Proms 2022
Last night of the Proms cancelled out of respect for Queen
After cancellation of Thursday evening’s event, BBC announces final two concerts of the eight-week season will not go ahead
Imogen Tilden
09, Sep, 2022 @9:17 AM
Prom 69: Missa Solemnis review – urgency and majesty as Gardiner makes Beethoven thrill
Beethoven’s great choral work was vivid and electrifying in this Proms performance, with soloists Lucy Crowe and Giovanni Sala particularly impressive
Tim Ashley
08, Sep, 2022 @4:18 PM
Prom 66: BBCSO/Canellakis review – Jolas puts her tongue in her cheek
Betsy Jolas’s bTunes is a witty ode to our attention-sapping times, while Karina Canellakis commanded Mahler’s First Symphony with an expressive and sharply etched performance
Andrew Clements
06, Sep, 2022 @11:59 AM
Anti-empire, anti-fascist, pro-suffragist: the stunning secret life of Proms staple Jerusalem
Why is Jerusalem lumped in with the jingoism of Last Night of the Proms? William Blake wrote a heretical, anti-establishment anthem that was later gifted to the suffragists and used to rouse fighters in the Spanish civil war
Jason Whittaker
05, Sep, 2022 @4:00 PM
Proms & ENO: Glass Handel review – arias meet beatboxing in a creative but baffling cacophony
Anthony Roth Costanzo’s neon-lit ‘operatic experience’ brought together Handel and Philip Glass plus dancers, a painter … and films of erotic puddings
Flora Willson
05, Sep, 2022 @8:00 AM
Prom 61: Chineke!/Edusei review – the choral symphony gleams and teems with detail
The young orchestra brought lightness and an appealing new directness to their Proms performance of George Walker’s Lilacs and Beethoven’s 9th
Erica Jeal
04, Sep, 2022 @12:32 PM
Prom 62: Berlin Philharmonic/Petrenko review – sinister magic marks a concert of startling brilliance
Petrenko proved his mastery of Mahler’s Seventh yet again as he brought out its lurking ambiguity in a performance that hovered between dream and nightmare
Tim Ashley
04, Sep, 2022 @12:02 PM
Sheku Kanneh-Mason: ‘There was a time when I played in the bathroom’
Ahead of his appearance at the Last Night of the Proms, the cellist talks about growing up in a house full of musicians, and his love of Tupac and Arsenal
Fiona Maddocks
04, Sep, 2022 @10:00 AM
The week in classical: The Dream of Gerontius, Bach’s Mass in B minor and Nathan Laube at the Proms
Jamie Barton and Allan Clayton lead a dream Gerontius in a week of choral epics at the Proms. Elsewhere, deep listening and silence…
Fiona Maddocks
03, Sep, 2022 @11:30 AM
Prom 59: The Dream of Gerontius review – outstanding Clayton helps create a season highlight
Edward Gardner conducted the London Philharmonic and the combined choirs of the LPO and Hallé to give a perfectly judged performance of Elgar’s great choral work
Andrew Clements
01, Sep, 2022 @12:49 PM
Prom 52: Finnish Radio SO/Collon review – The Lark Ascending as elegy rather than rural idyll
The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and violinist Pekka Kuusisto were efficient but ultimately underwhelming
Andrew Clements
28, Aug, 2022 @10:53 AM
The week in classical: Australian World Orchestra/Mehta; Harrison Birtwistle Day – review
A lifetime’s experience tells as Zubin Mehta graces the Proms along with Australia’s finest, while a stellar tag team of friends and colleagues pay tribute to Harrison Birtwistle
Fiona Maddocks
27, Aug, 2022 @11:30 AM
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