PROMS 2017 REVIEWS FROM SEEN AND HEARD INTERNATIONAL
- Undeniably Interesting, if Surprisingly Short, First Night for BBC Proms 2017
- Barenboim’s Elgar at the 2017 BBC Proms Ends on a Triumphal Note
- Birtwistle’s Deep Time and Time for Even More Elgar from Barenboim
- A Brilliantly Entertaining Way to Begin the 2017 Proms Chamber Music Series
- All-Round Excellence from the COE and Isabelle Faust Under the Ageless Haitink
- Philosophical Dusapin and Superb Berlioz Makes Prom 7 One to Remember
- Stuart Skelton’s Outstanding Florestan is the Highlight of Fidelio at the BBC Proms
- At the Proms the Aurora Orchestra’s ‘Eroica’ offers much more than a mere feat of memory
- Sir Malcolm Sargent Celebrated in Style at the BBC Proms
- The Proms Hears an Exalted Account of Vaughan Williams’s Last Symphony
- Hough and Wigglesworth Create Harmony and Happiness at the Proms
- James MacMillan’s A European Requiem at the Proms: Nothing to do with Brexit!
- Salonen and the Philharmonia on Top Form at the Proms
- A Very Special Prom Marks the 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation
- Brilliant Brahms from Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
- The Proms Swing in Centenary Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie
- The National Youth Orchestra’s Remarkable Virtuosity in a Challenging Programme
- A Memorable Prom as Semyon Bychkov Conducts a Wonderfully Sung Khovanshchina
- Karabits and the Bournemouth Symphony on their Mettle at the BBC Proms
- A Triumphant Prom Performance of La Damnation de Faust
- John Storgårds Gives Hindemith’s Music Some Welcome Exposure at the Proms
- ‘Oh, what a Beautiful Prom!’ John Wilson Takes the Promenaders to Oklahoma!
- Dausgaard and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra provide a Proms Season Highlight
- Striking Collegiate Approach from Gavrylyuk and Dausgaard in commanding Rachmaninov
- Latvian Radio Choir’s All-Night Vigil Concludes ‘Rachmaninov Day’
- A Compelling and Altogether British Prom from Wigglesworth and the BBCNOW
- The Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Robin Ticciati in Fine Form at the Proms
- East Meets West in Stimulating Fusion at the Late Night Prom
- Oriental Musical Fantasies at the Proms from François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles
- Charles Dutoit on Medal-Winning Form at the Proms
- Sakari Oramo Leads Fitting Proms Mahler Memorial to Much-Loved Jiří Bělohlávek
- Sir Simon Rattle’s Inspirational Gurrelieder at the Proms
- Mirga Gražinyté-Tyla Tends to Rush her Fences at the Proms
- The Enchanting Voice of Christiane Karg at the Proms
- Sakari Oramo’s Enthusiastic Advocacy of Elgar’s “Third Symphony”
- The Metropole Orkest in Stunning Form for Charles Mingus Revisited at the Proms
- Noble, contemplative Brahms from Kavakos at the Proms
- An Intriguing Prom of Czech Rarities
- A Remarkable and Memorable Chopin Recital by Pavel Kolesnikov
- Glyndebourne’s Excellent La clemenza di Tito Comes to the Proms
- Chineke! Earns its Stripes with a Fabulous Late-Night Prom
- Mother Russia’s Imperial Ways: Glowering and Exuberance
- Stunning Rihm from Gatti and the Concertgebouw but their Bruckner is Less Exalted
- Haydn and Mahler from Gatti and the Royal Concertgebouw
- Thrilling and Insightful Performances from Andsnes, Petrenko and Oslo Philharmonic at the Proms
- A Schubert Quintet for the 21st Century: the Elias Quartet and Alice Neary at the Proms
- Imperial and Revolutionary – Worlds in Collision and Transition at the Proms
- The Pittsburgh Symphony Returns to the Proms
- An Imaginatively Planned Russian Prom from Vladimir Jurowski and the LPO
- Promenaders Out in Force for a Vienna Philharmonic Mahler Six Which Lacks Impact
- A Fascinating Prom from Tilson Thomas and the VPO – Not Least in the Encore
- The 2017 BBC Proms Go Out in Style