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2012

BBC Proms: 2012 Season: Prom 29

BBC Proms: 2012: Prom 29: Part 2: Messiaen, Anna Meredith

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Messiaen, Anna Meredith

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National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain/Vasily Petrenko in Messiaen and Anna Meredith.

National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain/Vasily Petrenko. Messiaen: Turangalila Symphony. Anna Meredith: HandsFree. With Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot), Joanna MacGregor (piano).

Live from the Royal Albert Hall

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

One of the highlights of this year's celebration of youth at the BBC Proms is this evening's appearance by the talented National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain as they scale the heights in Messiaen's Turangalîla Symphony, an ecstatic song of love.

The huge orchestral forces and soaring solos for the ondes martenot in Messiaen's Tristan-inspired symphony will surely fill the Royal Albert Hall with glorious sounds. Messiaen's twentieth century classic is framed by a BBC commission from one of America's rising talents and Anna Meredith's acclaimed tour de force of clapping, stamping, singing and body percussion, first performed earlier this year by NYO members and commissioned for the PRS for Music Foundation's New Music 20x12 programme as part of the Cultural Olympiad.

Messiaen: Turangalîla Symphony 
Anna Meredith: HandsFree 

Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot)
Joanna MacGregor (piano)
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain 
Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Tuesday 14th August at 2pm.

BBC Proms: 2012

BBC Proms: 2012: Prom 29

Prom 29

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

All broadcasts from the 118th season of the BBC Proms.

National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in Varese, Nico Muhly, Messiaen, Anna Meredith

As part of a series of concerts focusing on young performers, Vasily Petrenko conducts the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in music by Varese, Nico Muhly, Messiaen and Anna Meredith

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