August 2025
BBC Proms 2025
12/08/25 09:20 Filed in: radio tips
Pekka Kuusisto brings the strings of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra to the Proms for a programme that reflects on human injustice. Shostakovich wrote his String Quartet No. 8 in Dresden, contemplating the Allied bombing of the city during the Second World War. For some, the work also speaks of the oppression of the Russian people under Stalin’s rule. In a different time and place, singer and composer Katarina Barruk – one of only a handful of remaining speakers of the Ume Sámi language – is a living beacon for her native tongue and culture, performing songs that combine the traditional and the modern.
In the first half of the concert, the ensemble will perform songs by Katarina Barruk (based on the joik indigenous song-type from Sábmie) – interspersed with music by J. S. Bach, Philip Glass, Hannah Kendall (UK premiere) and Caroline Shaw.
31 augustus 2025 - BBC Radio 3
Feel the beat. From the primal, hypnotic dances of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring to the sensual throb of Ravel’s Boléro and the edgy thrum and twitch of Varèse’s Intégrales, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Eva Ollikainen get the musical pulse racing. They’re joined by ‘stupendous’ German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser for the UK premiere of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Before we fall – a work that teeters on the edge of ‘a multitude of opposites’, torn between lyricism and distorted energy.
Conductor: Eva Ollikainen
13 augustus 2025 - ook live via NPO KLASSIEK
In the first half of the concert, the ensemble will perform songs by Katarina Barruk (based on the joik indigenous song-type from Sábmie) – interspersed with music by J. S. Bach, Philip Glass, Hannah Kendall (UK premiere) and Caroline Shaw.
31 augustus 2025 - BBC Radio 3
Feel the beat. From the primal, hypnotic dances of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring to the sensual throb of Ravel’s Boléro and the edgy thrum and twitch of Varèse’s Intégrales, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Eva Ollikainen get the musical pulse racing. They’re joined by ‘stupendous’ German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser for the UK premiere of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Before we fall – a work that teeters on the edge of ‘a multitude of opposites’, torn between lyricism and distorted energy.
Conductor: Eva Ollikainen
13 augustus 2025 - ook live via NPO KLASSIEK
