Music correspondent
BBCThe BBC proms organizers are encouraging fans to get awake all night, with a “magical” and “intimate” concert after schedule at the Royal Albert Hall.
The plans for the dark Till Dawn Prom presented themselves in the program announced by the summer festival, which will also feature the pianist of one hand Nicholas McCarthy, the rock star St Vincent and a celebration of the film composer Bernard Herrmann.
The always popular Cbebies Prom will return, and Claudia Winkelman will organize a concert that explores the tense and disturbing soundtrack of the successful television show The Traitars.
The most prominent aspects of the classic repertoire include the Opera of Shhtakovich, Lady Macbeth, and the Korean sensation Yunhan Lim interpreting the piano concert of Rachmaninov no 4.
On September 5, Sir Simon Rattle will take Chineke! – The first minority and ethnic orchestra orchestra in Europe, for the first time.
His concert will include a presentation of the final work of the American composer of Pulitzer George Walker, which was written in response to the shooting of the Charleston Church 2015.
Other stars that adorn the 2025 season include soprano of the moment in Aigul Akhmetshina, making their debut in the graduation dance, the violinist Randall Goosby, the virtuoso Sitar Anoushka Sankar, the paquistani singer, throwing aptab and Grammywinninner.
There will be 84 concerts in total, with a number that will take place in Gateshead, Bristol, Bradford, Belfast and Sunderland.
Tickets go on sale at 9 am on May 17. The “promising” tickets on the day cost £ 8, including reserve rates, and sitting tickets begin from £ 10 more reserve rates.
PA mediaOrganist Anna Lapwood plans the night, who said the idea had been several years.
“I spend a lot of time at Albert Hall in the middle of the night, practicing, and it seems fascinating that the building is still working during the night,” she says.
“There are always people there, cleaners and security guards, a little like a night in the museum.
“So we talk about how fun it would be to be able to invite people to that space, both fisical, as well as the abstract space of being in an iconic building in the middle of the night.”
His program will include the YouTube Hayato Sumino pianist, the Russian cellist Anastasia Kobekina and the Norwegian Barroksolistene team, whose “Alehouse sessions” aim to recreate the atmosphere of an English tavern of the seventeenth century.
Lapwood says that artists are connected by an enthusiasm for “brass” with music, citing the viral video of the “seven degrees of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.”
“There are varied moments in which we hope to do some collaborations,” “But the logistics of this is very, very complicated, especially trying to find out everyone’s sleep schedules!”
This summer’s season is the first since the departure of the David Pickard graduation director. She has been replaced by Hannah Donat, who, as director of artistic planning, had shaped the festival with the BBC Radio 3 controller, Sam Jackson.
“I think of graduation dance as classical music equivalent to Wimbledon,” she says.
“Everyone likes to go to Wimbledon, even if they don’t see tennis for the rest of the year; they already like to go to a graduation dance, even if they are not going to concerts for the rest of the season.”
“Give concerts a warmth and informal atmosphere.
“People don’t care too much about knowing the repertoire from inside out: there is something spectacular at Albert Hall and see the orchestra on stage.”
Among the concerts to consider are:
July 19: The Great American Songbook and Beyond With Samara Joy. Just won the best jazz album in the Grammys this year, American singer Samara Joy joins with the BBC concert orchestra for a night of her standards Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holliday.
July 20: Ravel piano concert for the left hand. The only professional concert pianist with a professional hand in the world, Nicholas McCarthy, makes his debut in the graduation, playing an originally written concert for Paul Wittgenstein, after he lost his current right arm of World War I.
July 26: The traitors. “I have asked for a layer and an owl,” says Claudia Winkelman, before this unique concert, with classical pieces.
August 2: Mahler’s resurrection symphony. The Canadian mezzo -soprano Emily D’Angelo, whose voice has been called “A Thing of Wonder”, makes her graduation debut with the Norwegian soprano Mari Eriksmoen and the Hallé orchestra.
August 8: 100 years of the shipping forecast. The subtle magic of the shipping prognosis is celebrated in a special concert, in the Ulster Hall of Belfast, with the radio continuity announcers 4 and a new work of the poet Laureado Simon Armitage.
August 9: The Planets and Star Wars. The National Youth Orchestra touches 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 frozen waters and waterfalls in waterfall, the London Philharmonic presents a quartet of pieces, including the Mer of Debussy and Sibelius’s Oceanides, with an aquatic theme. The Mezzo-Soprano Electrizar Aigul Akhmetshina joins, for its debut in the graduation.
August 14: Joe Hisaishi and Steve Reich. The legendary study of the Ghibli study Joe Hisaishi makes his debut in the graduation dance carried out by the Royal Filharmonic Orchestra, interpreting the end of the world to its symphony, inspired by the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
August 23: Mäkelä directs Mahler’s fifth. The Finnish director Klaus Mäkelä is not 30 years old yet, but his electrifying actions have already reached the headlines worldwide. He arrives at the graduation dance with the Dutch Concertgebouw orchestra, to play Mahler’s Fifth Leonine Symphony.
September 7: Angelique Kidjo – African Symphony. “I want to show the world the richness and beauty of African culture,” says the Benin-French music icon Angelique Kidjo or his return to graduation dance. Part of the program of the city of the culture of Bradford, his concert will highlight iconic clues of legends such as Miriam Makeba, Fela Kuti and Youssou N’Dour.
The season concludes with the traditional “last night” on September 13, held by Elim Chan.
The soprano Louise Alder and the trumpeter Alison Balsam will turn stars, along with the traditional popurri of Santies, Pomp and the circumstances and Auld Lang Syne.
The concert will also include the favorite “Easter Egg” by Donat for his first year in charge.
“There is a musical piece that had wanted to enter the graduation dance for some time,” he says, referring to Arthur Benjamin’s storm cloud.
The music was originally written for the thriller of spy of Alfred Hitchcock, The Man who knew too much in 1934; And reorganized by Bernard Herrmann for the Hitchcock remake in Hollywood in 1956.
“The final scene takes place at Albert Hall,” explains Dotan, “and while Jimmy Stewart is chasing this murderer around the building, Bernard Herrmann is carrying out the orchestra on stage, and that is the piece we are including on the last night of the proms.
“It is one of those little winks to the audience that I like to include the duration of the season.”
For those who cannot attend, all concerts will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds, and 25 of the nights will be televised.
