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BBC Proms: 2020: The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

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The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

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The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain perform Messiaen's Turangalîla Symphony.

The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain perform a typically adventurous programme, showcasing their unique combination of impressive ability and unending enthusiasm.

In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts. 

Messiaen’s ecstatic, Eastern-influenced celebration of love is framed by a BBC commission from American talent Nico Muhly and British composer Anna Meredith’s acclaimed tour de force of clapping, stamping, singing and body percussion, first performed earlier the same year by NYO members.

Varèse’s Tuning Up is a tongue-in-cheek parody based on the familiar orchestral strains usually heard on stage only before the conductor arrives.

Presented by Georgia Mann.

Edgard 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
Vassily Petrenko (conductor)

(From BBC Proms 2012, 4 August)

BBC Proms: 2020

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