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BBC Proms Reviews: 2008 Archive
Prom 73 Prom 73
Royal Albert Hall
Invisible choirs, a wind machine, and a couple of boos make this one of the most unusual yet interesting Proms of the season.
Prom 72 Prom 72
Royal Albert Hall
After an absence of twenty years, Murray Perahia returns to the Proms with a superb performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 24.
Prom 71 Prom 71
Royal Albert Hall
Bernard Haitink's first appearance at the Proms with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra fails to put a fire under the belly of Mahler's 6th.
Prom 70 Prom 70
Royal Albert Hall
Messiaen's six-hour opera - a meditation on the life of St Francis of Assisi, makes for a suitably epic and transcendental prom.
Prom 69 Prom 69
Royal Albert Hall
Thea Musgrave's Rainbow is the only work that properly shines in an otherwise unbalanced Prom from the RSNO under Stephan Denève.
Prom 68 Prom 68
Royal Albert Hall
Vladimir Jurowski conducts the London Philharmonic and BBC Singers in a programme of works by Rimsky-Korsakov and Stravinsky.
Prom 67 Prom 67
Royal Albert Hall
The vastness of the Royal Albert Hall is no stumbling block for the intimacy of Messiaen's Quartet For The End Of Time.
Prom 66 Prom 66
Royal Albert Hall
Christine Rice is vocalist for Elgar's Sea Pictures, doubled in this BBC National Orchestra of Wales concert with Tchaikovsky's Pathétique.
Prom 65 Prom 65
Royal Albert Hall
The Berliners deliver revelatory performances of Brahms and Shostakovich under Sir Simon Rattle's inspired baton.
Prom 64 Prom 64
Royal Albert Hall
Simon Rattle makes the first of two visits with the BPO, playing Wagner and Messiaen's almighty Turangalóla-Symphonie.
Prom 62 Prom 62
Royal Albert Hall
National treasure Sir Colin Davis galvinises the Mahler Jugendorchester in an explosive concert of Beethoven and Sibelius.
PCM7 PCM 7
Cadogan Hall
Mark Padmore joins the Nash Ensemble as vocalist for Vaughan Williams' On Wenlock Edge, as a Proms Chamber Music recital.
Prom 57 Prom 57
Royal Albert Hall
Lorin Maazel conducts the New York Philharmonic in a new piece by Steven Stucky plus works by Gershwin and Stravinsky.
Prom 55 Prom 55
Royal Albert Hall
Susanna Mälkki replaces an indisposed Peter Eötvös for a mixed programme including Ravel's song-cycle Shéhérazade.
Prom 54 Prom 54
Royal Albert Hall
Andrew Davis and the BBC Symphony Orchestra devote a programme to Vaughan Williams, with an impressive line-up of soloists.
Prom 51 Prom 51
Royal Albert Hall
Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts Bach's St John Passion as part of Bach Day, with tenor Mark Padmore as the Evangelist.
Prom 48 Prom 48
Royal Albert Hall
Markus Stenz conducts the Gürzenich Orchestra in a recreation of the programme for the premiere of Mahler's 5th in 1904.
Prom 47 Prom 47
Royal Albert Hall
Amanda Roocroft portrays another of Janacek's tragic heroines in the BBCSO's concert performance of Osud, conducted by Jiri Belohlavek.
Prom 46 Prom 46
Royal Albert Hall
Valery Gergiev conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in a complete performance of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Sleeping Beauty.
Prom 45 Prom 45
Royal Albert Hall
The World Premiere of Jonathan Harvey's Speakings features in an evening of electronic and acoustic exploration.
Prom 44 Prom 44
Royal Albert Hall
Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra premiere Elliott Carter's Soundings, a work dedicated to Daniel Barenboim.
Prom 43 Prom 43
Royal Albert Hall
Richard Hickox conducts an eclectic programme that includes Nigel Osborne's Flute Concerto and Vaughan Williams' Flos Campi.
Prom 41 Prom 41
Royal Albert Hall
Charles Mackerras conducts the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in a performance of Handel's oratorio Belshazzar.
Prom 40 Prom 40
Royal Albert Hall
Pierre Boulez conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in an all-Janacek programme, including a reconstructed Glagolitic Mass.
Prom 39 Prom 39
Royal Albert Hall
Daniel Barenboim and members of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra do a late night prom of Stravinsky's charming The Soldier's Tale.
Prom 34 Prom 34
Royal Albert Hall
Miro Dvorsky and Barbara Frittoli star in a concert performance of Puccini's Il Tabarro, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda.
Prom 29 Prom 29
Royal Albert Hall
Leonard Slatkin and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra give the world premiere of Chen Yi's BBC commission Olympic Fire.
Prom 23 Prom 23
Royal Albert Hall
Donald Runnicles conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with Johan Botha and Karen Cargill as soloists in Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde.
Prom 20 Proms 20 & 21
Royal Albert Hall
Stockhausen Day celebrates the work of the composer who died at the end of last year, including a UK and World Premiere.
Prom 19 Prom 19
Royal Albert Hall
Vasily Petrenko and his Liverpool forces premiere a work by Composer in the House Kenneth Hesketh, alongside Beethoven and Rachmaninov.
Prom 18 Prom 18
Royal Albert Hall
Emmanuelle Haïm conducts the semi-staged Glyndebourne production of Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppaea, with Danielle de Niese.
Prom 15 Prom 15
Royal Albert Hall
David Robertson conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a stimulating programme of works by Beethoven and Elliott Carter.
PCM2 PCM 2
Cadogan Hall
The season's second Proms Chamber Music concert features I Fagiolini, with Barokksolistene, and music by Claudio Monteverdi.
Prom 14 Prom 14
Royal Albert Hall
Just one work for Prom 14: Messiaen's massive La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, conducted by Thierry Fischer.
Prom 13 Prom 13
Royal Albert Hall
Our 10 year old reporter reviews the Proms' first ever Doctor Who concert, which saw the Royal Albert Hall taken over by Daleks.
Prom 10 Prom 10
Royal Albert Hall
Yevgeny Sudbin is the soloist for Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 1, Yan Pascal Tortelier conducts the BBC Philharmonic.
Prom 8 Prom 8
Royal Albert Hall
The Tallis Scholars, under Peter Phillips, perform Renaissance works by Obrecht and Josquin des Prez at a late night Prom.
Prom 6 PCM 1 and Prom 6
Cadogan Hall/Royal Albert Hall
Pierre-Laurent Aimard kicks off the Proms Chamber Music events and Myung-Whun Chung conducts French masterpieces in the evening.
Prom 4 Proms 4 and 5
Royal Albert Hall
The BBC Proms' first ever free concert is part of a day devoted to an exploration of folk music in its many forms and influences.
Prom 2 Proms 2 and 3
Royal Albert Hall
Nigel Kennedy returns to the BBC Proms after 20 years, firstly with the BBC Concert Orchestra, then his own Quintet.
Prom 1 First Night of the Proms
Royal Albert Hall
Jirí Belohlávek and the BBC Symphony Orchestra get the BBC Proms season off to a rousing start with Strauss, Messiaen, Carter and Scriabin.
BBC Proms reviews archive
  BBC Proms Reviews: 2008
  BBC Proms Reviews: 2007
  BBC Proms Reviews: 2006
  BBC Proms Reviews: 2005
2009 proms reviews
Prom 74:
Vienna Philharmonic / Mehta


Prom 73:
Vienna Philharmonic / Welser-Möst


Prom 70:
Royal Philharmonic / Maxwell Davies / Walker


Prom 69:
Leipzig Gewandhaus / Chailly


Prom 65:
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester / Nott


Prom 63:
BBC SO / Robertson


Prom 62:
Royal Concertgebouw / Jansons


Prom 58:
Netherlands Wind Ensemble / Vis


Prom 55:
BBC SO / Runnicles


Prom 53:
OAE / Norrington


Prom 50:
West-Eastern Divan / Barenboim


Prom 48 & 49:
West-Eastern Divan / Barenboim


Prom 46:
BBC SO / Bychkov


Prom 45:
Ukelele Orchestra of GB


Prom 43:
Philharmonia / Salonen


Prom 39:
BBC SO / Brabbins / Wigglesworth


Prom 36:
The Sixteen / Christophers


Prom 35:
BBC Concert Orchestra / Mackerras


Prom 31:
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain / Petrenko


Prom 28:
BBC Philharmonic / Noseda


Prom 27:
London Sinfonietta / Atherton


Prom 20:
SCO / Nézet-Séguin


Prom 18:
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra / Nott


Prom 15:
BBC SO / Belohlávek


Prom 7:
OAE / Christie


Prom 5:
LSO / Haitink


Prom 4:
Concerto Copenhagen / Mortensen


Prom 2:
Gabrieli Consort & Players / McCreesh


Prom 1:
BBC SO / Belohlávek




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