BBC Proms 2024 | Colin's Column

BBC Proms 2024 – Choral Day: Come & Sing Free Workshop. For the record.

Sep 7, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024

11:00 Sat 7 Sep 2024 Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall, Royal College of Music Join conductor Jason Max Ferdinand and special guests for a joyful Come & Sing workshop at the Royal College of Music exploring the classical, jazz and gospel music the Jason Max Ferdinand...

BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 63: Choral Day – The Sixteen/Harry Christophers. Saturday Sept. 7, 10.30 a.m., Royal Albert Hall. Live on R3. For the record.

Sep 7, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024

“English music from the time of Queen Victoria, to launch Proms Choral Day.” Parry: Coronation Anthem ‘I Was Glad’Stanford: Three Motets, Op. 38Balfour Gardiner: Evening HymnWilliam Henry Harris: Faire is the heavenIreland: Greater love hath no...

BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 62: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Simon Rattle conducts Mahler’s Sixth Symphony. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Sep 6, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024, Concert Reviews

“During a 2008 tour stop at London’s Royal Albert Hall, Cynthia Yeh, principal percussion, wields the hammer of fate as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performs Mahler’s Symphony No.6 [Bernard Haitink conducting]. Todd Rosenberg Photography.”...

BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 61: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Simon Rattle conducts UK premiere of Thomas Adès’s Aquifer, and Bruckner’s ‘Romantic’ Symphony. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Sep 5, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Thomas Adès Thursday, September 5, 2024 Royal Albert Hall, London Thomas Adès’s eighteen-minute Aquifer – a “subsurface layer or layers of rock or other geological strata of sufficient porosity and permeability to allow either a significant flow of...

BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 60: Eric Whitacre conducts the world premiere of his Eternity in an Hour with the BBC Singers, Christopher Glynn, Lesjamusic and 12 Ensemble. Wednesday September 4, Royal Albert Hall at 22:30. Live on R3. For the record.

Sep 4, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024

William Blake (1757-1827) Eric Whitacre: Eternity in an Hour, BBC co-commission: world premiere Christopher Glynn, pianoLesjamusic, electronics12 EnsembleBBC SingersEric Whitacre, conductor/electronics “William Blake’s great poem pitting childlike wonder and...

BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 59: BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus. Stéphane Denève conducts Lili Boulanger, Fauré and Ravel. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Sep 4, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) Wednesday, September 4, 2024 Royal Albert Hall, London Today marks Bruckner’s bicentenary. So, what do the Proms programme? French fancies. C’est la vie. Actually, this was an excellent concert, opening with Lili Boulanger’s...