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Prom 15: Max Bruch and Vaughan Willams end on a high

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“The effective choral writing... was vibrantly presented here with excellent diction”
Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 26 July 2016
Tchaikovsky, The Tempest, Symphonic Fantasia in F minor, Op.18
Payne, Of Land, Sea and Sky (BBC commission: world premiere)
Bruch, Violin Concerto no. 1 in G minor, Op.26
Vaughan Williams, Toward the Unknown Region
Ray Chen, Violin
BBC Symphony Chorus
Sir Andrew Davis, Conductor
Sakari Oramo and Yeol Eum Son summon up vivid landscapes
****1
From snow to sludge: Icelandic music at the Barbican Centre
**111
Fine Lindberg and Stravinsky double bill from the BBC Symphony
****1
UK premiere of Julia Wolfe’s unEarth impresses on scale, not substance
**111
Sir James MacMillan delights with his Christmas Oratorio
*****
Ermonela Jaho gives a tragic twist to Puccini's La rondine
****1
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