BBC Proms 2024 | Colin's Column

BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 30: The National Youth Orchestra. Saturday, August 10. For the record.

Aug 10, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024

Wagner: The Flying Dutchman – overtureMissy Mazzoli: Orpheus UndoneDani Howard: Three, Four AND… (BBC co-commission: world premiere)* Mahler: Symphony No 1 in D major The National Youth OrchestraMusicians from NYO InspireAlexandre Bloch*Tess Jackson Royal Albert...

BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 29: Jonathan Scott’s recital on the Royal Albert Hall organ, including the 1812 Overture. 11 a.m. and live on Radio 3. For the record.

Aug 10, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024

August 10: Richard Wagner (arr. Lemare): Tannhäuser OvertureJohann Sebastian Bach: Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542Cécile Chaminade (arr. J. Scott): Six Concert Études, Op. 35 – AutumnJules Grison: Toccata in F majorCharles Ives: Variations on ‘America’Pyotr...

BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 28: Heiner Goebbels’s Songs of Wars I Have Seen. Friday, August 9 @ 22:30, Royal Albert Hall. Live on Radio 3. For the record.

Aug 9, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024

“In 2007 new-music ensemble the London Sinfonietta and period-instrument outfit the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment together gave the first performance of Heiner Goebbels’s Songs of Wars I Have Seen, commissioned by the Southbank Centre to mark the...

“Remembering Sir Andrew Davis at the Proms”. Broadcast on BBC Radio 3, August 9, 2024 @ 20:30. For the record.

Aug 9, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024

“With a career which spanned 132 performances at the Royal Albert Hall, including an appearance on the chamber organ for Monteverdi’s vespers in 1968, Sir Andrew Davis clocked-up more First and Last Nights at the Proms than any other conductor in modern...

BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 27: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Sakari Oramo conducts Richard Strauss’s Alpine Symphony, Mozart’s E-flat Piano Concerto K271 (Seong-Jin Cho) and Kaija Saariaho’s Mirage (Silja Aalto & Anssi Karttunen). Live on BBC Radio 3.

Aug 9, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Friday, August 9, 2024 Royal Albert Hall, London We were summoned for 18:00, for this early-evening Prom, which culminated in Richard Strauss’s Eine Alpensinfonie, his farewell to the extravagant, large-scale symphonic poem, opening and closing in darkness,...

BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 26: BBC Philharmonic. Anja Bihlmaier conducts Brahms’s Fourth Symphony and Sarah Gibson’s warp & weft, with Tobias Feldmann playing Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Aug 8, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024, Concert Reviews, Videos

Sarah Gibson (1986-2024) Thursday, August 8, 2024 Royal Albert Hall, London Five taps on timpani, woodwinds entering on the fifth one to begin a purposeful tutti, the violinist having to wait awhile to sound an appearance, and when it arrives the soloist needs perfect...