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Prom 30: Innovation, fantasy and Old Testament excess from Bournemouth

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“The National Youth Choir of Great Britain... surmounted the orchestral barrage with assured attack”
Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 7 August 2017
Beethoven, Symphony no. 1 in C major, Op.21
Strauss R., Die Frau ohne Schatten: Symphonic fantasy
Prokofiev, Seven, They Are Seven, Op.30
Walton, Belshazzar's Feast
David Butt Philip, Tenor
James Rutherford, Bass
National Youth Choir of Great Britain
Kirill Karabits, Conductor
Ning Feng’s Korngold is not quite a “Hollywood hit” in Poole
***11
A Prom of two halves: Mark Wigglesworth and the Bournemouth SO
***11
Die Fledermaus at The Grange: Cabaret meets G&S
***11
Alena Baeva delivers transcendent Berg at The Anvil
*****
The Rake's Progress at The Grange: richly entertaining
****1
Voices from the East: a musical marathon with a gripping finish
****1
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