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Times
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
The best Proms to book for summer 2025 — and how to watch on TV
Y our cultural summer begins here with the BBC Proms season of concerts: 86 performances, with stars ranging from Simon Rattle to Alison Balsom, Klaus Makela to Yunchan Lim. The season begins on July 18 at the Royal Albert Hall, but there are 14 concerts taking place outside London this year, including in Bradford (this year's UK City of Culture), Bristol and Gateshead. This is the first year in which the Radio 3 controller Sam Jackson takes direct control of running the festival. If he is seen as a crowd-pleaser, there is still plenty of chewy fare in the lineup, including seminal works by anniversary composers Berio and Boulez. Shostakovich and Ravel anniversaries are also being marked with generous helpings of works — don't worry, that includes the dreaded earworm Boléro. Claudia Winkleman dons her hood for the first Traitors Prom, including music from the hit series and inspired by it. Visiting international orchestras include the Royal Concertgebouw and the Vienna Philharmonic.
The Guardian
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Adès, Leith, Marsey: Orchestral Works album review – an impressive collection marks a productive association
Since 2023 Thomas Adès has been artist-in-residence with the Hallé Orchestra. He has featured as composer, conductor and pianist in his appearances with the orchestra, and all his concerts have included new or nearly new works, both his own and by composers he admires. As the residency comes to an end, this collection brings together pieces he has conducted in Manchester; there are four by Adès himself, alongside William Marsey's Man With Limp Wrist and Oliver Leith's Cartoon Sun. Of the four pieces by Adès, only one is substantial. Aquifer, which he wrote last year for Simon Rattle and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, is a densely packed 17-minute movement, which contains enough ideas to power a symphony at least twice as long, before being brought to a halt by the most common-or-garden of cadences. Tower – for Frank Gehry is a fanfare, and both Shanty and Dawn, composed during lockdown in 2020, are pieces that work wonders with repeated phrases. Marsey's musical narrative, in eight 'scenes', is a strangely evocative succession of musical ghosts, inspired by paintings by Salman Toor, while Leith's wacky processional, punctuated by enormous climaxes, leaves an exhilarating impression. It's altogether an impressive disc, a fine record of a productive association, though it's a shame there was no room on it for the exceptional performance of his own Tevot that Adès conducted in Bridgewater Hall too. This article includes content hosted on We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as the provider may be using cookies and other technologies. To view this content, click 'Allow and continue'. Listen on Apple Music (above) or Spotify
The Guardian
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Adès, Leith, Marsey: Orchestral Works album review – an impressive collection marks a productive association
Since 2023 Thomas Adès has been artist-in-residence with the Hallé Orchestra. He has featured as composer, conductor and pianist in his appearances with the orchestra, and all his concerts have included new or nearly new works, both his own and by composers he admires. As the residency comes to an end, this collection brings together pieces he has conducted in Manchester; there are four by Adès himself, alongside William Marsey's Man With Limp Wrist and Oliver Leith's Cartoon Sun. Of the four pieces by Adès, only one is substantial. Aquifer, which he wrote last year for Simon Rattle and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, is a densely packed 17-minute movement, which contains enough ideas to power a symphony at least twice as long, before being brought to a halt by the most common-or-garden of cadences. Tower – for Frank Gehry is a fanfare, and both Shanty and Dawn, composed during lockdown in 2020, are pieces that work wonders with repeated phrases. Marsey's musical narrative, in eight 'scenes', is a strangely evocative succession of musical ghosts, inspired by paintings by Salman Toor, while Leith's wacky processional, punctuated by enormous climaxes, leaves an exhilarating impression. It's altogether an impressive disc, a fine record of a productive association, though it's a shame there was no room on it for the exceptional performance of his own Tevot that Adès conducted in Bridgewater Hall too. This article includes content hosted on We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as the provider may be using cookies and other technologies. To view this content, click 'Allow and continue'. Listen on Apple Music (above) or Spotify
Times
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
The best Proms to book for summer 2025
Your cultural summer begins here. The BBC Proms has announced its season of concerts: 86 performances, with stars ranging from Simon Rattle to Alison Balsom, Klaus Makela to Yunchan Lim. The season begins on July 18 at the Royal Albert Hall, but there are 14 concerts taking place outside London this year, including in Bradford (this year's UK City of Culture), Bristol and Gateshead. This is the first year in which Radio 3 controller Sam Jackson takes direct control of running the festival. If he is seen as a crowdpleaser, there is still plenty of chewy fare in the lineup, including seminal works by anniversary composers Berio and Boulez. Shostakovich and Ravel anniversaries are also being marked with generous helpings of works — don't
