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Proms 2024
8 Aug 2022, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2022 Prom 30: The Tredegar Band joins 91Èȱ¬ NOW

Prom 30
Prom 30: The Tredegar Band joins 91Èȱ¬ NOW
19:00 Mon 8 Aug 2022 Royal Albert Hall
Ryan Bancroft unleashes the full power of the 91Èȱ¬ National Orchestra of Wales in Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, and joins forces with the Tredegar Band for the world premiere of Gavin Higgins’s new Concerto Grosso for Brass Band and Orchestra.
Ryan Bancroft unleashes the full power of the 91Èȱ¬ National Orchestra of Wales in Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, and joins forces with the Tredegar Band for the world premiere of Gavin Higgins’s new Concerto Grosso for Brass Band and Orchestra.

Programme

      • Concerto Grosso for Brass Band and Orchestra(33 mins)91Èȱ¬ commission: world premiere
        • interval
        • Symphonie fantastique(49 mins)

    About This Event

    ‘Convinced that his love is spurned, the artist poisons himself with opium …’ Hector Berlioz never did anything by halves, and in his Symphonie fantastique a doomed love story becomes a no-holds-barred phantasmagoria: a fabulous, wide-eyed fantasy of severed heads, demonic orgies and unrequited love, written in the grip of an obsession and scored in technicolour for a supersized orchestra. Ryan Bancroft unleashes the full power of the 91Èȱ¬ National Orchestra of Wales, and goes even larger with the world premiere of Gavin Higgins’s new Concerto Grosso celebrating the British brass band tradition. A full symphony orchestra collides with the multi-award winning Tredegar Band (stars of the movie Pride) – and sends sparks hurtling.

    Image: Tredegar Band