Others in the family got to this Prom, with the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Gianandrea Noseda.
It was rather a mixed bag but went down well. After the overture to La Forza del Destino, there was the novelty of Dallapiccola’s Partita, with Sarah Tynan singing in the last movement. This came over as an accessible piece and those of us in the hall or listening at home had fun trying to pick out the various influences of other 20th-century composers: Sibelius as well as the obvious Modernist suspects.
Afterwards James Ehnes played Bruch’s first violin concerto (a puller of the Classic FM crowd, as I remember from a few years ago), and the concert ended with Schumann’s fourth symphony, both in vigorous yet controlled performances.
The Guardian reviewed the concert here. I hope to follow and attend Prom 66 on September 4th.