BBC Proms 2023 | Colin's Column

BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 16: Hallé. Sir Mark Elder conducts Rachmaninov’s The Bells and Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Jul 26, 2023 | BBC Proms 2023, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Chris Christodoulou, photo Wednesday, July 26, 2023 Royal Albert Hall, London There was a zest, a good to be alive feeling to the beginning of The Bells, a lifespan piece, although there were shadows, too, as Mark Elder sculptured an engrossing performance of...

BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 15: Souvenir photo of “Moon and Stars”. Anna Lapwood playing the Royal Albert Hall organ on Tuesday July 25 (late-night).

Jul 26, 2023 | BBC Proms 2023

Sisi Burn, photo https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001nwbr

BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 14: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Elim Chan conducts Noriko Koide’s Swaddling Silk and Gossamer Rain, Elgar’s Enigma Variations, and Jan Lisiecki plays Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Jul 26, 2023 | BBC Proms 2023, Concert Reviews

Sisi Burn, photo Tuesday, July 25, 2023 Royal Albert Hall, London Elim Chan has certainly connected to Elgar’s Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma), the score cherished by her but not indulged (or glossed over for that matter), delivered freshly, the...

BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 13: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Ilan Volkov conducts Tchaikovsky’s ‘Pathétique’ Symphony and Catherine Lamb’s Portions Transparent/Opaque. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Jul 24, 2023 | BBC Proms 2023, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Sisi Burn, photo Monday, July 24, 2023 Royal Albert Hall, London Portions Transparent/Opaque (BBC commission: “world premiere of Portions 2 & 3” – Proms Guide) is a fascinating thirty-minute study in sound – distant, mostly quiet, skeletal,...

BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 12: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra & BBC Symphony Chorus. Ryan Wigglesworth conducts Beethoven’s ‘Choral’ Symphony and Helen Grime’s Meditations on Joy. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Jul 24, 2023 | BBC Proms 2023, Concert Reviews

Photo, Sisi Burn Sunday, July 23, 2023 Royal Albert Hall, London Helen Grime’s Meditations on Joy (BBC co-commission: UK premiere) conveys a range of emotions and circumstances, private sadness to begin with, strings dominant, contrasted with much public angst...

BBC Proms 2023: Souvenir photo of CBeebies: Ocean Adventure. Sunday July 23 (late-afternoon) @ Sage Gateshead.

Jul 23, 2023 | BBC Proms 2023

Thomas Jackson, photo Royal Northern SinfoniaKwamé Ryan Not broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.