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Afternoon Concert: Proms 2012 Repeats: Prom 29 - Varese, Muhly, Messiaen, Anna Meredith

Prom 29 - Varese, Muhly, Messiaen, Anna Meredith

14/08/2012

Proms 2012 Repeats

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Proms 2012 Repeats, Prom 29 - Varese, Muhly, Messiaen, Anna Meredith

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

A Prom featuring the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain under Vasily Petrenko. Varese: Tuning Up. Muhly: Gait. Messiaen: Turangalila Symphony. Anna Meredith: HandsFree.

With Penny Gore
One of the highlights of this year's celebration of youth at the BBC Proms is the appearance by the brilliant National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain as they scale the heights in Messiaen's Turangalila 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.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Varèse: Tuning Up 

Nico Muhly: Gait - BBC Commission, London Premiere

Messiaen: Turangalîla Symphony 

Anna Meredith: HandsFree 

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

Afternoon Concert: Proms 2012 Repeats

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