A guest post from Tom Luce:
Best Bets for the BBC Proms 2023
This summer’s program of 71 BBC Prom concerts, performed mainly in London’s Royal Albert Hall, start this coming Friday, 14 July, and end with the communally remarkable Last Night on 9 September. All will be audibly accessible across the world online on BBC Sounds. Many will thus remain available for up to 30 days after their actual performance.
Characteristically, the orchestral and choral performers include ensembles from across the UK — whether run by the BBC itself — including the Chineke! Orchestra, Europe’s first majority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra. Several from abroad are among the offerings — Berlin, Boston, Bremen, Hungary, France and Switzerland.
Program details are accessible here. It’s hard to recommend individual events from so superb a total, but a few seem especially worth mentioning: on 23 July: Beethoven’s Choral Symphony and a new work, “Meditations on Joy,” by Helen Grime — pieces which will dramatically illustrate the idea that joyful music is valuable to mental health; 25 and 26 August: two fine concerts by the Boston Symphony; 27 August: Mahler’s Symphony 9 with the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle; and 3 September: a concert performance of Berlioz’s phenomenal but rarely done opera The Trojans, conducted by its probably finest interpreter, Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
Filed under: BBC Proms, music news
MEMETERIA by Thomas May 