Proms 2017: Pickard hasn't messed with an established formula

This year’s BBC proms might be the first David Pickard can truly call his own, but the director has not risked changing a successful formula – and there’s plenty to savour in a season that fits in Reformation, revolution, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and HullThis year’s Proms programme is the first that director David Pickard can really claim as his own work. It suggests that Pickard isn’t going to be a radical innovator. His shifts of emphasis in what’s long esta