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Prom 30: The Tredegar Band join 91Èȱ¬ NOW

Live at the 91Èȱ¬ Proms: Ryan Bancroft conducts the 91Èȱ¬ National Orchestra of Wales in Gavin Higgins's Concerto Grosso, with the Tredegar Band, and Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique.

Live at the 91Èȱ¬ Proms: Ryan Bancroft conducts the 91Èȱ¬ National Orchestra of Wales in Gavin Higgins's Concerto Grosso, with the Tredegar Band, and Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique.

Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Gavin Higgins: Concerto Grosso for Brass Band and Orchestra (91Èȱ¬ commission: world premiere)

7.40pm
Interval: music critic Fiona Maddocks joins Nicola at the Radio 3 box to look forward to the week's forthcoming highlights at the 91Èȱ¬ Proms.

8pm
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op 14

Tredegar Band
91Èȱ¬ National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

‘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.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Music Played

  • Gavin Higgins

    Concerto Grosso

    Orchestra: 91Èȱ¬ National Orchestra of Wales. Ensemble: Tredegar Band. Conductor: Ryan Bancroft.
  • Osian Ellis

    Ar Lan Y Mor - Trad. Welsh

    Music Arranger: Gavin Higgins. Orchestra: 91Èȱ¬ National Orchestra of Wales. Ensemble: Tredegar Band. Conductor: Ryan Bancroft.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie Fantastique Op.14

    Orchestra: 91Èȱ¬ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Ryan Bancroft.
  • Ernest Chausson

    Concert for Violin, Piano and String Quartet, Op.21

    Performer: Ionel Manciu. Performer: Tom Borrow. Ensemble: Van Kuijk Quartet.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Folk Songs from Somerset (English Folk Song Suite)

    Performer: Tredegar Band. Music Arranger: Philip Littlemore. Conductor: Ian Porthouse.
    • Albion.

Broadcast

  • Mon 8 Aug 2022 19:00

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