First Night of the 2016 Proms

[sawyl]

Solid start to the 2016 proms, from the unscheduled addition of La Marseillaises in response to the events from Nice, to the opening proper with Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture and Sol Gabetta's take on the Elgar cello concerto — and her delightful performance of Pēteris Vasks' Dolcissimo as an encore. I confess to skipping out on much of Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky cantata, but I promise to revisit it when I have a spare moment.