BBC Proms 2025 – BBC Symphony Orchestra. Sakari Oramo conducts Song of the Nightingale, Tales (Tails) of the Signifying Monkey, and Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, with Augustin Hadelich playing Mendelssohn’s (E-minor) Violin Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3. | Colin's Column

BBC Proms 2025 – BBC Symphony Orchestra. Sakari Oramo conducts Song of the Nightingale, Tales (Tails) of the Signifying Monkey, and Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, with Augustin Hadelich playing Mendelssohn’s (E-minor) Violin Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Anthony Davis (born 1951, New Jersey) Thursday, July 24, 2025 Royal Albert Hall, London S-composers fore and aft, Stravinsky’s Nightingale made an explosive opening (a trombone glissando brought out), the Emperor’s court bustling, the music-making vivid and precise, rhythms crisp, character- and scenario-defining, the titular birds, one real, the other mechanical, the latter entrancing the … Continue reading BBC Proms 2025 – BBC Symphony Orchestra. Sakari Oramo conducts Song of the Nightingale, Tales (Tails) of the Signifying Monkey, and Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, with Augustin Hadelich playing Mendelssohn’s (E-minor) Violin Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.