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Showing posts with label BBC Proms 2025. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BBC Proms 2025. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Concluding Remarks

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Concluding Remarks Norton Cottages - 17th September 2025 What did the BBC Proms mean to me before 2025? What do they mean to me now? Finally...
Monday, September 15, 2025

Last Night of the Proms 2025

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Last Night of the Proms 2025 Royal Albert Hall Hang up the bunting, pour out the Pimms! It's the one day a year when the BBC can officia...
Friday, September 12, 2025

John Wilson Conducts Bernstein and Ravel

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John Wilson Conducts Bernstein and Ravel Royal Albert Hall It's Friday night, I have finished work and run 10k, and tomorrow I am attend...
Thursday, September 11, 2025

Brahms’s Second Symphony

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Brahms’s Second Symphony Royal Albert Hall Standard day at the office. Cycled in. Tonight - for the first time since before the weekend - I ...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

'Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony'

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'Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony' Royal Albert Hall The day at work has been rather standard. Had a friend of mine, Sean, who I record...
Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Avi Avital: Between Worlds

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Avi Avital: Between Worlds Royal Albert Hall Having had my fill of concerts for one day, I toyed with the idea of leaving this Prom until to...

Vienna Philharmonic Plays Mozart and Tchaikovsky

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Vienna Philharmonic Plays Mozart and Tchaikovsky Royal Albert Hall It is my second Prom of the day, thanks to being a day late with 'Vie...

Vienna Philharmonic Plays Bruckner’s Ninth

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Vienna Philharmonic Plays Bruckner’s Ninth Royal Albert Hall I am a day late in listening to this Prom. The live broadcast was 19:30 on Mond...
Sunday, September 7, 2025

Grieg’s Piano Concerto

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Grieg’s Piano Concerto Royal Albert Hall It's the final of today's three Proms, and the mental fatigue is cutting deep. I got throug...

Angélique Kidjo: African Symphony (Bradford)

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Angélique Kidjo: African Symphony St George's Hall, Bradford It's the second out of three Proms today. I should be cleaning my house...

Vaughan Williams’s ‘A London Symphony’

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Vaughan Williams’s ‘A London Symphony’ Royal Albert Hall It's Sunday morning, and this is the first of three Proms today. Christ almight...
Saturday, September 6, 2025

Golda Schultz Sings Gershwin and Bernstein

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Golda Schultz Sings Gershwin and Bernstein Royal Albert Hall It's Saturday night, and I'm half cut. Had a pint and a half of Gunines...
Friday, September 5, 2025

Chineke! plays Shostakovich

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Chineke! plays Shostakovich Royal Albert Hall There has been a reprise of the clement weather this Friday, after a couple of days of sketchy...
Thursday, September 4, 2025

Classic Thriller Soundtracks

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Classic Thriller Soundtracks Royal Albert Hall A couple of times during this Proms run I have commented on music taking my mind to a Hitchco...
Wednesday, September 3, 2025

St Vincent

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St Vincent Royal Albert Hall Another decidedly early-autumn day. Most of the daylight has disappeared around eight o'clock, in what has ...
Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Adès Conducts the BBC SO

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Thomas Adès Conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra Royal Albert Hall Image: https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e38rn3 Cycled into work again today, a...
Monday, September 1, 2025

Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’

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Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ Royal Albert Hall It's Monday, and I'm even more tired than usual. Managed about three hours sleep las...
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Pekka Kuusisto and Katarina Barruk

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Pekka Kuusisto and Katarina Barruk Royal Albert Hall A fairly regular Sunday routine. The food shop and laundry for the week ahead has been ...
Saturday, August 30, 2025

Handel’s ‘Alexander’s Feast’

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Handel’s ‘Alexander’s Feast’ Royal Albert Hall It has been a somewhat subdued Saturday. The weather overcast with sporadic showers. Had our ...