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Showing posts with label classical music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label classical music. Show all posts
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...
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...
Saturday, August 23, 2025

András Schiff Plays Bach

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András Schiff Plays Bach Royal Albert Hall The first of four Proms today. It's going to be tough to keep on top of it all, and my brain ...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

Beethoven’s Ninth

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Beethoven’s Ninth Royal Albert Hall In a surprising contrast to last night, it is not I, but the proceedings at the Royal Albert Hall, that ...
Monday, August 11, 2025

Sibelius, Tippett, Ravel, and Debussy

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Edward Gardner Conducts the LPO: Sibelius, Tippett, Ravel, and Debussy at the Royal Albert Hall On the whole, the music from this evening...
Thursday, August 7, 2025

Dvořák’s ‘New World’ Symphony (Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra)

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 Dvořák’s ‘New World’ Symphony (Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra) Tonight is something of a spiritual homecoming for me, as the Royal Liverp...
Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Beethoven and Bartók from Budapest

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" Beethoven and Bartók from Budapest Royal Albert Hall Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra bring Hungary’s greatest opera,...
Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Great British Classics

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  Great British Classics at the Royal Albert Hall Tonight is, for me, the perfect antidote to all the Mahler, which I struggle with (though ...
Sunday, August 3, 2025

Mahler’s Resurrection

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 Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony I was at home with my parents on Saturday night - we had a night of Fawlty Towers on DVD - so I am therefore...
Friday, August 1, 2025

Adams, Rachmaninov again!, and Berio...again.

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 It's Friday evening and I am in a good mood, and not just for the usual reasons of finishing work for the weekend. It's August 1st,...

Arvo Pärt at 90 - late night prom

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  Arvo Pärt at 90 - late night prom. I settle into bed having got all my things and clothes ready for Friday at the office. After last week...
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Rachmaninov and Copland

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Rachmaninov and Copland It's another 'early shift' this Thursday evening, with the show beginning at 18:30 as opposed to 19:30 (...
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto

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  Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto, Grażyna Bacewicz's Concerto for String Orchestra, and Witold  Lutosławski's Concerto for Orch...
Monday, July 28, 2025

Beethoven and Birtwistle

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It's Monday evening. I have got over my Monday working day; always tough but I have found the energy to complete a 5k run after work, wa...
Sunday, July 27, 2025

Wigglesworth, Mozart and Bruckner

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 Sunday evening and we, the Radio 3 audience, are back, from Gateshead, to our home venue: The Royal Albert Hall. And tonight's theme, w...
Saturday, July 26, 2025

Bach and Mendelssohn in Gateshead

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The third and (thankfully) final of today's proms on BBC Radio 3. I say thankfully only because it has been a near-seven hour shift toda...
Friday, July 25, 2025

Beethoven's Fifth, Bruckner's Skull, and a bit o' Saint-Saens!

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Beethoven's Fifth, Bruckner's Skull, and a bit o' Saint-Saens! Very exciting prom for me this Friday night, because not only is ...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

Mischief Night

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The Royal Albert Hall  Thursday night is mischief night at the BBC proms, it seems. Once again I step into South Kensington through my kitch...

Boulez and Berio - late night prom

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  Photo: screenshot from BBC Radio 3 Instagram stories This may have been a prom where physical attendance at the Royal Albert Hall would ha...