BBC Proms 2025 | Colin's Column

BBC Proms 2025 – JADE and Royal Northern Sinfonia/Robert Ames (arranger & conductor) at The Glasshouse International Centre for Music, Gateshead; Friday, July 25 @ 20:15, later on Radio 3. For the record.

Jul 25, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025

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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.

Jul 25, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, Concert Reviews

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...

BBC Proms 2025 – ’Round Midnight with Soweto Kinch (Sunderland). For the record.

Jul 24, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025

20:00 Thu 24 Jul 2025 The Fire Station, Sunderland Soweto Kinch hosts an eclectic mix of special guests, including jazz trumpeter Theo Croker and the boundary-pushing Joe Webb Trio, in this special edition in Sunderland of his acclaimed late-night Radio 3 show ’Round...

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.

Jul 24, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

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...

BBC Proms 2025 – Late-Night Berio and Boulez. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Jul 23, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, Berio centenary - October 24, 2025, Boulez centenary - March 26, 2025, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Wednesday, July 23, 2025 Royal Albert Hall, London 1925: Pierre Boulez and Luciano Berio born, the Frenchman in March, the Italian October. Trombonist as clown in Berio’s Sequenza V. If anyone was napping in RAH or at home (R3 switched on), Lucas Ounissi’s...

BBC Proms 2025 – Cristian Măcelaru conducts Orchestre National de France (Ravel, Sohy) with Randall Goosby (Bologne, Chausson). Live on BBC Radio 3.

Jul 23, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, Concert Reviews

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Wednesday, July 23, 2025 Royal Albert Hall, London Cristian Măcelaru (music director designate Cincinnati Symphony) has probably made the greater impression with his work in Cologne rather than Paris (Enescu Symphonies aside). Ravel...