Jeremy Denk is one of America’s foremost pianists – a musician the New York Times hails as someone ‘you want to hear no matter what he performs’.
He makes his BBC Proms debut in a recital that puts Beethoven’s final piano sonata at its core. It’s a work that blends extrovert passion with a depth that characterises all of the composer’s late works, and is paired here with Bartók’s Piano Sonata, a piece strongly coloured by Hungarian folk melodies and rhythmic attack.
We mark the centenary of Scriabin’s death with his most famous piano sonata, the Black Mass – a disconcerting, phantasmagoric musical journey and a gleeful vision of horror.
The Cardinall’s Musick returns to the BBC Proms with director Andrew Carwood to launch a major new project: the Tallis Edition, aiming to throw new light on the music of this most lyrical of...
In this concert celebrating composer Pierre Boulez’s 90th-birthday year, Boulez’s music is performed alongside Wanderlied, by Boulez’s French-American contemporary Betsy Jolas, and music by two...
Pianist Christian Blackshaw is joined by the Royal Northern Sinfonia Winds for Mozart’s Quintet for piano and winds, paired with anniversary composer Nielsen’s Wind Quintet.
The Apollon Musagète Quartet – former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists and eloquent champions of contemporary music – makes its Proms debut, bringing the European premiere of the Fifth Quartet...
In the first of a pair of Proms Saturday Matinees dedicated to early music, Belgian Baroque ensemble B’Rock makes its Proms debut with a programme of 18th-century Italian music. Orchestral pieces...
Returning to the Proms for the first time since 2007, award-winning Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie celebrates her 50th birthday with a musical party.
She performs alongside pianist Philip...
Apollo’s Fire – otherwise known as the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra – has been a lively force in early music for over 20 years. Under director Jeanette Sorrell, this energetic band makes its BBC...
We celebrate Stephen Sondheim's 85th birthday with a musical trawl through the very best of his back catalogue. Richard Sisson joins Kitty Whately, Siân Phillips and Jamie Parker to bring a touch of...
Celebrations for Pierre Boulez’s 90th-birthday year reach a climax in this performance, in which the London Sinfonietta pair Boulez’s music with that of young British composers Helen Grime and...
Eminent Russian pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja joins the Emerson String Quartet for its Proms debut in a programme of great chamber works of the 20th century.
From France, there’s Debussy’s _Feux...
