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Ten Pieces

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Ten Pieces aims to inspire a generation of children to get creative with classical music.

An initiative for schools, led by BBC Learning and the BBC Performing Groups that aims to open up the world of classical music to children and inspire them to develop their own creative responses.

Ten Pieces is an exciting initiative for primary and secondary age students led by BBC Learning and the BBC Performing Groups. Its aim is to open up the world of classical music to a new generation of children and inspire them to develop their own creative responses to ten pieces of music using a variety of art forms - digital art or animation, performance poetry, dance or movement and composition.

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Barney Harwood

Khalil Madovi

Laura Mvula

Katy B

Richard McCourt

Dominic Wood

Dan Starkey

Claudia Winkleman

Leanne Dunstan

Sarah Rayson

Anna Meredith

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BBC National Chorus of Wales

Thomas Søndergård

Tim Thorpe

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Serena Cross

Sam White

Oliver Smyth

Nick Wickham

Katy Jones

Ten Pieces: Ten Pieces I

03/10/2014

Ten Pieces I

CBBC - Ten Pieces, Ten Pieces I

Performance, live action and animation open up the world of classical music to children.

Performances by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales are mixed with live action and magical animation to open up the world of classical music to children.

An inventive and immersive cinematic film with a mission to inspire a generation of children, mixing performance, live action and animation to explore the wonders of classical music, filmed on an epic scale in an aircraft hangar outside Cardiff.

Thomas Søndergård conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in performances of works from the baroque to the contemporary. They are introduced by a host of celebrities including Claudia Winkleman, Blue Peter's Barney Harwood, CBBC's Khalil Madovi and singers Laura Mvula and Katy B, aided by playful and magical animation. 

The pieces range from Mozart's Horn Concerto and the famed opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony to the driving rhythms of John Adams's Short Ride in a Fast Machine. There is also a brand new body percussion piece, Connect It, specially commissioned for the project and performed by youth group Drum Works.

The film is the opening fanfare of the Ten Pieces project - an ambitious BBC initiate to inspire primary aged children to get creative with classical music.

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