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The week in classical: BBC Proms week one review – hallelujahs all round

First Night fireworks with Elim Chan and co, a triumphant farewell from Mark Elder, and a ravishing love triangle kicked off a re-energised Proms

The Guardian - UK

Prom 6/7: Verdi’s Requiem/Jakub Józef Orliński review – choral glories, bel canto and breakdancing

A visceral concert experience, with singers and the conductor Ryan Bancroft showing off proper theatrical bones – followed by extraordinary range from the star countertenor

The Guardian - UK

Prom 5: BBCNOW/Bancroft review – full-blooded return to the birth of modernism

Ryan Bancroft’s conducting did crisp justice to Schoenberg’s Pelleas and Melisande and Zemlinsky’s Mermaid, which originally premiered together in 1905

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Philharmonia/Bancroft review – fearless and fiery Copland is a dark heart of US programme

Part of the London-based orchestra’s season of American music, the programme featured Copland, Caroline Shaw and Samuel Barber’s violin concerto, brilliantly played by Renaud Capuçon

The Guardian - UK

BBC NOW/Bancroft review – anguished, beautiful Mahler and uplifting Schumann

Relocated and reprogrammed because of Raac checks closing the original venue, this season-opener of Mahler – with mezzo Christianne Stotijn – and Schumann did not disappoint

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Prom 19: SCO/ Emelyanychev; Prom 22: BBC NOW/ Bancroft; Prom 24: BSO/ Karabits – review

A Victorian warhorse springs into life under the baton of Maxim Emelyanychev; Isata Kanneh-Mason makes fiendish Prokofiev look easy; and German horn virtuoso Felix Klieser sets an example to all

The Guardian - UK

Prom 21: BBCNOW/Bancroft review – all-American programme with a monumental finale

Derrick Skye’s ambitious Nova Plexus has power but felt earthbound ultimately; soloist Annelien Van Wauwe impressed with Copland’s Clarinet Concerto; and the 200-strong choir ensured a barnstorming second half

The Guardian - UK

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BBC Proms 2023: the 20 concerts to book now, from Anna Lapwood to a Northern Soul night

From Portuguese Fado to the Rite of Spring played from memory, a Horrible Histories opera and a tribute to a Bollywood legend, there’s something for everyone

Evening Standard

BBCNOW/Bancroft review – Adams’ colossal Harmonielehre is full of colour, drama and life

Ryan Bancroft and the National Orchestra of Wales were superb in works by Ives and Adams; Szymanowki’s glittering Violin Concerto, a less obvious choice for the “American” programme, was passionately realised by Bomsori Kim

The Guardian - UK

Prom 30: Tredegar Band/BBCNOW/Bancroft review – vivid and expressive love letter to brass bands

Gavin Higgins’s ambitious new ‘concerto grosso’ was brilliantly played by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the Tredegar Band

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