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Prom 35: Malcolm Hayes' Violin Concerto forms compelling centrepiece

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Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 11 August 2016
Bartók, Dance Suite, Sz. 77
Hayes, Violin Concerto (BBC commission: world premiere)
Dvořák, Symphony no. 7 in D minor, Op.70
Tai Murray, Violin
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Søndergård, Conductor
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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