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Prom 16: BBC NOW play British music and Tchaikovsky

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Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 24 July 2013
Elgar, Falstaff Symphonic Study for orchestra, Op.68
Bantock, Sapphic Poem
Walton, Film music from Henry V (Touch her soft lips and part; Death of Falstaff)
Tchaikovsky, Symphony no. 4 in F minor, Op.36
Raphael Wallfisch, Cello
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen, Conductor
Nail-biting Shostakovich from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales
****1
Bancroft and BBCNOW at the Proms: a deeply satisfying Mahler 3
****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
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