Proms 2012 Prom 40: National Youth Wind Orchestra of Great Britain & National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain - BBC Proms

12 Aug 2012, Royal Albert Hall

15:30 Sun 12 Aug 2012 Next Event

Prom 40: National Youth Wind Orchestra of Great Britain & National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain

15:30 Sun 12 Aug 2012 Royal Albert Hall

Two national youth orchestras – the Wind Orchestra and Brass Band – in an all-English programme including Holst and Walton.

Programme

- - Ralph Vaughan Williams
  - Flourish(3 mins)
- - Gustav Holst
  - Suite No. 2 in F(11 mins)
- - Gavin Higgins
  - Der Aufstand(10 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
- - Martin Ellerby
  - Paris Sketches(14 mins)
- - William Walton
  - Coronation March ‘Crown Imperial’(8 mins)
- - interval
- - Leighton Lucas
  - Chorale and Variations(7 mins)
- - John Pickard
  - Wildfire(12 mins)
- - Gavin Bryars
  - After the Underworlds(6 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
- - Sir George Benjamin
  - Altitude(8 mins)
- - Derek Bourgeois
  - Blitz(12 mins)

Performers

National Youth Wind Orchestra
James Gourlay
conductor
conductor
National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain
Bramwell Tovey
conductor
conductor

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About this event

With youth featuring as a major strand at the Proms this summer, two ensembles share the bill, each one introducing a brand-new work. A suitably patriotic edge is provided by Walton’s Crown Imperial and Derek Bourgeois’s virtuosic Blitz.

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