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 number of seconds), then straight into Mendelssohn’s evocative Scottish overture, given with suitable volatility, tempestuous, … Continue reading 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.