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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2025 - One Hundred and Thirtieth Season - Prom 59: Adès Conducts the BBC SO
Performance Date2 September 2025
Performance DayTuesday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersJames McVinnie - organ
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsThomas Adès
Set List'The Swan of Tuonela', Sibelius,
'Breathing Forests', Gabriella Smith.,
UK premiere

INTERVAL

'Five Spells from The Tempest'; Thomas Adès,
'The Tempest – Suite No. 1', Sibelius
Performance NotesComposer and conductor Thomas Ade`s has long been a fan of Sibelius: ‘He’s obsessed with nature – you’ve always got this sense that he is on the edge of some vast wilderness.’ Ade`s drew inspiration from the Finnish composer’s incidental music for The Tempest when writing his own opera on the Shakespeare play. He conducts suites from both these storm-laden, supernatural works, along with The Swan of Tuonela, in which Sibelius summoned up his skill as a bard of Swedish folk tales.

James McVinnie is the soloist in Gabriella Smith’s organ concerto Breathing Forests, a cavernous ‘sonic forest’ and howl of protest against natural destruction.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2025/30),
Programme (RAHE/1/2025/
Ticket Prices£9 - £115 (Promming tickets £8)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2025/86BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Thirtieth Season - Prom 59: Adès Conducts the BBC SO2 September 2025
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/23518McVinnie; James (13 January 1983); English organist and pianist
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/5209Adès; Thomas (1 March 1971-present); CBE; British composer, pianist and conductor
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