BBC Proms 2025 | Colin's Column

Column post #9,000: BBC Proms 2025 – BBC Symphony Orchestra. Hannu Lintu conducts Boulez’s Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna and Mahler’s Das klagende Lied. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Aug 4, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, Boulez centenary - March 26, 2025, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos

Boulez, Maderna, Stockhausen Monday, August 4, 2025 Royal Albert Hall, London Courtesy of the Brothers Grimm, the Mahler (‘Song of Lamentation’ – fratricide, wedding revelries, a flute made of bone, a castle that crumbles to nothing) is early, by an...

BBC Proms 2025 – “Soul Revolution”. Sunday, August 3 @ Royal Albert Hall, 7.30 p.m. Royal Albert Hall/Radio 3. Souvenir photo/For the record.

Aug 4, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025

Photo, Sisi Burn Presented by Trevor Nelson Kyle Gordon: Soul OvertureSam Cooke arr. Kyle Gordon: A Change is Gonna ComeAretha Franklin arr. Kyle Gordon: ThinkTemptations arr. Kyle Gordon: Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World is Today)Curtis Mayfield arr. Scarlet...

BBC Proms 2025 – Hallé: Kahchun Wong conducts Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Aug 2, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, Concert Reviews

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Saturday, August 2, 2025 Royal Albert Hall, London Popular-song lyrics tell the tale, “The Times They Are a-Changin'” (Bob Dylan) and “Everybody’s Doin’ It” (Irving Berlin). Several decades ago...

BBC Proms 2025 – “Viennese Waltzes”. BBC Concert Orchestra/Anna-Maria Helsing, with soprano Erin Morley. Saturday, August 2 @ 11 a.m., Royal Albert Hall/Radio 3. Souvenir photo/For the record.

Aug 2, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, Concert Soundbites, Johann Strauss II 200 (born October 25, 1825)

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Enjoyable, but an occasional lack of innate dancing rhythms, and artless rubato, reminded that the otherwise-admirable BBCCO isn’t the Vienna Philharmonic. Yet, such as Reiner and Szell, with their respective American orchestras, had...

BBC Proms 2025 – City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Kazuki Yamada conducts John Adams’s The Chairman Dances and Luciano Berio’s Sinfonia, with Yunchan Lim playing Rachmaninov’s Fourth Piano Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Aug 1, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, Berio centenary - October 24, 2025, Concert Reviews

Photo, Mark Allan Friday, August 1, 2025 Royal Albert Hall, London The good news is that Cliburn-winner Yunchan Lim, so soon into his feted career, has taken up Rachmaninov’s wonderful if ‘Cinderella’ Fourth Piano Concerto (in its final revision)....

BBC Proms 2025 – Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir/Tõnu Kaljuste – Arvo Pärt – Thursday, July 31 @ 10.15 p.m., Royal Albert Hall/Radio 3. Souvenir photo/For the record.

Aug 1, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Arvo Pärt: Da pacem Domine; Veni creator; Magnificat; The Deer’s Cry; Für Jan van Eyck**UK premiereGalina Grigorjeva Svyatki: ‘Spring is coming’Rachmaninov: All-Night Vigil (Vespers) – ‘Slava v vyshnikh Bogu’; ‘Bogoroditse Devo’J. S. Bach:...