Symphony Of Lungs : BBC Proms At The Royal Albert Hall) (2025)

"Royal Albert Hall, London An appropriately maximal reading of debut album "Lungs", made with Jules Buckley’s orchestra at Prom 69, provides a grand stage for Welch’s even grander voice. Will it surprise you to learn that Florence Welch’s orchestra features not one, but two harps? That there is a lute and a rainstick, and a violin solo so furious that it feels like a devil is being conjured? As the grand high witch of maximalism, the Proms is the ideal way for Welch to revisit the pained howl of "Lungs", her 2009 debut album that wears its heartbreak like a scar. “When I first heard Jules’s orchestration, I cried,” she tells the audience in her whisper-soft speaking voice. “This album is about feeling and I never thought anyone could add more feeling. But Jules did.” (The Guardian; 5 uit 5 sterren)