As classical performance continues to wrestle with relevance, accessibility and representation, the Proms are under pressure to lead this change. This opening night offered progress in places, but also showed how much further there is to go.
This summer, the BBC Proms will make history in the North East. For the first time, the world-famous festival comes to Sunderland. Over four days, audiences can enjoy live music across Gateshead and Sunderland in a unique regional programme.
John Wilson & Sinfonia of London are set to bring the timeless music of Rodgers & Hammerstein to life in a spectacular concert tour across the UK in June 2025.
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic has revealed its 2025-26 season. This season marks the 185th anniversary of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and welcomes new Chief Executive, Vanessa Reed. Learn more!
The BBC Proms has announced the lineup for its 2025 edition. The BBC Proms will present an eight-week celebration of music featuring over 3,000 artists, the first overnight Prom in almost half a century and more than 80 solo debuts.
The National Opera Studio is set to present the world premiere of scenes from Perdita, an unpublished opera by British composer Dorothy Howell, next month.
John Wilson and Sinfonia of London will bring the timeless music of Rodgers & Hammerstein to life in a spectacular concert tour across the UK in June 2025. This unforgettable evening will feature beloved songs from some of the greatest musicals of all time.
Marking the Proms debut of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin), their artistic director Vladimir Jurowski conducted a lively and varied programme of works by Weill, Adès and Rachmaninov to a Royal Albert Hall high in anticipation.
The BBC Proms 2023 launches with a programme bursting with opera, oratorio and large-scale choral work and the first ever weekend-long Proms festival rooted in the North-East at Sage Gateshead.
The 2022 BBC Proms celebrates a homecoming of large-scale orchestral repertoire to the Royal Albert Hall. This year's festival will feature a programme of a scale not heard at the Proms since 2019: the symphonic music of our past responding vividly to the moment, from Verdi's Requiem on the First Night of the Proms, to Mahler's Second Symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle, to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony performed by the Chineke! Orchestra and Chineke! Voices under Kevin John Edusei.
Borrow, a protege of Murray Perahia and student of Tomer Lev, Director of the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University, has been named 'One To Watch' by both Gramophone and International Piano magazines ('Tom Borrow is...the very definition of 'one to watch'').
The MultiPiano Ensemble will focus on Mozart for its first-ever commercial recording, alongside the English Chamber Orchestra, on Hyperion Records. And the album, 'Mozart: The Complete Multipiano Concertos' includes, alongside the well-established Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra K365, and the Concerto for Three Pianos and Orchestra K242.
The prize winners of the 65th Kathleen Ferrier Awards Competition were announced last night (Sunday 13 December) at the end of the competition’s final, streamed from Southwark’s Henry Wood Hall.
Violinist Nicola Benedetti joins period-instrument group the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for a celebration of Baroque concertos.
In light of the recent speculation about the Last Night of the Proms, we are today announcing the programme for the concert.
In the year that the Proms turns 125 years old, the 2020 season brings the spirit of the Proms to music-lovers at home. BBC Radio 3 and BBC Four broadcasts treasures from the past 30 years of the Proms across six weeks, before two weeks of incredible live performances at the Royal Albert Hall.
125 years on from its creation, the Proms will once again provide a remarkable summer of music, fulfilling founder-conductor Sir Henry Wood's vision to 'bring the greatest classical music to the widest possible audience'.
The Last Night of the Proms is the culmination of the world's biggest musical festival. It's less a concert, more a cultural experience. The Royal Albert Hall is transformed with flags, banners, balloons and a tangible party atmosphere. The occasional glimpse of an inflatable flamingo or helium parrot just added to the evening's charm and eccentricity.
El Programa 9 de la Temporada 2019 de la Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional (OSN) tendrá lugar en el marco del 35 Festival del Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México y estará marcado por el sello europeo a partir de la obra de compositores como: Heilig, de Carl Philip Emmanuel Bach; Serenata a la música, de Ralph Vaughan Williams; I Was Glad, de Hubert Parry (ambas en versión de orquesta de cámara y coro), yVariaciones enigma, de Edward Elgar.
For his new recording, on the Skarbo label, the rising pianist Nadav Hertzka pairs Leos Janacek's Piano Sonata No. 1 and On An Overgrown Path, with Nimrod Borenstein's three-piece Reminiscences Of Childhood, Opus 54. Composed in 2012 (premiered by Pascal Amoyel in the London 'It's All About Piano' festival), the three Borenstein pieces offer three different ways of looking at childhood (innocence, playfulness, through the prism of memory).
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