Florence + the Machine at the Proms: a thrilling two hours of pure emotion
This imaginative orchestral reworking of her debut album Lungs was part film score, part pop song, and totally euphoric.
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Anna Leszkiewicz
Anna Leszkiewicz is senior commissioning editor at the New Statesman.
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