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Bill Bailey ‘proud to be British’ following Last Night Of The Proms performance

The comedian’s father watched on as he played Leroy Anderson’s The Typewriter at the Royal Albert Hall

The Independent UK

Bill Bailey ‘proud to be British’ after Last Night Of The Proms performance

The 60-year-old made his Proms debut in a performance of Leroy Anderson’s The Typewriter at the Royal Albert Hall.

Evening Standard

A Mass of Life review – magical and ecstatic Proms performance of Delius’s magnum opus

Mark Elder and the BBC Symphony Orchestra make such an outstanding case for Delius’s setting of Nietzsche that its 37-year absence from the Proms is baffling

The Guardian - UK

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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

BBCSO/Elder review – like a Klimt painting in sound

The final concert of the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s season brought us Franz Schreker’s sensual and elusive Chamber Symphony and Mahler’s intense Das Lied von der Erde

The Guardian - UK

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oramo review – Carwithen comes in from the cold

The neglected British composer’s concerto, ignored for more than half a century, only hints at greatness – but triumphant recitals of Arnold and Williams make up for it

The Guardian - UK

Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez review – still refreshingly alien

The hands of pianist Tamara Stefanovich executed a mesmerising ballet as the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Martyn Brabbins saluted this revolutionary composer

The Guardian - UK

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Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez at the Barbican review — the BBC at its best

5/5 Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a tribute to the legendary composer

Evening Standard

The week in classical: Il Trovatore; Total Immersion: Symphonic Electronics; Mad Song; Jerusalem Quartet – review

A fearless Agnieszka Rehlis leads a Verdi revival that will leave you rattled, while an electroacoustic extravaganza dives into tech and a viola steals the show in a Shostakovich celebration

The Guardian - UK

Liam Payne, Dave Myers and Maggie Smith among those lost in 2024

Liam Payne, Michael Mosley, Alex Salmond and Maggie Smith were among the celebrities we lost in 2024 ...

The National (Scotland)

Prom 67: BBCSO/Peltokoski/Kopatchinskaja review – conducting sensation reveals what the fuss is about

The 24-year-old Tarmo Peltokoski showed there’s substance to the hype with thoughtful Schoenberg – Kopatchinskaja playing with elfin grace – and an ambitious and moving account of Shostakovich’s fifth

The Guardian - UK

Prom 14: BBCSO/Järvi/Yunchan Lim review – star pianist brings subtlety and brilliance to Beethoven

The BBC Symphony Orchestra struggled at times to match the exuberance of the young Korean, making his proms debut with the Emperor Piano concerto

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: BBC Proms week one review – hallelujahs all round

First Night fireworks with Elim Chan and co, a triumphant farewell from Mark Elder, and a ravishing love triangle kicked off a re-energised Proms

The Guardian - UK

BBCSO/Brabbins: Italian Radicals review – politically charged, expressive and technical

Works by Luigi Dallapiccola, Bruno Maderna, Luigi Nono and Luciano Berio got the BBC Symphony Orchestra Total Immersion treatment

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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

The Guardian - UK

Sir Andrew Davis obituary

One of Britain’s greatest conductors widely admired for leading the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Proms

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Conductor Andrew Davis, who headed orchestras on 3 continents, dies at 80

Davis led the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Britain's Glyndebourne Festival, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Lyric Opera in Chicago.

The Guardian - UK

Sir Andrew Davis, ex-chief conductor of BBC Symphony Orchestra, dies aged 80

Musician had held top roles at Glyndebourne opera and in Chicago, Melbourne and Toronto orchestras

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Let There Be Light review – MacMillan’s monumental work needs a monumental space

The centrepiece of a thoughtfully curated programme examining light and loss, James MacMillan conducted the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in the UK premiere of his 2020 choral work Fiat Lux

The Guardian - UK

Song from the Uproar review – Missy Mazzoli’s first opera is dazzlingly original

The culmination of the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Total Immersion day exploring the US composer’s music, her first opera was obliquely staged but proved poetic and potent

The Guardian - UK

BBCSO/Kahchun Wong review – hints of musical adventure to come

The Singaporean conductor, soon to head the Hallé, chose a Shostakovich symphony for his London debut, along with two Japanese pieces forming a timely tribute to the late Seiji Ozawa

The Guardian - UK

BBCSO/Oramo review – the freshness Oramo brought to Sibelius was a joyous revelation

Sakari Oramo presented the Finnish composer’s enigmatic Sixth symphony and the majestic Seventh as a single span in a concert that also included the UK premiere of Tebogo Monnakgotla’s Globe Skimmer Surfing the Somali Jet with violinist Johan Dalene

The Guardian - UK

BBCSO/Oramo review – a fresh take on Mahler’s Fifth

Sakari Oramo proved once again what a special Mahlerian he is with this outstanding performance, in a programme that also featured an early Ligeti work and the UK premiere of an underwhelming orchestral piece by Dora Pejačević

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Prom 64: Les Troyens; Prom 65: Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony; Proms 62 & 63: The Rite by Heart– review

With a stand-in conductor and a stellar cast, Berlioz’s monumental opera came into its own at the Proms; the BBC Symphony Orchestra let Bruckner’s colours unfurl; and Aurora’s Stravinsky played from memory proved unforgettable

The Guardian - UK

BBC sells Maida Vale studios to partnership including Hans Zimmer

New owners vow to continue music legacy of London venue where pop and rock royalty have performed

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