BBC Proms 2025 – Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Maxim Emelyanychev conducts Beethoven’s Fifth, Les Indes galantes, and Bruckner’s Skull, with Alexandre Kantorow playing Saint-Saëns’s ‘Egyptian’ Piano Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3. | Colin's Column

BBC Proms 2025 – Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Maxim Emelyanychev conducts Beethoven’s Fifth, Les Indes galantes, and Bruckner’s Skull, with Alexandre Kantorow playing Saint-Saëns’s ‘Egyptian’ Piano Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Photo, Mark Allan Friday, July 25, 2025 Royal Albert Hall, London It was perhaps predictable that Maxim Emelyanychev would begin the Beethoven just as applause faded, that strings would be without vibrato, lyrical subjects would be unbending (save for the first-movement oboe soliloquy), the slow movement would mostly be quick and regimented. The Scherzo and … Continue reading BBC Proms 2025 – Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Maxim Emelyanychev conducts Beethoven’s Fifth, Les Indes galantes, and Bruckner’s Skull, with Alexandre Kantorow playing Saint-Saëns’s ‘Egyptian’ Piano Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.