Doctor Who at the Proms

TV Movie
2009
1h 35m

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Highlights from the first ever Doctor Who Prom, hosted by Freema Agyeman, which featured music from the series - performed by the BBC Philharmonic and London Philharmonic Choir.Highlights from the first ever Doctor Who Prom, hosted by Freema Agyeman, which featured music from the series - performed by the BBC Philharmonic and London Philharmonic Choir.Highlights from the first ever Doctor Who Prom, hosted by Freema Agyeman, which featured music from the series - performed by the BBC Philharmonic and London Philharmonic Choir.

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Trivia
Performed at the Royal Albert Hall on 27 July 2008 and broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. Television premiere was on 1 January 2009.

Alternate versions
The original performance of this concert featured, beside the music from the Doctor Who TV show, additional classical music by Aaron Copland ("Fanfare for the Common Man"), Sergei Prokofiev ("Montagues and Capulets"), Richard Wagner ("The Ride of the Valkyries"), Mark-Anthony Turnage ("The Torino Scale") and Gustav Holst ("The Planets - Jupiter"). For the TV airing all non-Doctor Who music was removed. This edited version runs ca. 60 minutes and was also included as a bonus feature on the DVD/Blu-ray release of The Next Doctor (2008).

Connections
Featured in Breakfast: Episode dated 5 October 2010 (2010)

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Concert Prologue
Composed by Murray Gold
Performed by Melanie Pappenheim and the London Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Ben Foster

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9/10

A pitch-perfect and timeless tribute to my personal favourite Doctor Who era of all time

Easily one of my top 2 favourite Doctor Who Prom concerts of all time. To honestly say how much I absolutely loved this show is quite literally the understatement of the century. Freema Agyeman does such an incredible job presenting this show with the enthusiasm and the passion that further reminds us how much of an amazing and yet criminally underrated ambassador she (and Martha Jones's character as a whole) truly was for to the show. I also really particularly enjoyed the Music of the Spheres short with easily my all-time favourite Doctor, David Tennant himself, stealing the show as always (even if the short was admittedly a little cheesy). This concert also always felt nostalgic to me. Like the TARDIS itself, I feel like it just took me right back in time to when I first became a proper fan of the show at 16 years old around the time Series 4 aired. My only minor nitpick with this show in particular is that the guy they got to sing Song For Ten towards the end sounded a bit flat and like he was just singing the song out of tune whilst high on drugs but fortunately it doesn't take away from my overall thorough enjoyment of the entire show.

In conclusion, with Doctor Who at the Proms 2009, I just literally could not think of a more practically PITCH-PERFECT and TIMELESS tribute to easily my personal favourite Doctor Who era of all time and one which I still have very fond memories of growing up with to this day.

My overall rating for Doctor Who at the Proms 2009: 9/10.