BBC Proms 2025 | Colin's Column

BBC Proms 2025 – BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Anja Bihlmaier conducts Richard Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration & Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, and Sean Shibe premieres Mark Simpson’s ZEBRA (or, 2-3-74: The Divine Invasion of Philip K. Dick). Live on BBC Radio 3.

Jul 22, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, Concert Reviews

Photo, Mark Allan Tuesday, July 22, 2025 Royal Albert Hall, London In the course of any one musical year (the full twelve months) there will be many Deaths and Transfigurations, and Symphonie fantastiques – possibly too many – and the Proms offers no...

BBC Proms 2025 – BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. John Storgårds conducts Mahler Seven, and Allan Clayton premieres Tom Coult’s Monologues for the Curious. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Jul 22, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, Concert Reviews

Photo, Mark Allan Monday, July 21, 2025 Royal Albert Hall, London Get your harmonica out! Allan Clayton does just that during his singing of Tom Coult’s texts based on ghost stories by M. R. James, holding the attention for twenty-five minutes,...

BBC Proms 2025 – Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Mark Wigglesworth conducts Shostakovich and Walton, with Nicholas McCarthy playing Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left-Hand. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Jul 21, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, Concert Reviews

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Sunday, July 20, 2025 Royal Albert Hall, London If a pianist is to have only one hand, then make it the left. Nicholas McCarthy is so-favoured, from birth (1989), able to play Ravel’s masterpiece (and concertante works by Britten,...

BBC Proms 2025 – Théotime Langlois de Swarte (violin) and Le Consort. Sunday July 20 @ 11 a.m., Royal Albert Hall/Radio 3.

Jul 20, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, Concert Soundbites, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Photo, Chris Christodoulou I wasn’t planning to comment, but this Sunday-morning concert proved very special based on exceptional violin- and ensemble-playing at the service of Baroque music that received wonderful revelatory performances....

BBC Proms 2025 – The Great American Songbook and Beyond. Samara Joy. Saturday July 19, Royal Albert Hall/Radio 3. Souvenir photo/For the record.

Jul 20, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025

Photo, Mark Allan The BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Miho Hazama are joined by Grammy-winning singing sensation Samara Joy and band, in classic songs and musical standards, paying tribute to past legends. Nacio Herb Brown, arr Jason Charos and Andrew Cottee: You...

Sakari Oramo conducts the First Night of BBC Proms 2025 – Vaughan Williams’s Sancta civitas – with Lisa Batiashvili playing Sibelius. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Jul 18, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, Concert Reviews

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Friday, July 18, 2025 Royal Albert Hall, London Once past the double-voiced and compiled R3 excitement (hype), Arthur Bliss’s Birthday Fanfare (brass and timpani) made for a stirring start (BBC Two viewers receiving it first by a...