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Game on! Great success for first Prom devoted to the global genre

Gaming Prom
© BBC | Mark Allan
Robert Ames
© BBC | Mark Allan
Gaming Prom
© BBC | Mark Allan
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“if you want to go outside the box as far as you can…hire someone who has no idea what the box is”
Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 1 August 2022
Follin, Loading Chronos
Kondo, The Legend of Zelda
Hildur Guðnadóttir/Sam Slater, arr. Robert Ames, Battlefield 2042: suite (European premiere)
Curry, Dear Esther – I Have
Shimomura, Kingdom Hearts (excerpts)
Otani, Shadow of the Colossus (excerpts)
Robert Ames, Conductor
Edusei’s Beethoven and Rangwanasha’s Strauss thrill at Cadogan Hall
****1
Petrenko’s searing Shostakovich overshadows Grosvenor’s Beethoven
****1
Charisma and colour from Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic
****1
Perception-altering Shostakovich from Serebrennikov and Petrenko
*****
A trio of exiled composers: Petrenko and the RPO at the RFH
****1
Giltburg’s Beethoven enlightens the dark between Berg and Stravinsky
****1
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