Music correspondent
BbcThe organizers of the BBC proms encourage fans to stand up overnight, with a “magic” and “intimate” concert at the Royal Albert Hall.
Plans for the Ball of Dark Till Dawn have been unveiled in the program announcing the summer festival, which will also feature the pianist in a hand Nicholas McCarthy, the Rock Star St Vincent and a celebration of the film composer Bernard Herrmann.
The always popular cbeebies ball will come back, and Claudia Winkelman will organize a concert exploring the stretched and haunting soundtrack of the successful television program The Treatments.
The protruding facts of the classical repertoire include the Shoshtakovich Lady Macbeth Macbeth opera and the Korean sensation Yunchan Lim playing the concerto of the Rachmaninov piano no 4.
On September 5, Sir Simon Rattle will run Chinake! – Black and ethnically diverse orchestra of Europe – for the first time.
Their concert will include a performance of the final work of the American composer winner of Pulitzer, George Walker, who was written in response to the Shooting of the 2015 Charleston church.
Other stars adorning the 2025 season include the soprano of the Akhmetshina Aigul moment, making its debut, violinist Randall Goosby, Sitar Virtuoso Anoushka Shankar, American Pakistani singer Arrj Aftab and the winner of the Grammy Award Angelique Kidjo.
There will be 84 concerts in all, with a number that takes place in Gateshead, Bristol, Bradford, Belfast and Sunderland.
Tickets will be sold at 9 a.m. on May 17. Tickets “promining” by the day are £ 8, including booking costs, and seated tickets start from £ 10, more reservation costs.
Media in PennsylvaniaThe Nighter, on August 8, was planned by the organist Anna Lapwood, who said that the idea had been several years.
“I spend a lot of time at the Albert Hall in the middle of the night, by practicing, and I find it fascinating that the building is still only overnight,” she said.
“There are always people there – safety cleaners and guards – a bit like a night at the museum.
“So we explained how fun it would be to be able to invite people to this space, both physically, but also to the abstract space of being in an emblematic building in the middle of the night.”
His program will include the pianist of Youtube Hayato Sumino, the Russian cellist Anastasia Kobekina and the Norwegian ensemble Barroksolistène, whose “sessions of Alehouse” aim to recreate the atmosphere of an English tavern from the 17th century.
Lapwood says that the artists are all connected by an enthusiasm to “play” with music, citing the viral video of Sumino du “Seven degrees of flickering, Twinkle Little Star“.
“There are various moments when we hope to make collaborations,” she reveals. “But the logistics of this is all very, very complicated, in particular by trying to understand everyone’s sleep schedules!”
This summer, this summer season is the first since the departure of the director of Proms, David Pickard. He was replaced by Hannah Donat who, as director of artistic planning, had shaped the festival alongside the BBC Radio 3 controller, Sam Jackson.
“I think of proms like the classic musical equivalent of Wimbledon,” she said.
“Everyone likes to go to Wimbledon, even if he does not look at tennis for the rest of the year; and everyone likes to go to a ball, even if they do not go to concerts for the rest of the season.”
“This gives concerts a heat and an informal atmosphere.
“People are not too careful to know the repertoire upside down – there is just something spectacular in the Albert Hall and to see the orchestra on stage.”
Among the concerts to be monitored are:
July 19: the great American song book and beyond with Samara Joy. Fresh of the best jazz album for the grammys of this year, the American singer Samara Joy teams up with the BBC Concert Orchestra for a night of standards of Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holliday.
July 20: Ravel piano concerto for the left hand. The only professional pianist in a hand in the world, Nicholas McCarthy, made his ball debut, playing a concerto originally written for Paul Wittgenstein, after having lost his right arm during the World War.
July 26: The traitors. “I asked for a coat and an owl,” explains Claudia Winkelman, in front of this unique concert, featuring classic pieces “with a betrayal in their hearts” alongside the Gothic reminders of pop songs heard in the reality show.
August 2: Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony. The Canadian mezzo-soprano Emily of Angelo, whose voice was called “something of wonder”, made its debut in the balls with the Norwegian soprano Mari Eriksmoen and the orchestra of hall.
August 8: 100 years of shipping forecasts. The subtle magic of expedition forecasts is celebrated in a special concert, in the Ulster Hall of Belfast, with the advertisers of Radio 4 continuity and a new work of the poet winner Simon Armitage.
August 9: Planets and Star Wars. The national orchestra of young people plays two of the most recognizable orchestral music pieces in the world, with an intergalactic theme.
August 10: Edward Gardner directs the LPO. Making a trip through ice water and cascades in cascades, the London Philharmonic presents a quartet of pieces, including Debussy’s La Mer and Sibelius’s Oceanides – with an aquatic theme. Mezzo-soprano electrifying Aigul Akhmetshina joined its promotion debut.
August 14: Joe Hisishi and Steve Reich. The legendary composer of the Ghibli studio, Joe Hisishi, made his promise debut to the conduct of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, playing his symphony at the end of the world, inspired by the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
August 23: Mäkelä directs Mahler’s fifth. Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä is not yet 30 years old, but his electrifying performances have already made the headlines in the world. He comes to the balls with the Dutch concertgebouw orchestra to play the fifth symphony of Mahler.
September 7: Angelique Kidjo – African Symphony. “I want to show the world the richness and the beauty of African culture,” explains the Benino-French music icon Angelique Kidjo of her return to balls. Being part of Bradford’s City of Culture program, his concert will highlight iconic songs of legends, including Miriam Makeba, Fela Kuti and Youssou N’Dour.
The season ends with the traditional “last night” on September 13, led by Elim Chan.
The soprano Louise Alder and the trumpeter Alison Balsam will make turns on the stars, alongside the traditional mixture of shanties, the pump and the circumstances and Auld Lang Syne.
The concert will also include “Easter egg” from Donat for his first year in charge.
“There is a piece of music that I wanted to enter the balls for a while,” she said, referring to Storm Cloud contracts by Arthur Benjamin.
The music was originally written for the spy thriller at Alfred Hitchcock, the man who knew too much in 1934; And rearranged by Bernard Herrmann for the remake in Hitchcock Hollywood in 1956.
“The final scene takes place in the Albert Hall”, explains Dotan, “and while Jimmy Stewart chasing this assassin around the building, Bernard Herrmann leads the orchestra on stage – and this is the play that we include in the last night of the proms.
“This is one of these little winks to the public that I like to include during the season.”
For those who cannot attend, all concerts will be broadcast on the BBC Radio 3 and the BBC, and 25 nights will be televised.
