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ArticleBBC Proms 2021 lineup announced
Stars of the strings world will join live audiences this summer at the world’s biggest classical music festival
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NewsBBC Proms to return this year
The festival will take place between Friday 30 July and Saturday 11 September
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VideoLast Night of Proms 2020 in an empty Royal Albert Hall
The finale of the 2020 Last Night of the Proms, conducted by Dalia Stasevska, performed without a live audience for the first time in the festival’s history Read: Rule, Britannia! will now be sung at BBC Proms 2020 Read: Dalia Stasevska wrongly blamed ro Rule, Britannia! decision, say sources close ...
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NewsRule, Britannia! will now be sung at BBC Proms 2020
The UK music festival has reversed its decision to perform orchestral arrangements of Rule, Britannia! and Land of Hope and Glory following heated criticism
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NewsBBC Proms reveals full details of Last Night amid Rule, Britannia! controversy
Rule, Britannia! and Land of Hope and Glory will be performed in new orchestral arrangements
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NewsBBC Proms reveals further details of its live programme
The live Proms will take place over two weeks from Friday 28 August
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NewsBBC Proms reveals full details of socially-distanced 2020 season
Alina Ibragimova, Nicola Benedetti and Sheku Kanneh-Mason are among the string players to be performing live at this year’s BBC Proms
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NewsBBC Proms announces alternative plans for summer 2020
The BBC Proms announces this summer’s festival will go ahead, but not as we know it
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NewsBBC Proms delays announcement of season
In response to the uncertainty resulting from the Covid-19 crisis, the BBC Proms have delayed the announcement of their 2020 season
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VideoGil Shaham plays Prokofiev at the Proms
The violinist plays Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No 2 at the BBC Proms with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Taken from a concert on 31st July 2019.
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NewsStrings at the BBC Proms: our pick of the 2019 programme
What does the biggest classical music festival in the world offer in terms of string concertos and other highlights for Strad readers?
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NewsWorldwide birthday celebrations for Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein in 1955 The Leonard Bernstein Office has announced worldwide celebrations of what would have been the composer and conductor’s 100th birthday on 25 August. Among the highlights on the day is the London Symphony Orchestra’s concert performance of Bernstein’s first Broadway hit, On the Town, ...
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VideoAll four BBC Young Musician winning cellists on stage together
In this video filmed at this year’s BBC Proms, Giovanni Sollima’s Violoncelles, vibrez! is performed by the four cellist past winners of the BBC Young Musician competition, Natalie Clein (1994), Guy Johnston (2000), Laura van der Heijden (2012) and Sheku Kanneh-Mason (2016). The performance took place as part of a ...
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NewsVirgin Trains refuses boarding to BBC Symphony Orchestra double bassist
Margarida Castro was prevented from travelling home following a BBC Proms concert after being told by the train guard that her instrument exceeded the maximum luggage size
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NewsStrings at The Proms: our pick of the programme, released today
We’ve scoured the listings of 90 concerts across eight weeks for string concertos and other highlights for Strad readers
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VideoGordan Nikolitch plays the violin solo in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis
In this performance at the 2011 BBC Proms, London Symphony Orchestra leader Gordan Nikolitch plays the violin solo part in the Sanctus from Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis. The LSO is conducted by Sir Colin Davis and joined by the London Philharmonic Choir and LSO Chorus, and Helena Junventen (soprano),Sarah Collonny (mezzo ...
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NewsLeonard Elschenbroich steps in to save BBC Proms premiere
Cellist steps in at two weeks’ notice to take on Brian Elias cello concerto from indisposed Natalie Clein
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ArticleSol Gabetta performs Elgar's Cello Concerto at Proms 2016
Sol Gabetta performs the fourth movement of Elgar's Cello Concerto at the 2016 BBC Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo. Read: ‘There is a tiger inside my instrument': Sol Gabetta talks about her newly acquired cello Watch: Sol Gabetta’s cello transformed by light ...
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ArticleCellist Sol Gabetta performs - and sings - at the Proms 2016
Argentine cellist Sol Gabetta performs Peteris Vasks' Gramata cellam – Dolcissimo at the First Night of the Proms 2016 as an encore. The work includes the opportunity to hear Gabetta sing, while playing her instrument. Read: 'There is a tiger inside my instrument': Sol Gabetta talks about ...
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NewsViolinist forced to withdraw from Proms appearance due to UK visa process
Kazakhstan-born Anna Markova was due to perform with Le Cercle de l'Harmonie on 22 July 2016