BBC Proms: Blue, Chineke!, Heyward review - unfettered escapism for a summer's evening

Last year, Chineke! delivered one of the Proms’ more hard-hitting offerings, in a programme including Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10, “50 minutes of brutality, despair and terror”, and Valerie Colman’s Fanfare for Uncommon Times, reflecting on the COVID pandemic and social upheaval. This year, by contrast, they blended nostalgia with unfettered escapism, mixing Dvořák’s uncharacteristically cheerful Symphony No.