BBC Proms 2024 | Colin's Column

BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 35: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Ilan Volkov with Aaron Diehl Trio, and others. Duke Ellington, Anthony Braxton and Mary Lou Williams. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Aug 15, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Mary Lou Williams (1910-81) Thursday, August 15, 2024 Royal Albert Hall, London The four Ellington pieces came over well in Morton Gould’s ‘insider’ arrangements – as Sophisticated as the Lady herself, open to Moods, not only Indigo and...

BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 34: Reel Change – Soundtracks at the Cutting Edge; London Contemporary Orchestra/Robert Ames. Wednesday, August 14, Royal Albert Hall, London. For the record.

Aug 14, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024

“Edith Bowman presents 21st-Century Soundtracks, showcasing music from some of the most compelling contemporary film scores including Poor Things, Everything Everywhere All At Once, All Quiet On The Western Front and Tár. Robert Ames conducts The London...

BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 33: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Elgar, Holst, Vaughan Williams. Martyn Brabbins conducts Cockaigne, Hammersmith, A London Symphony, and Christopher Maltman sings Charles Villiers Stanford. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Aug 13, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024, Concert Reviews, Holst 150 (born September 21, 1874), Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Tuesday, August 13, 2024 Royal Albert Hall, London On his sixty-fifth birthday, Martyn Brabbins conducted this mouth-watering London-themed programme, opening with Elgar’s musical snapshot of the capital in 1900, Cockaigne Overture (In London Town), jaunty,...

BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 32: BBCNOW/Nil Venditti. Grace Williams & Louise Farrenc, Beethoven 7, and Jess Gillam premieres Karl Jenkins’s Stravaganza. Monday, August 12, Royal Albert Hall. For the record.

Aug 12, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024

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BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 31: West–Eastern Divan Orchestra. Daniel Barenboim conducts Schubert’s ‘Great C-major’ Symphony, and Anne-Sophie Mutter plays Brahms’s Violin Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Aug 12, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024, Concert Reviews

Sunday, August 11, 2024 Royal Albert Hall, London This was not an evening to be a critic. The crowd, and even the R3 presenter, infatuated. But here goes anyway. Daniel Barenboim set a somnambulant pace for the opening of Brahms’s Violin Concerto. It was...

BBC Proms 2024 – Proms Belfast: Debussy, Fauré and Holmès. Sunday, August 11, 15:00 @ Ulster Hall, Belfast; live on Radio 3. For the record.

Aug 11, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024

“Live at the BBC Proms: the Quatuor Van Kuijk join baritone James Atkinson and pianist Michael Pandya for a chamber concert that nods to fin de siècle Paris, featuring Debussy’s String Quartet, Fauré’s exquisite song cycle La bonne chanson and Holmès’s Les...