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‘Thrilling, unforgettable … there is nothing else like it!’: readers on their Proms highlights

As 2024’s festival comes to a close, readers tell us about their favourite performances of the eight-week season that saw 90 concerts in the Royal Albert Hall and beyond, all live on BBC Radio 3

The Guardian - UK

BBC pulls peace advert from Proms programme for Britten’s War Requiem performance

Exclusive: Peace Pledge Union said text explaining Benjamin Britten’s pacifist beliefs has been pulled from Proms programme

The Independent UK

Sam Smith at the Proms review: Singer promises to stay clothed in rich, soulful and entirely appropriate performance

Recent live shows have seen Smith dance in a corset and bare their bottom, leading traditionalists to worry about their Proms performance. But the singer delivers a beautiful, harmless night of music

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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

Proms at the Glasshouse review – Rakei proves ripe for orchestration

The weekend’s mini Proms festival in Gateshead ranged widely from Star Wars to Sibelius, with the electro soul of Jordan Rakei an undoubted highlight

The Guardian - UK

Is this 20-year-old the greatest pianist of our times? Yunchan Lim, the Korean about to electrify the Proms

His dazzling playing brought a conductor to tears and sent him viral – and he’s still being looked after by his mum. As he prepares to make his Proms debut, we meet the ‘unbelievable talent’

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on patriotism and the Last Night of the Proms: time for a change

For years, Rule, Britannia! has had a divisive presence in the festival. It should make way for other anthems of national identity

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Don’t kick the seats and switch off your smartwatch: Guardian critics on how to be a better audience member

Talking, heckling, boozing: post-pandemic, it seems that some people have forgotten how to behave at events. Fortunately, our culture writers are here to help

The Guardian - UK

BBC Proms director David Pickard to step down in 2024

David Pickard will step down as director of the BBC Proms, the corporation has announced.

Evening Standard

Prom 1: BBCSO/Stasevska review – energy, ovations and defiance open season

A programme ranging from Sibelius, Grieg and Britten to a world premiere by Ukrainian Bohdana Frolyak opened the Proms with conductor Dalia Stasevska engaged and outgoing.

The Guardian - UK

The BBC Proms fights for its future

Hurt by arts cuts, gender balance criticisms and a post-Brexit lack of musicians from Europe, this year’s event is rife with insecurity. But, says Opera Now’s editor Hattie Butterworth, there is also defiant innovation...

Evening Standard

BBC Proms 2023: this year’s schedule and how to get tickets

Tickets for the BBC Proms 2023 will go on sale this week

Evening Standard

Female conductors to open and close BBC Proms for first time

Dalia Stasevska and Marin Alsop among 10 women conducting in 2023 season as festival moves towards gender equality

The Guardian - UK

BBC Singers will play an ‘important role’ in Proms, says event director

The corporation recently announced it has suspended the proposed closure of the choir.

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‘It’s OK to take risks in concerts because there it’s safe to do so’: Conductor Daniel Harding on his double life as an airline pilot

He’s been on the podium with the world’s leading orchestras but, he says, his new parallel career flying for Air France has taught him things he never learned in 30 years of music making

Evening Standard

The Proms cancel remaining events ‘as mark of respect’ to the Queen

This includes the last night of the Proms on Saturday

The Independent UK

BBC cancels Last Night of the Proms out of ‘respect’ for the Queen

Summer season of classical music concerts was due to conclude this weekend

The Guardian - UK

Proms & ENO: Glass Handel review – arias meet beatboxing in a creative but baffling cacophony

Anthony Roth Costanzo’s neon-lit ‘operatic experience’ brought together Handel and Philip Glass plus dancers, a painter … and films of erotic puddings

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Evening Standard

BBC Proms 2022: Prom 44 Ethel Smyth review - a triumphant return for her long-forgotten Mass

There’s been a recent resurgence of interest in the early 20th century composer and this was a triumphant return for her Mass

The Guardian - UK

Prom 36: Vienna Radio SO/Alsop review – tight teamwork and carefree swagger

Marin Alsop led the orchestra through lively performances of Bartók, Prokofiev and Dvořák, full of rhythmic drive, as well as the UK premiere of Hannah Eisendle’s evocative Heliosis

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: Gaming Prom; The Silent Mind; The Electricity of Every Living Thing and more

The first ever video game Prom proves a treat for the open-minded

Evening Standard

Kateryna Suprun, violist in the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, on her escape and why music is her front line

As the orchestra prepares to play the Proms, its violist explains why it’s more important than ever to bring Ukraine’s music to the world

Evening Standard

Inside the video game music revolution: ‘The whole world has changed enormously’

Ahead of the BBC’s first ever Gaming Prom, we discover the history of this rich but overlooked genre

Belfast Live

BBC Proms: World's largest classical music festival coming to the Waterfront Hall in Belfast

BBC Proms are opening their festival in Belfast on July 18

The Independent UK

BBC Proms 2022: this year’s must-see concerts

The world’s biggest classical musical festival returns next week. Michael Church chooses his unmissable highlights

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