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Showing posts with label BBC proms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BBC proms. Show all posts
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 ...

Folk Songs and Dances

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Folk Songs and Dances Royal Albert Hall The Prom this morning begins at 11am at the Royal Albert Hall. I am in the car, having just enjoyed ...
Friday, August 29, 2025

Late Junction Prom

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Late Junction Prom Lantern Hall, Bristol Beacon Listening back to highlights [if that's what we're calling it] of this Prom via its ...

Khatia Buniatishvili Plays Tchaikovsky

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Khatia Buniatishvili Plays Tchaikovsky Royal Albert Hall For me, it's been another proud Friday afternoon of running. Managed a 10k in 0...
Thursday, August 28, 2025

Saint-Saëns’s ‘Organ’ Symphony

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Camille Saint‐Saëns, Symphony No. 3 in C minor Royal Albert Hall I decided to take today off work, using up the lieu day I have accrued from...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

The Marriage of Figaro

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The Marriage of Figaro Royal Albert Hall Tonight I'm taking a detour into Liverpool after work, as I need to collect an Ikea Kallax unit...
Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Sibelius’s Second

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Sibelius’s Second Royal Albert Hall It's my uncle's birthday, so after work I return home for a couple of hours, then head out to Ne...