Paganini Rhapsody. Live on BBC Radio 3.

BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 27: BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus. Klaus Mäkelä conducts Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast, with Thomas Hampson, and Jimmy López Bellido’s Perú negro, with Yuja Wang playing Rachmaninov’s Paganini Rhapsody. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Friday, August 4, 2023 Royal Albert Hall, London As Humphrey Bogart’s Rick says to Ingrid Bergman’s Lisa in Casablanca: “We’ll always have Paris”. That might have been true for Klaus Mäkelä if he hadn’t conducted William Walton’s...