#Latest news with #ClaudiaWinkelmanEvening Standard16-05-2025EntertainmentEvening StandardThe Best of the 2025 BBC Proms: 20 picks, from Chineke! to MozartEvery year, the BBC Proms runs the risk of trying so hard to please everybody that they end up pleasing nobody. The complaints are many and varied: too much (or not enough) non-classical music; too many TV tie-ins (do we really need a Prom built around The Traitors – July 26 – even if Claudia Winkelman is the presenter?); not enough UK-based ensembles from outside London; not enough (or too many) orchestras from around the world; and so it goes on.
Evening Standard16-05-2025EntertainmentEvening StandardThe Best of the 2025 BBC Proms: 20 picks, from Chineke! to MozartEvery year, the BBC Proms runs the risk of trying so hard to please everybody that they end up pleasing nobody. The complaints are many and varied: too much (or not enough) non-classical music; too many TV tie-ins (do we really need a Prom built around The Traitors – July 26 – even if Claudia Winkelman is the presenter?); not enough UK-based ensembles from outside London; not enough (or too many) orchestras from around the world; and so it goes on.