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TV tonight: our highlights for Friday, July 18, including First Night of the Proms

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The Best of the 2025 BBC Proms: 20 picks, from Chineke! to Mozart

As the Proms head back to London, another season of music variety beckons. Nick Kimberley picks out the ones worth grabbing tickets for

Evening Standard

The Proms 2025 season offers plenty both to cherish and challenge

Alongside rareties such as Birtwistle’s Earth Dances and Reich’s The Desert Music there’s some intriguing and ambitious new music coming to this year’s festival

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New heights, fond farewells and daring acrobatics – the year in classical music

It was a thrilling year with glittering new works, an electrifying Proms season, Puccini in a laundry and Britten on a trapeze

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TV tonight: for an utterly joyous hour, watch the best of this year’s Proms

From Mark Elder’s final performance with the Hallé to the Kanneh-Masons covering Bob Marley, relive all of this year’s most epic Proms. Plus: Funny Woman is back. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: The Marriage of Figaro; Proms 53, 54, 55 & 56 – review

Notable cameos and young new leads light up David McVicar’s latest Mozart revival. At the Proms, a moving tribute to conductor Andrew Davis and streamlined perfection from the Berlin Phil

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TV tonight: the most well-known piece of classical music turns 200

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is joyously celebrated at the Proms. Plus: what happened when a pilot was sucked halfway out of the cockpit. Here’s what to watch this evening

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First Night of the Proms review – a thrilling adventure ride

A seemingly safe ticket – Handel, Bruckner, Clara Schumann and Beethoven’s Fifth – became in the hands of Elim Chan and the BBCSO a dazzling, joyous launch night

The Guardian - UK

How to watch First Night of the Proms 2024: stream classical music festival FREE online

Our guide explains how to watch First Night of the Proms online, live Friday, July 19 on BBC Two or to stream on BBC iPlayer from anywhere in the world.

WhatToWatch

BBC Proms 2024: classical experts on their top Royal Albert Hall picks from Beethoven to Sam Smith

Ahead of Prom season kicking off this weekend here’s what to book, from those in the know

Evening Standard

This Proms season ticks all the boxes and promises special things

After the disruptions of Covid, director David Pickard has managed to balance innovation with tradition in his final year of programming the festival

The Guardian - UK

BBC unveils 2024 Proms lineup: Daniel Barenboim, Daleks and disco

The 81-year-old conductor makes a rare UK visit with his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, while Yo-Yo Ma, Doctor Who, Florence Welch, Sam Smith and Rule, Britannia! all feature

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Cellist at Prince Harry’s wedding says Proms should drop Rule, Britannia!

Patriotic song makes people ‘feel uncomfortable’, Sheku Kanneh-Mason tells Desert Island Discs

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BBC Proms director David Pickard to step down after nine years

Pickard will leave post after next summer’s classical music festival and says it feels like right time to go

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Pro-EU activists crash BBC's Last Night of the Proms with a wave of flags

Brexiteers were outraged online after seeing thousands of EU flags waving during a rendition of “Rule, Britannia!” as part of the BBC Proms in…

The Guardian - UK

‘A more hopeful kind of patriotism’: a first-timer goes to the Last Night of the Proms

Streamers, balloons, EU flags – and musical greatness – filled the air during a fun, energetic and diverse final concert of the Proms season. We sent a Last Night novice along to have his preconceptions shattered

The Guardian - UK

Brexiters outraged after crowds wave EU flag at Last Night of the Proms

A campaign by a pro-Europe group led to EU flags being waved during Rule, Britannia!

Evening Standard

BBC Proms: Aurora Orchestra Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring from memory review - hair-raisingly exciting

This is a score that strikes terror into the heart of seasoned players – even with the music in front of them

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The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Charlotte Rampling stars in a slow-burn Danish crime thriller

The second season of DNA continues to get murkier. Plus, a magical night of fantasy music at the Proms. Here’s what to watch tonight

The Guardian - UK

Proms 45 & 46: BBCSO/Oramo; Manchester Collective review – Mahler with martial zeal and shimmering electronic works

Mahler’s Third Symphony is a huge undertaking, impressively played by the BBCSO, followed by a rare late-night excursion into contemporary works

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Proms 38 & 39; Prom 40; Trouble in Tahiti – review

Three Hungarian-inspired proms combine sizzling energy, Bartók and dadaist absurdity, while an intimate staging ramps up the angst in a bite-size Bernstein

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Proms 30: Sinfonia of London/Wilson; Prom 31: Dialogues of the Carmelites; Oxford piano festival – review

The Albert Hall swooned to the sound of the Sinfonia of London and was silenced by Glyndebourne’s semi-staged Poulenc, while in Oxford you couldn’t move for great pianists

Evening Standard

‘Near fight’ at the Royal Albert Hall over noisy Proms popcorn

Classical music fans say the newly sold snack is disrupting concerts

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: The Banksy Story; I’m Not Here to Hurt You; Prom 13; Academy – review

A Radio 4 series dives too deep with the street artist, while the Irish Independent goes big on ripping true crime yarn. Plus, an otherworldly gem at the Proms

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: BBC Proms week one; Ariadne auf Naxos – review

Record viewing and listening figures, plus keyboard wizardry from Paul Lewis, Benjamin Grosvenor and Stephen Hough, kicked off another year at the Proms. Elsewhere, Strauss’s Cretan romcom laid bare

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