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BBC Proms: 2015 Season: Prom 22

BBC Proms: 2015: Prom 22: Part 1: Prom 22 (part 1): Aurora Orchestra

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2015

Prom 22 (part 1): Aurora Orchestra

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Nicholas Collon conducts the Aurora Orchestra in music by Brett Dean and Mozart.

Nicholas Collon conducts the Aurora Orchestra in Brett Dean's Pastoral Symphony and Mozart's Piano Concerto No 26 in D, K537 (Coronation), featuring soloist Francesco Piemontesi.

Francesco Piemontesi, the Aurora Orchestra and Nicholas Collon live at the BBC Proms, with a programme of Brett Dean, Mozart, Anna Meredith and Beethoven. 

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Tom Service

Brett Dean: Pastoral Symphony 
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 26 in D major, K537 'Coronation'

4.25 pm
INTERVAL

4.45 pm
Anna Meredith: Smatter Hauler (BBC commission) (world premiere)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major 'Pastoral' 
Francesco Piemontesi (piano)
Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon (conductor)

The Aurora Orchestra staged a Proms first last year when it performed Mozart's Symphony No. 40 from memory. Now the dynamic young ensemble returns to continue this season's sequence of family-friendly matinees, giving Beethoven's 'Pastoral' Symphony the same direct, communicative treatment. It is paired with Australian composer Brett Dean's own homage to nature - a work, he explains, inspired by 'glorious birdsong, the threat that it faces, the loss, and the soulless noise that we're left with when they're all gone'. Former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Francesco Piemontesi joins the orchestra for Mozart's late 'Coronation' Concerto, and the afternoon also features the premiere of a new commission from British composer Anna Meredith - also performed from memory by a mixed ensemble of Aurora Orchestra players and young musicians aged 15 - 23.

[This Prom will be repeated on Friday 7th August at 2pm].

BBC Proms: 2015

BBC Proms: 2015: Prom 22

Prom 22

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All broadcasts from the 121st season of the BBC Proms.

The Aurora Orchestra performs music by Brett Dean, Mozart, Anna Meredith and Beethoven

Tom Service presents a family Prom in which Nicholas Collon conducts the Aurora Orchestra. With music by Brett Dean, Mozart, Anna Meredith and Beethoven

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