BBC Proms 2022 - Prom 30 - The Tredegar Band join BBC NOW (320kbps .mp3)

Live at the BBC Proms: Ryan Bancroft conducts the BBC 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.

01. Gavin Higgins - Concerto Grosso for Brass Band and Orchestra (BBC commission: world premiere)
01a. Introduction to Prom 30
02. Osian Ellis - Ar Lan Y Mor - Trad. Welsh
Music Arranger: Gavin Higgins.
02b. Interval commentary, Prom 30
Music critic Fiona Maddocks joins Nicola at the Radio 3 box to look forward to the week's forthcoming highlights at the BBC Proms.
03. Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique, Op 14

Tredegar Band
BBC 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 BBC 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.


First broadcast: 8 August 2022  
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