BBC Proms 2023 | Colin's Column

BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 36: London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir. Edward Gardner conducts György Ligeti & Richard Strauss. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Aug 12, 2023 | BBC Proms 2023, Concert Reviews

Photo, Mark Allan Friday, August 11, 2023 Royal Albert Hall, London Music used by Stanley Kubrick for 2001: A Space Odyssey. Ligeti’s thirty-minute Requiem is of extreme dynamics and frequencies as it explores the mysteries of the Universe through enigmatic distance,...

BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 35: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Sakari Oramo conducts Mahler Seven, and Leila Josefowicz plays Berg’s Violin Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Aug 10, 2023 | BBC Proms 2023, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Thursday, August 10, 2023 Royal Albert Hall, London I’ll now never know, but my gut-feeling was that Sir Andrew Davis conducting Mahler’s Tenth Symphony (left unfinished at the composer’s death and made performable by...

BBC Proms 2023 – Souvenir photo of Mindful Mix Prom (No.34) with VOCES8 and others, with “a playlist that drifts from the Renaissance to Radiohead”. Wednesday August 9 @ Royal Albert Hall (late-night).

Aug 10, 2023 | BBC Proms 2023

Photo, Andy Paradise Ola Gjeilo, pianoCarducci String Quartet(Matthew Denton, Michelle Fleming, violins; Eoin Schmidt-Martin, viola, Emma Denton, cello)Ruby Aspinall, harpVOCES8 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001p7z6

BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 33: BBC Philharmonic. John Storgårds conducts Weber & Rachmaninov, with Dame Sarah Connolly singing songs by Alma Mahler & Dora Pejačević. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Aug 9, 2023 | BBC Proms 2023, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Wednesday, August 9, 2023 Royal Albert Hall, London John Storgårds is currently doing well with First Symphonies; last week it was Sibelius’s,...

BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 32: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Jaime Martín conducts Dora Pejačević’s Overture & Gustav Holst’s The Planets, with Geneva Lewis playing Grace Williams’s Violin Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Aug 8, 2023 | BBC Proms 2023, Concert Reviews

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Tuesday, August 8, 2023 Royal Albert Hall, London Spanish-born Jaime Martín currently holds conducting posts in Dublin, Los Angeles and Melbourne, and was a familiar face in London as a flautist, including with the LPO. His journey through...

BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 31: Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Souvenir photo of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites, conducted by Robin Ticciati. Monday August 7 @ Royal Albert Hall.

Aug 8, 2023 | BBC Proms 2023

Photo, Sisi Burn Blanche de la Force Sally Matthews soprano Madame de Croissy (Old Prioress) Katarina Dalayman mezzo-soprano Madame Lidoine (New Prioress) Golda Schultz soprano Mother Marie of the Incarnation Karen...