John Storgårds directs his Lapland Chamber Orchestra – the most northerly professional orchestra in the EU – making its Proms debut.
Contemporary music forms a key role in the ensemble’s work, and here the group celebrates the 80th birthdays of two major British composers – Sir Harrison Birtwistle and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Swedish trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger is the soloist in Birtwistle’s concerto Endless Parade, whose dark, maze-like landscape is matched by the languorous vistas of Honegger.
The anniversary celebrations of C.P.E. Bach continue with the spiky, brooding textures of his Symphony in B minor.
Leading period-instrument ensemble Les Arts Florissants launches the Proms Chamber Music series with the first of its two Proms appearances marking 250 years since the death of Jean-Philippe Rameau....
This year marks the 300th anniversary of C.P.E. Bach, second son of J.S. Bach and the most musically rebellious of the younger Bachs. When Mozart wrote, ‘Bach is the father, we the children’, he...
The first Greek orchestra ever to appear at the Proms presents a programme appropriately inspired by Greek myths. Furies rage, sons defy their fathers and heroines bewail their fate in what promises...
Richard Strauss was just 20 when he composed his Suite – and steeped in the conservative musical traditions of his horn-player father, who revered Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven above all. It’s a...
Dutch violinist Janine Jansen performs as a chamber musician alongside pianist Itamar Golan and violinist-turned-conductor Sakari Oramo. Although a familiar face on the podium, Oramo is only now...
BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Louis Schwizgebel made his concerto debut at the Proms earlier this season and now returns for a programme of chamber music.
He is joined by the Royal String...
Celebrating his 80th birthday this year and the subject of one of this season’s Proms Plus Composer Portraits, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is one of the greats of contemporary British music.
This...
He may only just have turned 22, but pianist Benjamin Grosvenor is already a Proms regular. The precocious British pianist returns for his first Proms Chamber Music concert, performing a mixed...
Along with fellow Lancastrian composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Sir Harrison Birtwistle celebrates his 80th birthday this year. The Proms marks the occasion with a concert from one of the UK’s...
This year’s focus on William Walton wouldn’t be complete without his witty, genre-bending ‘entertainment’ Façade. Walton’s first big success, the work sets poems by his friend and patron...
