BBC Proms 2023 | Colin's Column

BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 57: Hannah Waddingham withdraws.

Aug 28, 2023 | BBC Proms 2023, News

Tonight’s Fantasy Film Music at the Proms will now be presented by Katie Derham and Ali Plumb. Due to the ongoing Screen Actors Guild strike, Hannah Waddingham has decided, sadly, she can no longer host due to the contents of the Prom.

BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 56: London Symphony Orchestra. BBC Singers. Sir Simon Rattle conducts Mahler’s Ninth Symphony and Poulenc’s Figure humaine. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Aug 27, 2023 | BBC Proms 2023, Concert Reviews

Photo, Mark Allan Sunday, August 27, 2023 Royal Albert Hall, London For Simon Rattle’s final UK concert as the LSO’s music director (to be followed by imminent appearances in Berlin and Bucharest with the orchestra while he still holds the position), whether it had to...

BBC Proms 2023 – Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective @ Hall for Cornwall, Truro, on the afternoon of Sunday August 27. Schubert’s Trout, Coleridge-Taylor’s Nonet, Gershwin Songs.

Aug 27, 2023 | BBC Proms 2023

Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D667, “Trout” Coleridge-Taylor: Nonet in F minor, Op. 2 Gershwin. arr. Poster:Love Walked InThe Man I LoveA Foggy DayThey Can’t Take That Away From Me Kaleidoscope Chamber CollectiveArmand Dijkoloum, oboeCristina...

BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 55: Boston Symphony Orchestra (2/2). Andris Nelsons conducts Carlos Simon, Stravinsky & Ravel, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays Gershwin’s Concerto in F. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Aug 27, 2023 | BBC Proms 2023, Concert Reviews

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Saturday, August 26, 2023 Royal Albert Hall, London Groundhog Day! Once again, a Prom yielded to an event in Berlin,...

BBC Proms 2023 – souvenir photo of Prom 54: Isabelle Demers’s recital on the organ of the Royal Albert Hall, given on the afternoon of Saturday August 26.

Aug 26, 2023 | BBC Proms 2023

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Wagner: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg – Prelude to Act 1 (transcr. Demers)Rachel Laurin: Prelude and Fugue in G major (world premiere)Bach: Cantata No. 146, ‘Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal’ – Sinfonia (arr. Dupré)Samuel Coleridge-Taylor:...

BBC Proms 2023 – souvenir photo of Prom 53: Late-night Bach (two Cantatas and a Brandenburg) with Iestyn Davies & The English Concert on Friday August 25 @ Royal Albert Hall, London.