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Afternoon Concert: Prom 3 repeat: BBC Young Musician 40th Anniversary

17/07/2018

Prom 3 repeat: BBC Young Musician 40th Anniversary

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Prom 3 repeat: BBC Young Musician 40th Anniversary

Past winners and finalists celebrate 40 years of BBC Young Musician.

BBC Young Musician 40th anniversary. BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Andrew Gourlay with soloists including Nicola Benedetti, Sheku Kanneh-Mason and 2018 winner Lauren Zhang.

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BBC Proms repeat: BBC Young Musician celebrates its 40th birthday with a concert featuring illustrious past winners and finalists, including Nicola Benedetti, Freddy Kempf and Sheku Kanneh-Mason, as well as this year's winner, Lauren Zhang.

Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Ben Foster: Fantasia on the Young Musician Theme
David Bruce: Sidechaining 
Steve Reich: Drumming, Part 1 
Giovanni Sollima: Violoncelles, vibrez! 
Iain Farrington: Gershwinicity

INTERVAL: Clemency Burton-Hill looks back over the history of the BBC Young Musician with the help of some of its winners.

Saint-Saëns, arr Farrington: Carnival of the Animals (excerpts)
Ravel: Tzigane
James MacMillan: Britannia
Mussorgsky, arr Wood: The Great Gate of Kiev from Pictures at an Exhibition

Nicholas Daniel (oboe) 
Michael Collins (clarinet) 
Ben Goldscheider (horn) 
Jennifer Pike (violin) 
Alexander Bone (alto saxophone) 
David Childs (euphonium) 
Jess Gillam (soprano saxophone) 
Emma Johnson (clarinet) 
Alexandra Ridout (trumpet) 
Colin Currie (percussion) 
Owen Gunnell (percussion) 
Adrian Spillett (percussion) 
Sam Walton (percussion) 
Natalie Clein (cello) 
Laura van der Heijden (cello) 
Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello) 
Guy Johnston (cello) 
Nicola Benedetti (violin) 
Martin James Bartlett (piano) 
Freddy Kempf (piano) 
Lara Melda (piano) 
Lauren Zhang (piano)

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Andrew Gourlay

BBC Young Musician has launched the careers of scores of artists since it began in 1978. We mark the competition's 40th anniversary with the help of an array of previous winners and finalists, joining this year's finalists; and we take a look at the competition's rich history.

First broadcast Sunday 15 July.

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

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