Aug 4, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024
“Songs and Dances with the Kanneh-Masons and the Fantasia Orchestra conducted by Tom Fetherstonhaugh for music including Brahms, Dvořák, and Stevie Wonder.” Trad. (Serbian arr. H. Baker, T. Fetherstonhaugh & S. Kanneh-Mason): Ajde JanoTrad. (arr. H....
Aug 3, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024, Concert Reviews, Holst 150 (born September 21, 1874), Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]
Saturday, August 3, 2024 Royal Albert Hall, London It’s worth exploring beyond The Planets and not just in ‘Holst 150’ year (the composer born on September 21, 1874). Inspired by a Sanskrit poem, translated by Holst, The Cloud Messenger (1913)...
Aug 2, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024
“Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Simon Hale with singer Sam Smith perform their seminal debut solo album In the Lonely Hour.”Ten years on from its original release, the album’s autobiographical tracks on the theme of unrequited...
Aug 2, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024, Charles Ives 150: born October 20, 1874
Thursday, August 1, 2024 Royal Albert Hall, London iii: ‘Sirènes’* For an encore Kozhukhin played ‘In Church’ from Tchaikovsky’s Album for the Young (Opus 39). https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0021bx2
Jul 31, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024, Concert Reviews
Wednesday, July 31, 2024 Royal Albert Hall, London I shall be diplomatic about Cassandra Miller’s I cannot love without trembling (viola and orchestra): it’s not for me. Shostakovich Four is another matter. Withdrawn shortly before its premiere in 1936...
Jul 30, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024, Concert Reviews
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 Royal Albert Hall, London Opening the concert was the world premiere of Anna Clyne’s The Gorgeous Nothings, setting words by Emily Dickinson, “scored for orchestra, amplified voices [the seven-member Swingles] and real-time...