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Prom 29: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain provide an evening of stellar entertainment

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“the orchestra were clearly enjoying themselves evoking the deep rumble of outer space”
Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 6 August 2016
ter Schiphorst, Gravitational Waves (BBC co-commission: London premiere)
Strauss R., Also sprach Zarathustra, Op.30
Holst, The Planets, Op.32
Matthews C., Pluto, the Renewer
City of Birmingham Symphony Youth Choruses (women's voices)
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Edward Gardner, Conductor
Green shoots: the National Youth Orchestra at the Proms
***11
Memento mori: The NYOGB in Britten and Shostakovich
***11
Prom 32: Summer adventures from the NYO USA and Pappano
****1
A sinister Bluebeard's Castle from the NYOGB
*****
Hammered home: the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
****1
Youth rises to the challenge Mahler's Ninth
****1
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