BBC Proms 2024 | Colin's Column

BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 53: Martyn Brabbins conducts BBC Symphony Orchestra. Remembering Sir Andrew Davis. Stravinsky, Steve Reich Jacob’s Ladder, Tippett Ritual Dances, Elgar Enigma Variations. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Aug 30, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Sir Andrew Davis (1944-2024) Friday, August 30, 2024 Royal Albert Hall, London It should have been Andrew Davis conducting, but he sadly passed away in April. Martyn Brabbins now stood on the podium (his second Prom this season), the Stravinsky and Reich works were as...

BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 52: Bizet’s Carmen from Glyndebourne. Rihab Chaieb as Carmen, Anja Bihlmaier conducting. Live on R3. For the record.

Aug 29, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024

Rihab Chaieb (Carmen) and Glyndebourne Chorus (from stage production). Photographer: Richard Hubert Smith “Anja Bihlmaier conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra, mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb takes the title role and tenor Evan LeRoy Johnson plays her...

BBC Proms 2024 – amendment to Prom 54 this Saturday, August 31 @ 4 p.m. – Ax, Kavakos, Ma.

Aug 29, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024, News

Please note that the repertoire for Prom 54 has changed at the request of the artists. The programme will now be as follows: Brahms Piano Trio No. 2 in C major, Op. 87 (30’) —– Beethoven Piano Trio in B flat major, Op.97 ‘Archduke’...

BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 51: Tinariwen – The Desert Blues. Wednesday August 28 @ 10:15 p.m., Royal Albert Hall, live on Radio 3. For the record.

Aug 28, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024

“All the way from northern Mali, Tinariwen come to London for a Late Night Prom in celebration of their pioneering and distinctive sound. Esteemed exponents of the so-called ‘desert blues’, this collective of Tuareg musicians from the Sahara region of their...

Prom 50: Czech Philharmonic. Jakub Hrůša conducts Vítězslava Kaprálová’s Military Sinfonietta and Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass, with Mao Fujita playing Dvořák’s Piano Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Aug 28, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024, Concert Reviews

Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915-40) Wednesday, August 28, 2024 Royal Albert Hall, London The short-lived (through illness) Vítězslava Kaprálová’s Military Sinfonietta (1937) opened the concert, a terrific piece, of swagger and pastoral reflection, of energy and...

BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 49: Czech Philharmonic. Jakub Hrůša conducts Suk’s ‘Asrael’ Symphony, with Anastasia Kobekina playing Dvořák’s Cello Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.