BBC Proms 2021

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BBC Proms: 2021: Family Prom - Animal Magic

Family Prom - Animal Magic

2021

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Live at the BBC Proms: the Kanneh-Mason siblings and friends celebrate animal magic.

Live BBC Proms: the Kanneh-Mason siblings and friends join author Michael Morpurgo to celebrate animal magic with Saint-Saëns’s ‘zoological fantasy’, The Carnival of the Animals.

Live at the BBC Proms: the Kanneh-Mason siblings and friends join author Michael Morpurgo to celebrate animal magic with Saint-Saëns’s ‘zoological fantasy’, The Carnival of the Animals.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London 

Presented by Georgia Mann.

Daniel Kidane: New work (BBC commission: world premiere)
Camille Saint‐Saëns: The Carnival of the Animals with new narration by Michael Morpurgo

Michael Morpurgo (narrator)
Aminata Kanneh-Mason, Braimah Kanneh-Mason, Ayla Sahin  (violins)
Timothy Ridout (viola)
Mariatu Kanneh-Mason and Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cellos)
Toby Hughes (double bass)
Adam Walker (flute)
Mark Simpson (clarinet)
Isata Kanneh-Mason, Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, Konya Kanneh-Mason (pianos)
Alasdair Malloy (glass harmonica)
Adrian Spillet (percussion)

Author Michael Morpurgo joins the seven talented Kanneh-Mason siblings and starry musical friends for this special Family Prom. Saint-Saëns’s much-loved suite The Carnival of the Animals – a musical menagerie packed with braying donkeys, energetic kangaroos, a serene swan and an aquarium of glinting fish – gets a fresh update in witty new poems by Morpurgo.
There will be no interval.

BBC Proms: 2021

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