Almost exactly a year after his RPO Music Director debut at the BBC Proms in August 2021, Vasily Petrenko returned to conduct the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the 'world's greatest classical music festival'.
On Tuesday 16 August the Orchestra, joined by trombone soloist Peter Moore, performed a programme which included centenary composer George Walker's Trombone Concerto, Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring and Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5. Our second and final BBC Proms 2022 concert after the huge success of our Gaming Prom on 1 August.
Read on to see all the photos and reactions from the memorable BBC Prom. If you missed out you can also listen back on BBC Sounds via the link below.
"Petrenko’s way with the openings of pieces perhaps show what he is about: the way he invited us into the narrative of Copland’s Appalachian Spring in the first half, or of Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5 in the second half, seemed to carry with them an assumption that music should not only emerge from silence, but also from a place of poise and balance, order and symmetry."
ArtsDesk ★★★★
"I was glad the trombone concerto was there, partly because its American composer, George Walker, whose centenary this Prom season is marking, has long deserved more exposure in the UK. And partly because the trombone is so versatile and such fun: a big mobile paperclip of an instrument, capable of far more than comic noises, especially in the hands of our soloist Peter Moore."
The Times ★★★★
All photos: Credit: BBC/Chris Christodoulou