BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 45: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Dalia Stasevska conducts Julius Eastman’s Second Symphony and Sibelius’s Fifth, Jamie Barton sings Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder. Live on BBC Radio 3.

BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 45: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Dalia Stasevska conducts Julius Eastman’s Second Symphony and Sibelius’s Fifth, Jamie Barton sings Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Aug 25, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024, Concert Reviews

Julius Eastman (1940-90) Saturday, August 24, 2024 Royal Albert Hall, London New Yorker Julius Eastman’s found-in-a-box, memorialising a break-up, Second Symphony (1983) is subtitled ‘The Faithful Friend: The Lover Friend’s Love for the Beloved’. Scored for...
BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 44: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Lahav Shani conducts Lili Boulanger, Debussy & Ravel, and also plays/directs Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.

BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 44: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Lahav Shani conducts Lili Boulanger, Debussy & Ravel, and also plays/directs Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Aug 23, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024, Concert Reviews

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Friday, August 23, 2024 Royal Albert Hall, London The Berlin Bruckner concert finished just in time for this Rotterdam Prom. A shame there was no music by Dutch composers, such as Diepenbrock and Pijper, for there is no shortage of the...
BBC Proms 2024. Prom 43: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Kazuki Yamada conducts Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite & Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition in Henry Wood’s scoring, with Paul Lewis playing Mozart K595. Live on BBC Radio 3.

BBC Proms 2024. Prom 43: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Kazuki Yamada conducts Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite & Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition in Henry Wood’s scoring, with Paul Lewis playing Mozart K595. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Aug 22, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024, Concert Reviews

Sir Henry Wood (1869-1944) Thursday, August 22, 2024 Royal Albert Hall, London On the many occasions that Pictures is performed or recorded, it is invariably in Ravel’s orchestration. There are numerous others, one being Henry Wood’s sonorous version if...