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Chineke!/ Heyward/ Angel Blue review – belated premiere for forgotten Black composer

A suite of reconstructed dance pieces from 1918 by Edmund Thornton Jenkins made a moving start to Chineke!’s Prom, where soprano Angel Blue sang Barber’s nostalgic Knoxville and Dvořák’s Symphony No 8 made a breathless finale

The Guardian - UK

Chineke! Orchestra/Heyward review – kaleidoscopic concert combines energy and complexity

The ethnically diverse orchestra played with vigour and spirit in a programme that included Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Shostakovich and Valerie Coleman

The Guardian - UK

The Best of the 2025 BBC Proms: 20 picks, from Chineke! to Mozart

As the Proms head back to London, another season of music variety beckons. Nick Kimberley picks out the ones worth grabbing tickets for

Evening Standard

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The week in classical: Aida; Chineke!; Paddington Trio – review

The Royal Opera Chorus steals the show in a revival of Robert Carsen’s solemn take on Verdi; Chineke! celebrate 10 years of change-making. Plus, a great young string trio who live every note

The Guardian - UK

Chineke! Orchestra at Queen Elizabeth Hall review: full of easy-going charm

4/5 This 10-year anniversary concert of the orchestra’s founding shows there’s plenty to look forward to in the next decade

Evening Standard

The BBC Proms fights for its future

Hurt by arts cuts, gender balance criticisms and a post-Brexit lack of musicians from Europe, this year’s event is rife with insecurity. But, says Opera Now’s editor Hattie Butterworth, there is also defiant innovation...

Evening Standard

Classical home listening: Emmanuel Despax’s nights at the piano; Chineke! Orchestra play Florence Price

Despax’s elegant tribute to the belle époque era perfectly suits his style, while Price is the subject of a lively set featuring Jeneba Kanneh-Mason

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Chineke! at Queen Elizabeth Hall review: neglected music played with swagger

It all built to a crowd-pleasing finale and a work out for the musicians

Evening Standard

BBC Proms 2023: the 20 concerts to book now, from Anna Lapwood to a Northern Soul night

From Portuguese Fado to the Rite of Spring played from memory, a Horrible Histories opera and a tribute to a Bollywood legend, there’s something for everyone

Evening Standard

Britain's Got Talent youth orchestra awarded £2.1m in funding despite bullying claims

The music charity in charge of the youth orchestra that shot to fame on Britian's Got Talent has been awarded millions in public cash even if its boss faces allegations of misconduct

Daily Mirror

‘It’s my age that’s the talking point, not that I’m black’: Toks Dada, the Southbank’s head of classical music

With its new season opening this weekend, the Southbank Centre’s 32-year-old leader talks about how he’s shaping the venue to reflect classical music today, the magic of live music, and the challenge of keeping the lights – and the heating – on

The Guardian - UK

Lucerne festival 2022 review – strength through diversity

From Chineke! to a beguiling Golda Schultz, the Swiss fixture made a bold and varied return, but the Vienna Phil stole the show

The Guardian - UK

Prom 61: Chineke!/Edusei review – the choral symphony gleams and teems with detail

The young orchestra brought lightness and an appealing new directness to their Proms performance of George Walker’s Lilacs and Beethoven’s 9th

The Guardian - UK

Chineke! Junior Orchestra to mark 250 years since landmark legal slavery case

The Chineke! Junior Orchestra is made up of ethnically diverse musicians aged between 11 and 22.

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‘Like seeing a sculpture from a different angle’: Max Richter on rewriting The Four Seasons – for the second time

His 2012 reimagining of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons was huge hit. So why, a decade later, is Max Richter recording it once again – this time with period instruments and a vintage synth?

Evening Standard

BBC Proms 2022 highlights: the best concerts to book at the London festival, from the Gaming Prom to Yuja Wang

Our critic picks the best of a bumper crop of Proms gigs to book now

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