BBC Proms 2025 | Colin's Column

BBC Proms 2025 – Angélique Kidjo: African Symphony. Sunday, September 7 at 3 p.m., St George’s Hall, Bradford. Radio 3/For the record.

Sep 7, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025

The multi-award winning Beninese-French singer/songwriter Angélique Kidjo and her band perform African Symphony. This unique work forms a striking and uplifting tribute to Kidjo’s African heritage, with Chris Cameron conducting the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in...

BBC Proms 2025 – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Vasily Petrenko conducts Respighi’s Pines of Rome and Vaughan Williams’s A London Symphony, with Arabella Steinbacher playing Milhaud’s Le bœuf sur le toit. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Sep 7, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Sunday, September 7, 2025 Royal Albert Hall, London This Sunday-morning appearance by the RPO opened with Pines of Rome, unusually given its roof-raising, brass-laden conclusion, leaving the Vaughan Williams to gently if proudly let the...

BBC Proms 2025 – Golda Schultz Sings Gershwin, Bernstein, Weill and Korngold with Chamber Orchestra of Europe & Robin Ticciati who conducts Schreker’s Chamber Symphony and Stravinsky’s 1945 Firebird. Saturday, September 6 @ 7.30 p.m., Royal Albert Hall. Photo/Radio 3/For the record.

Sep 6, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Franz Schreker: Chamber SymphonyGeorge Gershwin: By StraussKurt Weill: Youkali (Tango Habanera)George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess – ‘Summertime’Kurt Weill: Lost in the Stars – title song Igor Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress – ‘No word from...

BBC Proms 2025 – Chineke! Orchestra. Jonathon Heyward (replacing Simon Rattle) conducts Shostakovich Ten, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Valerie Coleman, and James Lee III. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Sep 5, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, Concert Reviews

Photo, Andy Paradise Friday, September 5, 2025 Royal Albert Hall, London As we enter the final week of this year’s Proms season, there are several works scheduled that have recently come my way in memorable performances… beginning here with...

BBC Proms 2025 – Classic Thriller Soundtracks. BBC Concert Orchestra/Edwin Outwater, with Sterling Elliott playing Korngold’s Cello Concerto. Thursday, September 4 @ 7.30 p.m., Royal Albert Hall. Photo/Radio 3/For the record.

Sep 5, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025

Photo, Andy Paradise Film scores by Bernard Herrmann, who died fifty years ago. There’s also music by Lalo Schifrin and Quincy Jones; and Sterling Elliott is the soloist in Korngold’s Cello Concerto. Herrmann: Prelude (North by Northwest)Herrmann Suite:...

BBC Proms 2025 – St. Vincent with Jules Buckley. Wednesday, September 3 @ 8 p.m., Royal Albert Hall. Photo/Radio 3/For the record.

Sep 3, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025

Photo, Andy Paradise St. Vincent joins Jules Buckley and his orchestra in brand-new symphonic arrangements from her eclectic back-catalogue. St. Vincent (vocals)with Rachel Eckroth (keyboards)Jules Buckley Orchestra She’s the queen of ‘raw emotion, electrifying rock...