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Frivolity, tragedy and serenity: the many sides of BBC NOW at the Proms

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Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 27 July 2014
Ravel, Valses nobles et sentimentales
Holt, Morpheus Wakes (BBC commission; world première)
Ravel, La Valse
Duruflé, Requiem
Emmanuel Pahud, Flute
Ruby Hughes, Soprano
Gerald Finley, Baritone
BBC National Chorus of Wales
National Youth Choir of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer, 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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