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#PromReview @BBCProms #bbcproms If Klaus Mäkelä's Debussy/Stravinsky/Berlioz with the Orchestre de Paris the night before was a premier cru Parisien libation this early evening Prom from Stéphane Denève was an absorbingly premier cru Français celebratio classicalsource.com/prom/pro…
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#PromReview @BBCProms #bbcproms If you thought that the Bank Holiday Proms – bringing back Doctor Who to the Royal Albert Hall after a gap of 11 years – were the only time travelling concerts this season, think again. The BBC Concert Orchestra under cond classicalsource.com/prom/pro…
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PromReview @BBCProms #bbcproms Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto isn’t just a surefire showpiece that paints a vivid picture of its creator’s acerbic spirit, it’s also a treacherously difficult work conceived for Prokofiev’s own extraordinary pianistic pr classicalsource.com/prom/pro…
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#PromReview @BBCProms #bbcproms The main item in this most enjoyable concert by the visiting City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under their chief conductor Kazuki Yamada may have been Sir Henry Wood’s orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhib classicalsource.com/prom/pro…
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#PromReview @BBCProms #bbcproms Aurora Orchestra concerts have made a big thing of elaborate explanation and deconstruction of the music they are about to play, but their introduction for this Prom was their biggest yet, a fifty-minute play with actors, classicalsource.com/prom/pro…
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#PromReview @BBCProms #bbcproms Nobody does Bach quite like the Bach Collegium Japan. The ensemble makes a welcome return to the Proms for the composer’s concentrated depiction of Christ’s arrest, rendition and execution – the St John Passion. classicalsource.com/prom/pro…
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#PromReview @BBCProms #bbcproms With his Symphony No. 7 Beethoven permanently realigned Western music’s fundamental relationship with rhythm. In the process he created some of the most compelling music of his age. Young Italian-Turkish conductor Nil Vend classicalsource.com/prom/pro…
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#PromReview @BBCProms #bbcproms For Brahms, composing music was a quest to balance head and heart. The composer’s final symphony is the most exquisite example of that mission, a piece as radiant as poetry and as perfect as a mathematical equation. classicalsource.com/prom/pro…
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#PromReview @BBCProms #bbcproms Prom 27: Strauss’s An Alpine Symphony Saariaho’s work demands an ensemble that can navigate its subtle shifts in tone and colour, and the BBCSO did not disappoint. classicalsource.com/prom/pro…
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#PromReview @BBCProms #bbcproms Few composers captured life’s struggles as vividly as Tchaikovsky. ‘This is Fate,’ wrote the composer in 1877 as he grappled with the opening notes of his Symphony No. 4. ‘It hangs above your head like the sword of Damocle classicalsource.com/prom/pro…
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#PromReview @BBCProms #bbcproms If Mahler said that the symphony should be like the world and embrace everything, then Busoni seems to be doing something of the same in his single Piano Concerto (premiered in 1904). It's a notoriously monumental work, co classicalsource.com/prom/pro…
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#PromReview @BBCProms #bbcproms Prom 18: Sam Smith – In the lonely hour Smith's Prom was not merely a reflection on past successes but a celebration of a decade-long journey, filled with love, pain, and growth. As they continue to explore new musical lan bit.ly/4dtTSsZ
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#PromReview @BBCProms #bbcproms Prom 17: Vasily Petrenko conducts Tchaikovsky The excellence of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under their conductor Vasily Petrenko continues with each concert. bit.ly/4causzI
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#PromReview @BBCProms #bbcproms An afternoon of orchestral fantasy and adventure featuring soundtracks from film, television and gaming. Titles include Game of Thrones and His Dark Materials, as well as the Harry Potter and Star Wars films. A concert for classicalsource.com/prom/the…
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#PromReview @BBCProms #bbcproms Ryan Wigglesworth’s feast of English music opens with Britten’s suite of ‘best bits’ from his 1953 Coronation opera Gloriana, all about the fraught relationship between Elizabeth I and the Earl of Essex. classicalsource.com/prom/pro…
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#PromReview @BBCProms #bbcproms Orchestras all over the world commissioned symphonies from the pre-eminent Czech composer Antonín Dvořák. But there was no such commission for one of his most popular, the Symphony No. 8, which he wrote for nobody but hims classicalsource.com/prom/the…
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#PromReview Prom 2: Everybody Dance! The Sound of Disco Sound, style and fashion met in the disco movement, and in late 1970s New York there was only one place to experience it: Studio 54. bit.ly/3WuEoPH
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