Last night, Oct. 1, BBC Radio 3 broadcast a recording of the London Philharmonic’s 25-26 Season opener – Edward Gardner conducting Ringed by the Flat Horizon, Tchaikovsky Five, and Yefim Bonfman playing Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ Concerto: Saturday Sept. 27, Royal Festival Hall.

Last night, Oct. 1, BBC Radio 3 broadcast a recording of the London Philharmonic’s 25-26 Season opener – Edward Gardner conducting Ringed by the Flat Horizon, Tchaikovsky Five, and Yefim Bonfman playing Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ Concerto: Saturday Sept. 27, Royal Festival Hall.

Oct 2, 2025 | Concert Soundbites

A great start with the LPO’s latest composer-in-residence George Benjamin’s Ringed by the Flat Horizon, successfully launched in 1980 at Cambridge University and then the BBC Proms, both conducted by Mark Elder, eerie and atmospheric, with an expressive...
BBC Proms 2025 – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Jaime Martín conducts Margaret Sutherland’s Haunted Hills and Dvořák’s Sixth Symphony, with Khatia Buniatishvili playing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1. Friday, August 29 @ 7.30 p.m., Royal Albert Hall. Radio 3/For the record.

BBC Proms 2025 – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Jaime Martín conducts Margaret Sutherland’s Haunted Hills and Dvořák’s Sixth Symphony, with Khatia Buniatishvili playing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1. Friday, August 29 @ 7.30 p.m., Royal Albert Hall. Radio 3/For the record.

Aug 29, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, Concert Soundbites, News, Unexpected

Photo, Chris Christodoulou The live relay from Berlin had just finished. I jumped to R3 expecting to hear Khatia Buniatishvili somewhere in the first movement of Tchaikovsky PC1. But no, there was conversation, something had happened … eventually it was revealed...
BBC Proms 2025 – “Great British Classics”. BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Nil Venditti, with violinist Liya Petrova. Tuesday, August 5 @ 7 p.m., Royal Albert Hall/Radio 3. Souvenir photo/For the record.

BBC Proms 2025 – “Great British Classics”. BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Nil Venditti, with violinist Liya Petrova. Tuesday, August 5 @ 7 p.m., Royal Albert Hall/Radio 3. Souvenir photo/For the record.

Aug 5, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, Concert Soundbites

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Why choose Vilem Tausky’s reduced scoring of Crown Imperial (if not confirmed by the presenter) in this of all buildings, when Britten and (with organ) Elgar also require full forces? It was anyway a so-so performance; “too...
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.

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 – 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.

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...