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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2025 - One Hundred and Thirtieth Season - Prom 71: John Wilson Conducts Bernstein and Ravel
Performance Date12 September 2025
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersJames Ehnes - violin
Orchestra or BandSinfonia of London
ChoirsSinfonia of London Chorus
ConductorsJohn Wilson
Set List'Don Juan', R. Strauss
'Serenade', Bernstein

INTERVAL

'Daphnis and Chloe', Ravel
Performance NotesCritics have praised their Proms performances as ‘breathtaking’, ‘blazing’ and ‘simply as good as it gets’. Now John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London double down with a passion-soaked programme of 20th-century orchestral showpieces. Love is the theme of a Prom that opens with history's greatest seducer, Don Juan, in Strauss’s swashbuckling tone-poem and closes with the sensuous, diaphanous textures of Ravel’s ballet Daphnis and Chloe.

At the centre is one of Bernstein’s most lyrical orchestral works. James Ehnes is the soloist in Serenade – a violin concerto by another name that muses on, and interrogates, the nature of love itself.
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/7862Ehnes; James (1976-); Canadian concert violinist
DS/UK/5336City of London Sinfonia; 1971-; English orchestra
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