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First Night of the Proms review: 'who thought this was a good idea?'

4/5 The first night of the 2025 BBC Proms was a mixed bag, with one glaring misstep among the high points

Evening Standard

First night of the Proms review – Batiashvili’s magnificent Sibelius opens the festival

An oddly disparate programme, including an Errollyn Wallen world premiere and a Vaughan Williams rarity, didn’t quite cohere in this opening concert, but all was outstandingly played

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: an elemental premiere at the First Night of the Proms

Composer Errollyn Wallen kicks off this year’s concert season at the Royal Albert Hall. Plus, PBS America celebrates the unsung heroines of the second world war. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

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Errollyn Wallen: Orchestral Works album review – momentum and drive from the Master of the King’s Music

Dating from 2000 to 2023, referencing folk dance, spirituals and house music and including works for voices, there’s real of variety and quality here

The Guardian - UK

‘The palace called and I heard myself saying yes’: how Errollyn Wallen went from Top of the Pops to Master of the King’s Music

Written off in her youth, the unstoppable Belize-born musician has overcome indifference, mockery and abuse to become one of Britain’s most acclaimed composers. You have to hang onto your own worth, she says

The Guardian - UK

Composer Ayanna Witter-Johnson: ‘Growing up, I never once saw a Black conductor’

Exclusive: Renowned composer calls for better support of Black classical musicians and conductors in order for them ‘to become part of the fabric of our rich and diverse musical landscape’

The Independent UK

Widen access to classical music with free lessons, says Errollyn Wallen

First Black woman to become Master of the King’s Music says cuts to arts education means ‘we’ve lost so much talent’

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Belize-born composer is first Black woman to be Master of the King’s Music

Errollyn Wallen’s work includes 22 operas, and her pieces are among the most performed of living musicians

The Guardian - UK

Héloïse Werner: Close-ups review – from lip-smacking to lyrical

No sound is left unturned as the soprano-composer-musician and friends range from Barbara Strozzi to Errollyn Wallen and Werner’s own work

The Guardian - UK

End of My Days album review – soprano’s eclectic set moves through vulnerability to strength

An intriguing collection of music includes songs by Vaughan Williams, John Tavener, Errollyn Wallen and Deborah Pritchard

The Guardian - UK

Becoming a Composer by Errollyn Wallen review – from Belize to the Proms

Wallen’s patchwork of notes, essays and diary entries tells the story of how she became one of the world’s most performed living composers

The Guardian - UK

Classical home listening: Bach’s Goldberg Variations/Reimagined; Errollyn Wallen

Bach’s miraculous work is given outstanding expression by Vikingur Ólafsson, and a bold baroque treatment by Rachel Podger and friends

The Guardian - UK

Carols from King's 2022: How to watch King’s College Christmas Eve carols this year

The 2022 Carols from King's will be broadcast on Christmas Eve

Liverpool Echo

Anti-empire, anti-fascist, pro-suffragist: the stunning secret life of Proms staple Jerusalem

Why is Jerusalem lumped in with the jingoism of Last Night of the Proms? William Blake wrote a heretical, anti-establishment anthem that was later gifted to the suffragists and used to rouse fighters in the Spanish civil war

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Looking West/Philharmonia Baroque review – soaring ambition and vividly projected Handel

Julian Philips sklifully evokes the history and drama of the Cumbrian landscape while the PBO bookend a nicely contrasted new work with some vivacious arias

The Guardian - UK

‘We hear things no one else notices’: Proms composers on their extraordinary new music

The world’s greatest classical music festival is back. From landing on Mars to the life of a beehive, Thomas Adès, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Jennifer Walshe and others tell us about the work they’ll debut there

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh actor Ncuti Gatwa to be honoured at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

The 29-year-old from the capital will soon take on one of the biggest roles in television when he takes control of the Tardis in Doctor Who

The Independent UK

Ncuti Gatwa and Sam Heughan to be honoured at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Ncuti Gatwa, the BBC’s next Doctor, is return to the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where he will be awarded an honorary degree.

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Chicago Sun-Times

‘Quamino’s Map’ turns a largely forgotten slavery episode into a memorable opera

Chicago Opera Theater world premiere recalls a Revolutionary War injustice with appealing, multifaceted score and a narrative that’s engrossing (if not always plausible).

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Lohengrin; The Paradis Files

An exemplary revival brings David Alden’s 2018 Wagner production into sharp focus. And an overlooked contemporary of Mozart’s is celebrated by Errollyn Wallen

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Quamino’s Map,’ a world premiere opera in Chicago, explores the ‘burning desire’ for freedom

Chicago Opera Theater presents the piece about Black Americans settling in London after the Revolutionary War.

The Guardian - UK

The Paradis Files review – Graeae and Wallen breathe life into a woman of spirit and courage

The story of the blind composer, singer and business woman Maria Theresia von Paradis is told in this lively but uneven chamber opera by Errollyn Wallen

The Guardian - UK

‘People were always trying to fix her’: the ‘blind enchantress’ who wowed Mozart

Maria Theresia von Paradis’s piano bewitched the Viennese court – but she was tormented by quacks proffering remedies she didn’t need. Now a disabled theatre team are turning her life into opera

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