Proms 30 & 31: BBC Singers/Bach Choir/NYCGB/Hill; BBCSSO/NYOS/ Runnicles – review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonSunday's two Proms continued the weekend's focus on youth with their extraordinary line-ups of performers. In the afternoon event some 550 choristers, including the National Youth Choir of Great Britain, took part in the first performance of Bob Chilcott's cantata The Angry Planet. Setting a worthy text by the poet Charles Bennett, Chilcott's 45-minute work employed a retro style to explore the lamentable depredations of man upon the environment in harmonies Vaughan Will...

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