Sep 18, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024, News
10.6million accessed Proms on TV, 4.6 million streamed on BBC iPlayer & BBC Sounds and average audience capacity for main evening performances at the Royal Albert Hall was 96% Proms 2024 season has reached over 10.6 million people on TV so far 4.6 million...
Sep 16, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024, Ramblings
Judging from this site’s viewing figures, this year’s BBC Proms really caught many people’s imagination, even the ‘for the record’ posts. So, I say thank-you to the readers who found my Column in the last couple of months and hope that...
Sep 14, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024
“Sir Malcolm Sargent conducting [at The Last Night of the Proms] during the 1960s”. From “In pictures: 75 years of the Last Night of the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall” on the RAH site. William Walton: Overture ‘Portsmouth Point’Giacomo...
Sep 13, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024, Concert Reviews
Friday, September 13, 2024 Royal Albert Hall, London On the date of his birth, one-hundred-and-fifty years ago, there was nothing by Schoenberg in this concert. Instead the Proms rolled back the years even further for the music and the instruments deployed to play it....
Sep 13, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024, News
SAKARI ORAMO CONDUCTS THE LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS, CLOSING AN EXTRAORDINARY SEASON OF MUSIC MAKING Award-winning American soprano Angel Blue and one of Britain’s best-loved pianists, Sir Stephen Hough, join the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus...
Sep 13, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024, Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]
Thursday, September 12, 2024 Royal Albert Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Replacing András Schiff, indisposed with a broken leg, Seong-Jin Cho, flying in from Berlin at short notice, steered clear of Bach’s originally advertised Art of Fugue with a...
