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Prom 2: Woo woo! The Doctor visits the Royal Albert Hall

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Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 13 July 2013
Programme to include:
Various, Music from the Doctor Who series
Bizet, Carmen Suite no. 2 (Habanera)
Debussy, Préludes, Bk 1 no. 8: La Fille aux cheveux de lin (The girl with the flaxen hair)
Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565
London Philharmonic Choir
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ben Foster, Conductor
Matt Smith, Presenter
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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