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Prom 39: Maritime pictures from Chan, Morison and the BBC NOW

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“Baba Yaga had an angry cutting edge, horns ringing out”
Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 15 August 2019
Mendelssohn, Overture ‘TheHebrides’ (‘Fingal’s Cave’)
Elgar, Sea Pictures
Wallen, This Frame Is Part of the Painting (BBC commission: world premiere)
Mussorgsky, orch. Ravel, Pictures at an Exhibition
Catriona Morison, Mezzo-soprano
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Elim Chan, 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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