1 Multi-Story Orchestra
For the latest of this year’s Saturday Proms At… matinees, the series heads to a disused car park in Peckham, where the ever-enterprising Multi-Story Orchestra has its base. One of the orchestra’s co-founders, Christopher Stark, conducts a sequence that begins with Granville Bantock’s rarely heard orchestration of Bach’s Wachet Auf chorale prelude and ends with John Adams’s majestic Harmonielehre.
Bold Tendencies Multi-Storey Car Park, SE15, 26 August
2 70th Anniversary Celebration Concert
The Edinburgh international festival has been celebrating its 70th anniversary in a curiously slapdash and partial way; the officially designated anniversary concert, which ends this year’s programme in the Usher Hall, continues in the same vein. Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a programme that begins with an overture Arthur Bliss wrote for the festival in 1956 and ends with Strauss’s Emperor Waltz, taking in Shostakovich, Mahler, Vaughan Williams and an audio-video work by Ned Bigham and Gerry Fox along the way.
Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 27 August
3 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Amsterdam’s hometown band have few peers among the world’s great orchestras, and thankfully their London appearances have become far more regular in recent years. But it’s almost a decade since the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra last appeared at the Proms. They return now with their newly installed chief conductor, Daniele Gatti, who succeeded Mariss Jansons last autumn.
Royal Albert Hall, SW7, 1-2 September
