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Il ne faut pas avoir peur du vide pour se lancer ainsi, à corps perdu, dans l’arène géante du Royal Albert Hall, surtout avec une première partie, Desenne et Villa-Lobos, si peu consistante. Sauvés par Ravel… La musique, Dudamel la fait à l’esbroufe, poussant le Simon Bolivar à ses limites de puissance et de vélocité.

Les concerts de musique d’avant-garde sont réputés difficiles. Pourtant, le concert donné à l’occasion du 90e anniversaire de Pierre Boulez s’est déroulé devant une salle pleine, ou presque, d’un public manifestement enthousiaste.

Au programme du Prom 15 : la première britannique d'Iris dévoilée, pièce de Qigang Chen, précédée par la Symphonie n°1 de Prokofiev et suivie par la Symphonie n°2 de Rachmaninov. De la très belle musique, délectable malgré une interprétation du BBC NOW manquant parfois d'ardeur.

Dimanche 26 juillet 2015, le Prom 12 était le 3ème et dernier concert du marathon Beethoven donné par Leif Ove Andsnes et le Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Au programme, les Concertos n°2 et 5 du grand maître. Une soirée jouissive, rayonante de joie.

Au programme du Prom 9, jeudi 23 juillet 2015 : les concertos pour piano n°1 et 4 de Beethoven, et Apollon Musagète de Stravinsky. Une superbe aventure musicale, dont on attend la suite avec impatience !

Lundi 20 juillet se tenait au Royal Albert Hall le “Prom 5”. Au programme : une symphonie de Haydn, une création de HK Gruber et le ballet Petrouchka de Stravinsky, joués par le BBC Philharmonic et le percussionniste Colin Currie placés sous la baguette de John Storgårds. Une soirée agréable, mais pas incroyable.

Devant un public euphorique, le West-Eastern Divan Orchestra a célébré la musique hispanisante dans un concert festoyant, sous la baguette bienveillante de Daniel Barenboim.

Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic achieve lift-off in Beethoven – just – but miss the landing in Gabriela Ortiz's political drama.

The LA Phil take two journeys – to the countryside and through the nine Circle of Hell – on their long overdue return to the BBC Proms... with variable results. 

At the Royal Albert Hall Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts joyful and convivial performances of Stravinsky and Bartók, and Vilda Frang gives a rapturous reading of Berg's violin concerto.

Works of religious stimulus are given outstanding performances under the baton of rising star Nil Venditti.

The composer's final opera is virtually impossible to stage comfortably, but Sir Mark Elder makes a convincing case for more regular outings of its beautiful music.

Alexandra Dariescu makes a compelling Proms debut in Nadia Boulanger's unjustly neglected Fantaisie variée, which bridges late Romanticism and Impressionism.

Soloist and orchestra seem out of sync in a Proms programme that also features solid Dvořák and a Zimmermann curiosity.

A musical and dramatic exploration of Mahler’s First Symphony by Nicholas Collon and Aurora Orchestra. 

Between energetic Haydn and Schumann, Daniel Lozakovich brings freshness to Max Bruch's evergreen First Violin Concerto as Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen concludes a European tour at the BBC Proms.

Alena Baeva is the soloist in a performance of Erich Korngold's Violin Concerto lacking a little kitsch. 

New songs and an old symphony revive happy memories under Ryan Wigglesworth at the BBC Proms.

Cellist Guy Johnston joins Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony for a Prom journeying from humanity's darkest shadows to radiant optimism.

Strauss is a Proms favourite, but it was some songs from Canteloube, beautifully delivered by Louise Alder, that make the greatest impression at the LPO's Prom. 

Pianist brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen spar with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Poulenc before John Adams’ epic Harmonium.

Maria Włoszczowska and Christian Ihle Hadland sparkle with the Royal Northern Sinfonia as the BBC Proms visit Sunderland.      

John Wilson embraces Respighi's panoramic impressions of Rome in an action-packed Italian day trip at the BBC Proms. 

The BBC Proms come to the Northeast with an epic chamber work by Morton Feldman. 

A rare outing for Szymanowski's Stabat Mater forms the highlight of an imaginatively 'spiritual' Prom at the Royal Albert Hall.

Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic are persuasive in Also sprach Zarathustra, less so in Sibelius. Thomas Dunford soothes with Dowland and Purcell.

Dalia Stasevska conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a nod to #America250 and Yunchan Lim plays Ravel's jazzy Piano Concerto in G. 

John Wilson brings his Sinfonia of London to the BBC Proms to crown the Ravel 150 celebrations with a glowing performance of his hedonistic symphonie chorégraphique.

Welser-Möst and the Vienna Philharmonic give a masterclass in virtuosic elegance in Mozrt, but lack edge and passion in Tchaikovsky's Pathétique. 

Franz Welser-Möst and the Vienna Philharmonic enthral at the BBC Proms with magical accounts of Bruckner's last symphony and extracts from Berg's Lulu Suite.

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s BBC Proms matinee proves an ideal opportunity to demonstrate their strengths in a programme of Respighi, Milhaud and Vaughan Williams. 

Jonathon Heyward steps in to conduct Chineke! in two UK premieres and Shostakovich's rip-roaring Tenth Symphony. 

David Pountney's vernacular translation and Ruth Knight's vivid staging lent a thrilling immediacy to Shostakovich's chilling opera.

An eclectic programme including evocative Sámi joiks from and powerful Shostakovich performed from memory by the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.

Ryan Bancroft’s LSO programme, inherited from Simon Rattle, mixes attractive English folksong-inspired pieces with more challenging, late 20th-century works.

Despite the disruption, the musicians of the MSO under Chief Conductor Jaime Martín continue their interesting programme of Sutherland, Dvořák and Tchaikovsky.

Marie Jacquot makes her BBC Proms debut with great performances of Bizet, Saint-Saëns and Augusta Holmès, while Inmo Yang dazzles in Sarasate. 

The German violinist gives us plenty of Czech brio in Dvořák; conductor and orchestra display many good qualities but fail to thrill.

Janine Jansen joins the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for Prokofiev in a brilliantly conceived programme ending with Bartók’s ebullient Concerto for Orchestra. 

In the first of two concerts at the BBC Proms, Klaus Mäkelä and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra give a thrilling performance of Mahler's Fifth Symphony and a glowing exposition of Berio's Rendering. 

Fabio Luisi conducts the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in a programme that blends two modern works with Beethoven's Ninth.

This Strauss-Puccini Prom concert paired the Symphonic Fantasy from Die Frau ohne Schatten and Puccini's one-act opera, Suor Angelica. 

Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra, together with Frantic Assembly, present an illuminating analysis of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, followed by a blistering account of the work from memory.

Le Concert Sprituel’s otherwise strong performance of Striggio and other Renaissance works is let down by their staging and the Royal Albert Hall’s acoustics.

Before a searing performance of Shostakovich's Thirteenth from Ryan Bancroft and his Welsh forces, Benjamin Grosvenor delivers a terrific performance of Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major. 

Eva Ollikainen conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and soloist Johannes Moser in the UK premiere of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s BBC co-commissioned Cello Concerto. 

Bancroft and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales provide a Mahler 3 of exceptional clarity and forward momentum, with terrific posthorn solos from Corey Morris and Beth Taylor an outstanding soloist.

The London Philharmonic and Edward Gardner steer us through four ocean-related pieces, by Sibelius, Tippett, Ravel and Debussy.

A programme heavily skewed to the balletic saw the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Josep Pons dispatch difficult passages with ease.

Domingo Hindoyan, Pacho Flores and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra set the BBC Proms on fire with music from the Americas.