The Doctor Who: A Celebration concert from back in 2006 is astonishingly underappreciated - so much so that a lot of people don't seem to realise that it happened. It was pretty much the precursor to the Doctor Who Proms, and featured the National Orchestra of Wales performing a selection of tracks from Series One and Two - some of which are well-known and yet haven't been performed since (such as Westminster Bridge). The limited catalogue of music that existed at the time meant that a lot of lesser-known tracks got a performance, too.
Sadly, the concert was never officially released, and so the only copies available tend to be disappointingly low quality! Not only that, it's difficult to find, even on YouTube. This series will thus be my attempt at cleaning up the audio and video of these concerts to as high a quality as possible. The copies I have have been pulled apart and rebuilt, cleaned up, re-eqaulized and (where appropriate) tempo-corrected. The 2006 concert was filled with all kinds of bugs and (presumably to aid in performance) a lot of tracks weren't played at the correct tempo - most notably the songs. This has been fixed for the remaster, and the tracks now match the tempo of the released (soundtrack) versions.
Part Nineteen - and we're getting to the climax of the show here, with the infamous theme from Doomsday, performed by its original artist Melanie Pappenheim. I can't stress how big a deal it was hearing this back in 2006! Doomsday had only been out a few months, but that music from the climactic scene was already a classic. People loved it that much that the BBC site was apparently inundated with comments about it - leading them to say that, sadly, it was an original piece made for the show and unavailable anywhere! (The bbc.co.uk/doctorwho article about the first soundtrack album stated that it included 'the much-requested Doomsday' - [ Ссылка ])
And then finally, on a cold night in November, this version was performed. Remember that this was before YouTube, and before any soundtracks for the show were released - so this was the first time Doomsday could be heard, properly. Golden times. What it would be like to have those times again...
