Prom 71: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique perfrom Berlioz

Loading, please wait...

Antoine Tamestit, 11th February

Antoine Tamestit reflects on a much misunderstood work, initially rejected by Niccolò Paganini, and how he learnt to breathe life into the role of Byron's "Childe Harold".

Byron's Harold the unlikely star in Gardiner's Berlioz Prom

Mark Pullinger, 5th September

Antoine Tamestit takes a peripatetic approach to Byron's brooding hero, while Joyce DiDonato dies – twice – as Cleopatra and Dido.

*****