Top of the Proms 2011

Ninety concerts over eight weeks, thousands of performers and an audience of millions – the Proms begin next Friday. Our critics pick their highlights'Mahler with Dudamel and Nigel Kennedy's unaccompanied Bach'For real Proms atmosphere it's going to be hard to beat Mahler's Resurrection Symphony on 5 August. Under Gustavo Dudamel, the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra (now so many of its members are twentysomethings, it has dropped the "Youth") lit up this hall at their 2007 Proms debut. Thi...

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