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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2025 - One Hundred and Thirtieth Season - Prom 31: Edward Gardner Conducts the LPO
Performance Date10 August 2025
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersAigul Akhmetshina - vocals
Orchestra or BandLondon Philharmonic Orchestra
ConductorsEdward Gardner
Set List'Sheherazade', Ravel,
'La mer', Debussy
Performance NotesWaves play and waterfalls plunge, the still surface of a lake reflects the midday sun and an ocean duets with the wind in a concert with saltwater on its breath.

Edward Gardner conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme of 20th-century orchestral sound-pictures. The mercurial moods of Debussy’s La mer and rolling waters of Sibelius’s The Oceanides find answer in the gentle rolling harbour of Ravel’s song-cycle She´he´razade, performed – in a Proms debut – by mezzo- soprano Aigul Akhmetshina.

Tippett’s last major work takes us inland to discover a glowing ‘lake full of song’.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2025/30),
Programme (RAHE/1/2025/
Ticket Prices£9 - £115 (Promming tickets £8)
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work13506BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2025 - One Hundred and Thirtieth Season72
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/24472Akhmetshina; Aigul (1996 -); Russian Opera Singer
DS/UK/1129London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO); 1932-; British orchestra
DS/UK/5593Gardner; Edward (1974-); OBE; English conductor
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