BBC Proms 2023 | Colin's Column

BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 5: BBC Philharmonic. Anja Bihlmaier conducts Coleridge-Taylor, Brahms & Bartók; Bomsori plays Bruch. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Jul 17, 2023 | BBC Proms 2023, Concert Reviews

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Monday, July 17, 2023 Royal Albert Hall, London Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Ballade in A-minor was written 1898 for the Three Choirs Festival at Elgar’s suggestion. It’s an uneven work. Some ideas engage and indeed remind of...

BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 4: Pekka Kuusisto & Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen performing Tarrodi’s Birds of Paradise, Beethoven One, and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Jul 16, 2023 | BBC Proms 2023, Concert Reviews

Photo, Mark Allan Sunday, July 16, 2023 Royal Albert Hall, London Andrea Tarrodi’s Birds of Paradise started the show, cacophonous birdsong competing for attention until a forest clearing allows a view of the sky and the feathered friends head for new horizons;...

BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 3: Benjamin Grosvenor recital. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Jul 16, 2023 | BBC Proms 2023, Concert Reviews

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Sunday, July 16, 2023 Royal Albert Hall, London The magical orchestral colours and rapturous expression of Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune would seem a very unlikely candidate for a piano transcription – and so it...

BBC Proms 2023 – Souvenir photo of Prom 2: Northern Soul. Saturday July 15 @ Royal Albert Hall.

Jul 15, 2023 | BBC Proms 2023

Photo, Andy Paradise Vula Malinga vocals Frida Touray vocals Brendan Reilly vocals Nick Shirm vocals Darrell Smith vocals BBC Concert Orchestra Edwin Outwater https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001nnsq ANNOUNCEMENT: BBC PROMS...

BBC Proms 2023 – Proms at Londonderry: William Byrd: England’s Nightingale. July 15; Stile antico @ Guildhall, Derry. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Jul 15, 2023 | BBC Proms 2023

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Dalia Stasevska conducts The First Night of the BBC Proms 2023, including Paul Lewis playing Grieg’s Piano Concerto, Lesley Manville narrating for Sibelius’s Snöfrid, and Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Jul 14, 2023 | BBC Proms 2023, Concert Reviews

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Friday, July 14, 2023 Royal Albert Hall, London When the respective presenters of last Saturday’s Record Review and Monday’s In Tune went into Proms-trailer overdrive, I hit the ‘off’ switch and it’s been...