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 Eighteen is one of my favourites (some of my favourite music, from one of my favourite episodes) - a suite of music from The Parting of the Ways (or The Daleks, Part 2). Like The Cybermen, this behemoth weighs in at almost nine minutes long. It features some great tracks (Hologram, Finding Jackie, Rose Defeats the Daleks), as well as some great unreleased stuff - including some foreboding Dalek stuff from the episode's climax. Always irked me that they included The Lone Dalek in there as a finale - which wasn't actually used in The Parting of the Ways...!

Either way, it's always nice to hear some orchestrated Series One stuff - although I actually think it works better as sampled music!

Links to different pieces:

Finding Jackie: 0:00
Hologram: 0:34
Unreleased music: 2:46
Rose Defeats the Daleks: 4:35
The Lone Dalek: 7:00

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