BBC Proms 2024 | Colin's Column

BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 58: Orchestre de Paris. Klaus Mäkelä conducts faune & fantastique and Petrushka. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Sep 3, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024, Concert Reviews

Nijinsky as Petrushka Tuesday, September 3, 2024 Royal Albert Hall, London The flute solo that opens the Debussy was as if improvised, immediately inviting, and continued to bewitch throughout this flexible, warmly played, sensual performance. Klaus Mäkelä’s...

BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 57: Henry Mancini and Beyond – The Pink Panther, Moon River, et al. BBC Concert Orchestra/Edwin Outwater. Monday Sept. 2, Royal Albert Hall. Live on R3. For the record.

Sep 2, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024

(1924-94) Henry Mancini: Charade – main titlePeter Gunn – ThemeBaby Elephant WalkDays of Wine and RosesMoon RiverThe Pink Panther – ThemeHarold Arlen: Blues in the NightHenry Mancini: Rain Drops in RioLujonQuincy Jones: Soul Bossa NovaJuan García Esquivel: Mucha...

BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 56: Berliner Philharmoniker. Kirill Petrenko conducts Bruckner’s Fifth Symphony. Motets/BBC Singers. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Sep 1, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024, Bruckner 200 (born September 4, 1824), Concert Reviews

Sunday, September 1, 2024 Royal Albert Hall, London Just over a week ago it was Bruckner Five live from Berlin. Now it was live from London, and will be live from Berlin again on the 14th (with music by Wolfgang Rihm this time) if not before Jonathan Nott conducts...

BBC Proms 2024 – Proms Aberdeen: ‘I never laid eyes on Aeneas…’ Women’s Stories from the Ancient World. Sunday, September 1, 3 p.m., at Cowdray Hall. Live on Radio 3. For the record.

Sep 1, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024

“Programme to include music by Blow, F. Caccini, Handel and Purcell. “A sequence of songs and arias for voice and lute, devised by and featuring soprano Nardus Williams, classicist and historian Dame Mary Beard and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny. The performance...

BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 55: Berliner Philharmoniker. Kirill Petrenko conducts Smetana’s Má vlast, with Víkingur Ólafsson playing Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Aug 31, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Bedřich Smetana (1824-84) Saturday, August 31, 2024 Royal Albert Hall, London Smetana’s Má vlast (My Country/Homeland)… Vyšehrad (The High Castle) Vltava (The Moldau) Šárka Z českých luhů a hájů (From Bohemia’s Woods and Fields) Tábor Blaník...

BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 54: Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos and Yo-Yo Ma play Brahms’s Opus 87 & Beethoven’s ‘Archduke’. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Aug 31, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024, Concert Reviews

Saturday, August 31, 2024 Royal Albert Hall, London Early-evening chamber music in a vast venue. Radio listeners were placed close to the action. Brahms’s C-major Trio (replacing Shai Wosner’s transcription of Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’...