Article: A second-rate First Night; CLASSICAL.(Features)

Byline: David Mellor

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The First Night of The Proms normally features a big work, but not this year. Instead we were presented with a dog's breakfast of seven unrelated pieces, starting with Stravinsky's damp squib Fireworks and finishing with Bruckner's superficially ecstatic but actually rather leaden-footed setting of Psalm 150.

The programme cruelly ...

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