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The Classical Source@ClassicalSource
27 Aug 2025
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Bruce Liu plays Tchaikovsky - Ortiz, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky/ Ravel - Philharmonia Orchestra –...

First things first. This Prom opened with a vibrant portrait of nightlife in Mexico City from Gabriela Ortiz called Antrópolis, redolent of steamy nightclubs

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The Classical Source@ClassicalSource
4 Aug 2025
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BBC Singers, CBSO & Kazuki Yamada perform Adams, Berio and Rachmaninov @ The BBC Proms - The...

No doubt about the main event. Yunchan Lim has been playing this Rachmaninov concerto a good deal lately, in Taiwan and South Korea as well as in Paris where

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20 Jul 2025
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First Night of the Proms 2025 @ The BBC Proms - The Classical Source

The Proms are back and under new custodianship. Sam Jackson has replaced David Pickard as the nearest thing to a latterday William Glock and there are

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The Classical Source@ClassicalSource
8 Sep 2024
#PromReview @BBCProms #bbcproms If Klaus Mäkelä's Debussy/Stravinsky/Berlioz with the Orchestre de Paris the night before was a premier cru Parisien libation this early evening Prom from Stéphane Denève was an absorbingly premier cru Français celebratio classicalsource.com/prom/pro…
Prom 59 Photo: BBC / Chris Christodoulou

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3 Sep 2024
#PromReview @BBCProms #bbcproms If you thought that the Bank Holiday Proms – bringing back Doctor Who to the Royal Albert Hall after a gap of 11 years – were the only time travelling concerts this season, think again. The BBC Concert Orchestra under cond classicalsource.com/prom/pro…
Prom 57: Ultra Lounge - Henry Mancini and Beyond. Henry Mancini The Pink Panther Theme Moon River Lujon Days of Wine and Roses Peter Gunn Theme Juan García Esquivel Mucha Muchacha Les Baxter Shooting Star Burt Bacharach Casino Royale Julius Wechter Spanish Flea BBC Concert Orchestra Edwin Outwater conductor Photo: BBC / Andy Paradise

ALT Prom 57: Ultra Lounge - Henry Mancini and Beyond. Henry Mancini The Pink Panther Theme Moon River Lujon Days of Wine and Roses Peter Gunn Theme Juan García Esquivel Mucha Muchacha Les Baxter Shooting Star Burt Bacharach Casino Royale Julius Wechter Spanish Flea BBC Concert Orchestra Edwin Outwater conductor Photo: BBC / Andy Paradise
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The Classical Source@ClassicalSource
27 Aug 2024
PromReview @BBCProms #bbcproms Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto isn’t just a surefire showpiece that paints a vivid picture of its creator’s acerbic spirit, it’s also a treacherously difficult work conceived for Prokofiev’s own extraordinary pianistic pr classicalsource.com/prom/pro…
Prom 44 Photo:BBC / Chris Christodoulou

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The Classical Source@ClassicalSource
27 Aug 2024
#PromReview @BBCProms #bbcproms The main item in this most enjoyable concert by the visiting City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under their chief conductor Kazuki Yamada may have been Sir Henry Wood’s orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhib classicalsource.com/prom/pro…
Prom 43 Photo: BBC / Sisi Burn

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The Classical Source@ClassicalSource
27 Aug 2024
#PromReview @BBCProms #bbcproms Aurora Orchestra concerts have made a big thing of elaborate explanation and deconstruction of the music they are about to play, but their introduction for this Prom was their biggest yet, a fifty-minute play with actors, classicalsource.com/prom/pro…
Prom 42 Photo: BBC / Sisi Burn

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The Classical Source@ClassicalSource
20 Aug 2024
#PromReview @BBCProms #bbcproms Nobody does Bach quite like the Bach Collegium Japan. The ensemble makes a welcome return to the Proms for the composer’s concentrated depiction of Christ’s arrest, rendition and execution – the St John Passion. classicalsource.com/prom/pro…
Prom 40-The Bach Collegium Japan conducted by Masaaki Suzuki perform Johann Sebastian Bach: St John Passion (Benjamin Bruns: Evangelist, Christian Immler: Jesus/bass, Yusuke Watanabe: Pilate, Carolyn Sampson: soprano, Alexander Chance: counter-tenor, Shimon Yoshida: tenor) in the Royal Albert Hall on Monday 19 Aug 2024 broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 Photo: BBC /Mark Allan

ALT Prom 40-The Bach Collegium Japan conducted by Masaaki Suzuki perform Johann Sebastian Bach: St John Passion (Benjamin Bruns: Evangelist, Christian Immler: Jesus/bass, Yusuke Watanabe: Pilate, Carolyn Sampson: soprano, Alexander Chance: counter-tenor, Shimon Yoshida: tenor) in the Royal Albert Hall on Monday 19 Aug 2024 broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 Photo: BBC /Mark Allan
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The Classical Source@ClassicalSource
14 Aug 2024
#PromReview @BBCProms #bbcproms With his Symphony No. 7 Beethoven permanently realigned Western music’s fundamental relationship with rhythm. In the process he created some of the most compelling music of his age. Young Italian-Turkish conductor Nil Vend classicalsource.com/prom/pro…
Prom 32: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Nil Venditti perform Grace Williams: Concert Overture, Karl Jenkins: Stravaganza (Jess Gillam: soprano saxophone), Louise Farrenc: Overture No. 1 and Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 from the Royal Albert Hall on Monday 12 Aug 2024 Photo: BBC / Mark Allan

ALT Prom 32: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Nil Venditti perform Grace Williams: Concert Overture, Karl Jenkins: Stravaganza (Jess Gillam: soprano saxophone), Louise Farrenc: Overture No. 1 and Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 from the Royal Albert Hall on Monday 12 Aug 2024 Photo: BBC / Mark Allan
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12 Aug 2024
#PromReview @BBCProms #bbcproms For Brahms, composing music was a quest to balance head and heart. The composer’s final symphony is the most exquisite example of that mission, a piece as radiant as poetry and as perfect as a mathematical equation. classicalsource.com/prom/pro…
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The Classical Source@ClassicalSource
9 Aug 2024
#PromReview @BBCProms #bbcproms Prom 27: Strauss’s An Alpine Symphony Saariaho’s work demands an ensemble that can navigate its subtle shifts in tone and colour, and the BBCSO did not disappoint. classicalsource.com/prom/pro…
The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo (Silja Aalto: soprano, Anssi Karttunen: cello). Perform Kaija Saariaho: Mirage. Photo: BBC / Mark Allan

ALT The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo (Silja Aalto: soprano, Anssi Karttunen: cello). Perform Kaija Saariaho: Mirage. Photo: BBC / Mark Allan
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8 Aug 2024
#PromReview @BBCProms #bbcproms Few composers captured life’s struggles as vividly as Tchaikovsky. ‘This is Fate,’ wrote the composer in 1877 as he grappled with the opening notes of his Symphony No. 4. ‘It hangs above your head like the sword of Damocle classicalsource.com/prom/pro…
Prom 25: Storgårds conducts Tchaikovsky’s Fourth. R. Schumann Genoveva Sibelius Pohjola’s Daughter 14’ Hans Abrahamsen Horn Concerto (UK premiere) Interval Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor Stefan Dohr horn BBC Philharmonic John Storgårds conductor Photo: BBC / Andy Paradise

ALT Prom 25: Storgårds conducts Tchaikovsky’s Fourth. R. Schumann Genoveva Sibelius Pohjola’s Daughter 14’ Hans Abrahamsen Horn Concerto (UK premiere) Interval Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor Stefan Dohr horn BBC Philharmonic John Storgårds conductor Photo: BBC / Andy Paradise
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8 Aug 2024
#PromReview @BBCProms #bbcproms If Mahler said that the symphony should be like the world and embrace everything, then Busoni seems to be doing something of the same in his single Piano Concerto (premiered in 1904). It's a notoriously monumental work, co classicalsource.com/prom/pro…
Prom 23: Grosvenor plays Busoni’s Piano Concerto. Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances Busoni Piano Concerto Benjamin Grosvenor piano Rodolfus Choir London Philharmonic Choir London Philharmonic Orchestra Edward Gardner conductor Photo: Andy Paradise

ALT Prom 23: Grosvenor plays Busoni’s Piano Concerto. Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances Busoni Piano Concerto Benjamin Grosvenor piano Rodolfus Choir London Philharmonic Choir London Philharmonic Orchestra Edward Gardner conductor Photo: Andy Paradise
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The Classical Source@ClassicalSource
3 Aug 2024
#PromReview @BBCProms #bbcproms Prom 18: Sam Smith – In the lonely hour Smith's Prom was not merely a reflection on past successes but a celebration of a decade-long journey, filled with love, pain, and growth. As they continue to explore new musical lan bit.ly/4dtTSsZ
Sam Smith. Photo: BBC / Andy Paradise

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The Classical Source@ClassicalSource
3 Aug 2024
#PromReview @BBCProms #bbcproms Prom 17: Vasily Petrenko conducts Tchaikovsky The excellence of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under their conductor Vasily Petrenko continues with each concert. bit.ly/4causzI
Prom 17: Vasily Petrenko conducts Tchaikovsky. Photo: BBC / Andy Paradise

ALT Prom 17: Vasily Petrenko conducts Tchaikovsky. Photo: BBC / Andy Paradise
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30 Jul 2024
#PromReview @BBCProms #bbcproms An afternoon of orchestral fantasy and adventure featuring soundtracks from film, television and gaming. Titles include Game of Thrones and His Dark Materials, as well as the Harry Potter and Star Wars films. A concert for classicalsource.com/prom/the…
Photo: BBC / Thomas Jackson.

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30 Jul 2024
#PromReview @BBCProms #bbcproms Ryan Wigglesworth’s feast of English music opens with Britten’s suite of ‘best bits’ from his 1953 Coronation opera Gloriana, all about the fraught relationship between Elizabeth I and the Earl of Essex. classicalsource.com/prom/pro…
Prom 10: Elgar’s Second Symphony. Britten Gloriana – symphonic suite Cheryl Frances-Hoad Cello Concerto, ‘Earth, Sea, Air’ 18’ Interval Elgar Symphony No. 2 in E flat major Laura van der Heijden cello BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Ryan Wigglesworth conductor Photo: BBC / Andy Paradise

ALT Prom 10: Elgar’s Second Symphony. Britten Gloriana – symphonic suite Cheryl Frances-Hoad Cello Concerto, ‘Earth, Sea, Air’ 18’ Interval Elgar Symphony No. 2 in E flat major Laura van der Heijden cello BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Ryan Wigglesworth conductor Photo: BBC / Andy Paradise
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30 Jul 2024
#PromReview @BBCProms #bbcproms Orchestras all over the world commissioned symphonies from the pre-eminent Czech composer Antonín Dvořák. But there was no such commission for one of his most popular, the Symphony No. 8, which he wrote for nobody but hims classicalsource.com/prom/the…
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21 Jul 2024
#PromReview Prom 2: Everybody Dance! The Sound of Disco Sound, style and fashion met in the disco movement, and in late 1970s New York there was only one place to experience it: Studio 54. bit.ly/3WuEoPH
Prom 2: Everybody Dance! The Sound of Disco. Photo: BBC / Andy Paradise

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