BBC Proms 2025 | Colin's Column

BBC Proms 2025 – BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Joshua Weilerstein conducts Elsa Barraine’s Symphony 2 and Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances, with Martin Fröst playing Clarinet Concertos by Aaron Copland and Artie Shaw. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Jul 31, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, Concert Reviews

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Thursday, July 31, 2025 Royal Albert Hall, London Rachmaninov’s swansong Symphonic Dances (1941; Philadelphia/Ormandy) gets out a lot (if only the same were true for the even greater Third Symphony). Joshua Weilerstein led a...

BBC Proms 2025 – BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Concertos. Tadaaki Otaka conducts Bacewicz and Lutosławski, with Vadym Kholodenko playing Rachmaninov. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Jul 31, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, Concert Reviews

Photo, Mark Allan Wednesday, July 30, 2025 Royal Albert Hall, London Two mid-last-century Polish works, both in three movements, opening with Grażyna Bacewicz’s Concerto for String Orchestra, consummately composed, she was a considerable violinist, this fairly...

BBC Proms 2025 – Arooj Aftab and Ibrahim Maalouf, with BBC Singers & Symphony/Jules Buckley. July 29, Royal Albert Hall/Radio 3. Souvenir photo/For the record.

Jul 29, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025

Photo, Mark Allan Arooj Aftab, vocalsIbrahim Maalouf, trumpetBBC SingersBBC Symphony OrchestraJules Buckley Grammy-winning artist Arooj Aftab is breaking new ground with her captivating, eclectic melting-pot of influences from jazz, folk, pop, blues and South Asian...

BBC Proms 2025 – BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Ryan Wigglesworth conducts Birtwistle’s Earth Dances & Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Jul 28, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Photo, Mark Allan Monday, July 28, 2025 Royal Albert Hall, London March 14, 1986, Royal Festival Hall, Péter Eötvös conducts the BBCSO in the premiere of Harrison Birtwistle’s Earth Dances. A sonic masterpiece is launched. Eötvös went on to record it, as did...

More than 6,270 attend the BBC Proms in the North East, with record numbers of first-time audiences and national broadcasts from The Glasshouse and Sunderland.

Jul 28, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, News

More than 6,270 attend the BBC Proms in the North East, with record numbers of first-time audiences and national broadcasts from The Glasshouse and Sunderland The BBC Proms in the North East has drawn to a close, after a spectacular four days of world-class...

BBC Proms 2025 – Royal Northern Sinfonia/Dinis Sousa @ Glasshouse International Centre for Music, Gateshead. Bach/David Fray & Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang/Hymn of Praise. Saturday, July 26; 7.30 p.m., live on BBC Radio 3.

Jul 28, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, Concert Soundbites

Photo, Thomas Jackson / TyneSight Media These composers go well together – partly historical given Mendelssohn helping to rescue JSB’s music from the doldrums. A few words on the these performances, my intention was to be silent, but nagging doubts...