BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 25: BBC Philharmonic. John Storgårds conducts Genoveva Overture, Pohjola’s Daughter, Tchaikovsky Four, and Stefan Dohr gives UK premiere of Hans Abrahamsen’s Horn Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.

BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 25: BBC Philharmonic. John Storgårds conducts Genoveva Overture, Pohjola’s Daughter, Tchaikovsky Four, and Stefan Dohr gives UK premiere of Hans Abrahamsen’s Horn Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Aug 7, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024, Concert Reviews

Wednesday, August 7, 2024 Royal Albert Hall, London Two undeniable masterpieces, with room for a possible third, and also the engaging overture to a composer’s solitary opera, Robert Schumann’s Genoveva. The last time I heard this romantic gem it was Zubin...
BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 25: BBC Philharmonic. John Storgårds conducts Genoveva Overture, Pohjola’s Daughter, Tchaikovsky Four, and Stefan Dohr gives UK premiere of Hans Abrahamsen’s Horn Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.

BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 23: London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Edward Gardner, with Benjamin Grosvenor. Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances, and – as sketched by the composer – Concerto per un Pianoforte principale e diversi Strumenti, ad arco, a fiato ed a percussione; aggiuntovi un Coro finale per voci d’uomini a quattro parti. Le parole alemanne del poeta Oehlenschlaeger, danese; la Musica di Ferruccio Busoni, da Empoli.*

Aug 6, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024, Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos

Monday, August 5, 2024 Royal Albert Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Marking the centenary of Busoni’s death, his seventy-minute Piano Concerto in C (Opus 39; 1901-04) – “the summation of his youth” (Ronald Stevenson) – hasn’t been heard...
BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 24: Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Les Arts Florissants conducted by Paul Agnew. Tuesday, August 6 @ Royal Albert Hall, 7 p.m. Live on Radio 3. For the record.

BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 24: Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Les Arts Florissants conducted by Paul Agnew. Tuesday, August 6 @ Royal Albert Hall, 7 p.m. Live on Radio 3. For the record.

Aug 6, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024

Paulina Francisco (soprano)Georgia Burashko (mezzo-soprano)Rebecca Leggett (mezzo-soprano)Juliette Mey (mezzo-soprano)Rodrigo Carreto (tenor)Ilja Aksionov (tenor)Hugo Herman-Wilson (baritone)Benjamin Schilperoort (bass-baritone)Samuel Florimond, Anahi Passi,...
BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 21: Sinfonia of London conducted by John Wilson, including Billy the Kid, The Unanswered Question, and Harmonielehre, with Steven Osborne playing Rhapsody in Blue. Sunday, August 4 at 7 p.m., Royal Albert Hall. Live on BBC Radio 3. For the record.

BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 21: Sinfonia of London conducted by John Wilson, including Billy the Kid, The Unanswered Question, and Harmonielehre, with Steven Osborne playing Rhapsody in Blue. Sunday, August 4 at 7 p.m., Royal Albert Hall. Live on BBC Radio 3. For the record.

Aug 4, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024

Chris Christodoulou, photo Wynton Marsalis: Herald, Holler and Hallelujah! (UK premiere)Aaron Copland: Billy the Kid – suiteSamuel Barber: Adagio for stringsGeorge Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (orch. Grofé)Charles Ives: The Unanswered QuestionJohn Adams: Harmonielehre...