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SATURDAY 8 AUGUST 2009
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2.00pm Film Diaghilev: The Years Abroad; The Years in Exile. (109 mins, awaiting classification) Introduced by Bob Lockyer.
5.15pm Family Music Intro Discover the music of Tchaikovsky, Lutosławski and Respighi. Bring your instrument and join in.
Prom 31: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
- Date Saturday 8 August 2009
- Time 7.00pm - c9.00pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £7 - £35 price band A or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Two, BBC HD and BBC Radio 3. Available on demand for the following week. Digital viewers can press the red button to view Maestro Cam.
- This programme is no longer available.
Watch this Prom in MaestroCam with commentary by Maestro's Matthew Rowe
The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain returns under its new Principal Conductor, Vasily Petrenko, who made his Proms debut with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra last year.
In his traversal of the Tchaikovsky piano concertos, Liverpool-born Stephen Hough reaches that great warhorse the Concerto No.1.
With its brilliant textures and hints of Polish folk music, Lutosławski's 1954 concerto is a real showpiece for any orchestra, while our final instalment of Respighi's Roman trilogy brings the first performance at the Proms of Roman Festivals – a cinematic survey of the Eternal City's ever-changing festivals, from ancient gladiatorial combats in the Circus Maximus to the Petrushka-esque carnival bustle in the Piazza Navona.
- Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 in B flat minor (35 mins)
- interval
- Lutosławski Concerto for Orchestra (29 mins)
- Respighi Roman Festivals (25 mins)
- Stephen Hough piano
- National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
- Vasily Petrenko conductor
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