Tag: BBC Proms 2025
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BBC Proms 2025: Strategy, subtext, and the shape of things to come?
Strategic messaging dominates Proms Week 1 but what happens to critique when the mood music is set from the top?
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Review – BBC Proms 2025: Randall Goosby at BBC Proms
Randall Goosby’s poised, expressive playing with the Orchestre National de France’s refined, responsive sound made this varied programme unexpectedly rewarding.
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Review – BBC Proms 2025: Beethoven’s 5th Symphony with Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Alexandre Kantorow – Friday 25 July 2025
A Scottish Chamber Orchestra Prom of Rameau, Saint-Saëns and Beethoven revealed an emerging broadcast-led strategy in this year’s season: programming designed to be safe rather than startling. But Maxim Emelyanychev’s gritty, defiant Beethoven 5 proved a reminder of why this work is not just enjoyed, but needed.
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BBC Proms 2025 Presenters on TV and Radio 3
Your guide to people on screen and on-air at the BBC Proms 2025
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Review – BBC Proms 2025: Mark Simpson’s ZEBRA with Sean Shibe & Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique – Tuesday 22 July 2025
Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique as the original fever dream: a wild, orchestrated spiral into obsession, intoxication, and gothic fantasy. Before that, an opportunity to bear witness in the world premiere of Mark Simpson’s ZEBRA written for Sean Shibe.
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Review – BBC Proms 2025: Mahler’s Symphony No. 7
A sprawling, sometimes unsettling, ecstatic sound-world that asks only for your attention — and gives everything in return. Not for decoding. Unless, of course, you want to.
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Review – BBC Proms 2025: Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
A compelling Proms debut from pianist Nicholas McCarthy in a performance of Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, marked by glassy lyricism and a revealing, if occasionally cautious, orchestral mix.
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BBC Proms 2025: First Night of the Proms 2025
Review and reflections from the first night of the BBC Proms, with original photography, streaming links, and Thoroughly Good introductions.
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Five concerts to listen out for this week at BBC Proms 2025
Memorable tunes, big sounds, and electric experiences guaranteed to touch the soul of even the most skeptical of Proms virgins.
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5 concerts from BBC Proms 2025 for FIRST TIMERS
Memorable tunes, big sounds, and electric experiences guaranteed to touch the soul of even the most skeptical of Proms virgins.