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A deeply satisfying Mahler Third from Ryan Bancroft and BBCNOW at the Proms

Ryan Bancroft conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales
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BBC National Orchestra of Wales
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CBSO Youth and Children's Choruses
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“this famously long movement – over 30 minutes of music – passed in a flash”
Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 11 August 2025
Mahler, Symphony no. 3 in D minor
Beth Taylor, Mezzo-soprano
CBSO Children's Chorus
BBC National Chorus of Wales
Welsh National Opera Chorus
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Orchestre National de Bretagne
Ryan Bancroft, Conductor
Nail-biting Shostakovich from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales
****1
Exciting Bacewicz and Lutosławski from Tadaaki Otaka and the BBC NOW
***11
Nil Venditti impresses in BBC Proms debut
****1
A choral treat to savour: Verdi’s Requiem at the BBC Proms
*****
Music that eats into you: Schoenberg and Zemlinsky at the BBC Proms
****1
Playfulness and horror: Beethoven and Shostakovich in Cardiff
*****
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