Alexandre Kantorow is superb – but Maxim Emelyanychev was the star ...Middle East

Joining forces with Maxim Emelyanychev and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Kantorow brought not one of the big Romantic warhorse concertos but a French novelty: Saint-Saens’s Concerto No. 5 “The Egyptian”. Taking its nickname from a slow movement that journeys “to the East” in music based on a Nubian love-song, the concerto is a diaphanous, perfumed affair – a soft-focus snapshot in sound.

The Scottish Chamber of Orcherstra conducted by Maxim Emelyanychev performs Symphony No. 5 in C minor as part of the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall on Friday, 25 July 2025 Photo by Mark Allan Image via Jo Hawkins

An inspired bit of musical time-travelling prefaced the Saint-Saens with Rameau’s Les Indes Galantes, exotic 18th-century musical postcards from Turkey, Peru, Persia and North America. If anyone was expecting a big opener they would have been disappointed in this delicate, intimate chamber music. Emelyanychev forced us to lean in, to eavesdrop on this conspiratorial music-making, before whipping out a drum from under his music-stand and inviting the audience in with a barnstorming “Danse du grand calumet du soleil” – a playful bit of showmanship that echoed through the Beethoven later on.

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Add in Scottish composer Jay Capperauld’s Bruckner’s Skull – a contemporary meditation not just on death but the musical ghosts of the past – and we had a concert of huge stylistic breadth at pains to prove just the opposite. Nearly three centuries separate Rameau from Capperauld but Emelyanychev and this dynamo of an orchestra pulled them close, tightening their connecting threads, revealing kinship and connection.

The Proms continue at the Royal Albert Hall and other venues until 13 September. Calendar: www.bbc.co.uk/events/rb5v4f/by/date/2025

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