Queen give the BBC Proms a Rhapsodic send-off
Mark SavageMusic reporter
BBCRock band Queen was star guests on the last night of Proms, and Rock Operets gave Bohem Rhapsody’s first symphonic performance.
Sir Brian May and Roger Taylor joined the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Symphony choir to bring Scaramouches and Fantangos to the Royal Albert Hall while celebrated the song 50th anniversary.
In his statement to the BBC News, the queen singer Freddie Mercury, who died in 1991, said, “He would love to be here.” “He’d be on that scene, he was accustomed.”
When asked what the flashy star was to wear, the group friend answered: “I think it would be official. Short shorts or leotard would not make. It would be very elegant in the tails.”
Tenor Sam filled Mercury’s high upper sneakers for Saturday’s performance; Choir, National Youth Choir, BBC singers and Soprano Louise Alder famous for “supported”Bismillah!” section.
Sir Brian instantly missed the sign of the closing guitar solo but Doruk – Mercury songs, which was a ghost record. “Wind all kinds“Then Roger Taylor hit Britain’s largest gong – a great approval was met with roaring.
Stuart Morley’s brand new orchestra arrangement, the performance of the choroist Gareth Malone, who followed the performance, gave Bohemian Rhapsody “fresh splendor”.
“It is a big room to fill this place and filled it.”
Speaking behind the scene, Sir Brian described his performance as “very emotional”.
“A little more emotional for me,” he added. “I missed a few things I liked to be better. But the general feeling was great.”
Last night, he became the climax of eight -week concerts from Braford and Bristol to Gateshead and Belfast.
The final in London Royal Albert Hall also played Leroy Anderson’s comedian Bill Bailey, who played a typewriter at The Dress 1950 classic.
A comedy in the office life contains only two keys of the machine (to prevent clarity and apparently compression) and at the end of each expression “ding”.
It was an interesting emphasis on Bailey’s deceased mother, known as BBC Radio 4’s Theme Song of The News Test.
“I wish my mother was around for her to see her, dedi she said in front of the show.
“I think it’s just a great moment – seeing the first time he inspired me to listen to music, and then I’m there.”
Bailey was greeted by the audience members who cheered a greeting with a “room 101” reference on the stage – although their meanings are not immediately clear.
He was directed by the chief Elim, who was born in Hong Kong for the first time last night, and accepted his first exit by hanging a student’s plate from the podium.
However, he was a confident, charismatic leader who relied on the curator of the concert around childhood themes.
38 -year -old Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney’in animated classic Fantasia’da stars after watching the constellation of the Baton inspired to seize.
Accordingly, as part of the program on Saturday, this scene also included the apprentice of the sorcerer.
“My little Girl doesn’t stay in the locker room,” he said before the performance of the BBC.
“He comes to the stage with me and I’ll give him some patter.”
End of a period for Alison Balsom
British trumpetist Alison Balsom also looked at his youth because he gave his retirement performance at the age of 46.
He first leaned over from his professional career with Hummel’s trumpet concerto in E Flat Major as a young girl in Barbican.
It was an emotional performance with Balsom producing a beautiful round tone during a slower, meticulous movements; The closing is before moving to high gear for Rondo’s dazzling pyrotechnics.
“It is a great final to play this piece I live with all my musical life,” he said.
“I can’t say how lucky I was to make music in my life, because it enriched me as a human being.”
While ending his performance, Balsom took a shower with a roses from a appreciated audience.
Alder was the star Soprano of the night and promised a “revitalizing evening” as a panidote to the global political turmoil.
Adil Lady carried the audience to Edwardian London with a cheeky song mixture; And he scaled the heights with the interpretation of Vilja Song, the nostalgic show of Franz Lehár’s operetta.
“I admire any soprano with a great voice, who has such an inner, soft singing.”
“This is a sign of the real class.”
The singer embraced the party atmosphere last night, a cockney accent and flower sellers adopted the costume, because it wouldn’t be a lover; And a great union flag balcony sport for the rule, Britannia!
The concert ended with the traditional marine slum program and patriotic songs such as Jerusalem and Land of Hope and Glory – the audience launched the party Poppers while the audience shaking the flags and filled toys.
Bill Bailey reappeared at the end of the concert and played Auld Lang Syne in the famous “Jupiter Voice” organ of Royal Albert Hall – but not before throwing the improvisation version of Europe’s rock classic The Final Countdown.
It gave a celebration and its unique peak.
This year’s season gave 86 concerts with everyone from Jazz Singer Samara Joy To the pianist in the world with one hand, Nicholas McCarthy.
The prominent features involved the superior performance of the Vienna symphony. Bruckner’s Symphony No 9; and a surprisingly emotional version of the star chef Klaus Mäkelä Gustav Mahler’s fifth symphony With the Royal Concerts of the Netherlands.
There was also a dedicated balloon music of traitors; Psycho composer Bernard Herrmann’s music contains the music; and crossover concerts with pop star Jade Thirlwall and guitar virtuoso ST Vincent.
Approximately 290,000 tickets were sold during the season; And millions of BBC Radio 3, BBC Sounds and BBC television were covered.
The festival will return from 17 July 2026 for the 131th season.
Last night of Proms 2025 – Program
- MUSSORGSSKY – A NIGHT ON THE BARE MOUNTAIN
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel – E Flat Major’s trumpet concerto in Major
- Lucy Walker – Today
- Arthur Benjamin – ‘Storm Clouds’ Cantata
- Charles -François Gounod – Faust: ‘O Dieu! Que de Bijoux… Ah! Je Ris de Me Voir ‘(Jewelery Song)
- Franz Lehár – The Merry Dul: Es Lebt ‘eine Vilja (Vilja Song)
- Camille Pépin – Fireworks (World premiere)
- Paul Dukas – The Wizard’s Apprentice
December
- Freddie Mercury/Queen, Arr. Stuart Morley – Bohem Rhapsody
- Dmitry Shostakovich – Festival Overtur
- Lerner/Loewe, Arr. Paul Campbell – Adil Lady Medley F
- Leonard Bernstein, Arr. Simon Wright – Prelude, Fugue and Riffs
- Leroy Anderson – Type
- Rachel Portman – The Gathering Tree (World premiere)
- Trad., Arr. Henry Wood – Fantasia in British Sea Songs
- Thomas Arne, Arr. Malcolm Sargent – Rule, Britannia!
- Edward Elgar – Pump and Status March 1 (Umut and Glory Land)
- Hubert Parry, Orch. Edward Elgar – Jerusalem
- arr. Benjamin Britten – National Anthem
- Trad., Arr. Paul Campbell – Auld Lang Syne
