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Showing posts with label classical. Show all posts
Showing posts with label classical. Show all posts
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 ...
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,...
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...

The Traitors Prom

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I am cruising along the M53 when this afternoon's performance begins.  We start off with Ave Maria, and I chuckle to myself, not being a...
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...
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

French Night

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Discipline was the order of the day today, because this evening’s prom broadcast will start at 18:30, and hour earlier than previous days. C...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Strauss, Simpson, and Berlioz

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General photo of the RAH by me.  Just as last night, I enter the Royal Albert Hall via Radio 3 in my kitchen. Tonight, though, the microwave...
Monday, July 21, 2025

Mahler, and Monolgues for the Curious

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Tonight marked a shift in my attendance at the proms, as I gladly welcomed the Royal Albert Hall into my back kitchen via BBC Radio 3. I was...
Sunday, July 20, 2025

Samara Joy

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Always fun to attend the Royal Albert Hall in person, and tonight was no exception. I love the place, and I’m seldom happier than when I str...