compositions - most manifestly Panic, premiered at the last night of the Proms in 1995 - imply a certain aggression, his latest stage work, The Last Supper, written as a joint piece for the Deutsche Staatsoper in Berlin and Glyndebourne, is mellifluous, matching the forgiveness of the 鈥Flind, ...
United Kingdom BBC Proms 2022 [24], Prom 57 – Bach’s Mass in B minor: Rachel Redmond, Mary Bevan (sopranos), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Guy Cutting (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass), Choir of the Age of Enlightenment, Orchestra of the Age of Enlighte...
A Bright Future MALCOLM MILLER was at the final night of the 2008 BBC Proms in London The sea of flag waving across every inch of London's Royal Albert Hall (English, Welsh Irish and Scottish), the pops, hoots and toots ricocheting from side to side, balloons and beach balls volleying ...
The year is 1707. Two nascent German-born composers are beginning to make their mark on the European musical world. And while the similarities might end there, one thing both Handel and JS Bach did have in common was that they were to go on to...
Proms Play Second Fiddle to Dr Who and the Daleks; 1.who's Girl: Catherine Tate - Aka the Doctor's Assistant Donna - Was a Co-Host 2.orchestrate!: The Musicians Look on as Dalek Creator Davros Rises out of the Audience during the Dr Who Prom. Cybermen Stalked the Aisles and Other ...
Patriotic concert was real delight PROMS IN THE PARK Shugborough HallJUSTINE HALIFAX
The highlight of this year's Proms has been the clutch of super-varied 20-minute programmes made to fill the intervals (continuous, Radio 3). The picture they paint is of a nation fascinatedly sucking boiled sweets in the study.Quirke, Antonia...
WATER SUMMER WE HAD! It Was Wet, Wet, Wet in the Deluge and We Flew the Flag for Proms SpectacularAS THE New Year approaches, we look back on the major stories brought to you in the Gazette during 2007. In the third of a four-part look back, we take in the big stories that ...
Daily Mail (London)
IN THE first decades of the Proms, early music meant little more than Bach and Handel; in later years, of course, the selection of Baroque repertoire has become rather more generous. But still there's been no systematic presentation of the vast flowering of music from the Renaissance and ...