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Afternoon on 3: Proms 2013 Repeats

Afternoon Concert: Proms 2013 Repeats: Episode 23: Prom 38: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony

Prom 38: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony

Episode 23

Episode 23: Prom 38: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony

Proms 2013 Repeats

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Proms 2013 Repeats, Prom 38: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony

National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in Vaughan Williams, Turnage and Beethoven.

Prom featuring the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, youth choirs and soloists. Vaughan Williams: Toward the Unknown Region. Turnage: Frieze. Beethoven: Symphony No 9.

With Jonathan Swain - a second chance to hear the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, youth choirs and soloists Ailish Tynan, Jennifer Johnston, Toby Spence & Gerald Finley perform Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the BBC Proms. Plus music by Vaughan Williams and Mark-Anthony Turnage.

Presented at the Royal Albert Hall by Petroc Trelawny

Vaughan Williams: Toward The Unknown Region

Mark-Anthony Turnage: Frieze (BBC Co-Commission With The Royal Philharmonic Society And The New York Philharmonic)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 In D Minor, 'Choral'

Ailish Tynan (soprano)
Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-sporano)
Toby Spence (tenor)
Gerald Finley (bass)
Codetta
Irish Youth Chamber Choir
National Youth Choir of Great Britain
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

A host of youthful performers celebrates the bicentenary this year of the Royal Philharmonic Society with the most famous piece the Society ever played a role in commissioning - and another chance to hear Mark Anthony Turnage's brand new BBC Co-Commission with the RPS. The 'most famous' is surely Beethoven's last completed Symphony, the groundbreaking Choral Symphony - for which the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain are joined by four soloists and three youthful choirs from the UK and Ireland, including from Derry-Londonderry, the UK City of Culture 2013. 'Obsessed' with Beethoven from the age of 8, we hear a new work by British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage. He described being asked by the RPS to write a piece inspired by Beethoven's great Symphony as "...a joy... Beethoven is a towering figure, but I find him more inspiring than intimidating..." Turnage's title refers to the famous Beethoven Frieze created in 1902 by the Viennese artist Gustav Klimt.

Plus Spanish music from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Afternoon Concert: Proms 2013 Repeats

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