BBC Proms: Carnival of the Animals with the Kanneh-Masons

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Katie Derham

Michael Morpurgo

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Bridget Caldwell

BBC Proms: 2021: Carnival of the Animals with the Kanneh-Masons

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Carnival of the Animals with the Kanneh-Masons

2021

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2021, Carnival of the Animals with the Kanneh-Masons

The Kanneh-Masons and Michael Morpurgo perform Saint-Saëns’s The Carnival of the Animals.

Michael Morpurgo joins the Kanneh-Masons for a unique, dramatically staged performance of Saint-Saëns’s The Carnival of the Animals.

Former Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo joins star cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and his siblings at the Royal Albert Hall for a unique, dramatically staged performance of Saint-Saëns’s much-loved Carnival of the Animals.

Katie Derham presents this special Prom for all the family, which also features a newly commissioned companion piece, Revel, by Daniel Kidane, including poems written and read by Lemn Sissay.

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