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11 Aug 2013, Royal Albert Hall

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Prom 38: Free Prom – Beethoven's Ninth Symphony

19:30 Sun 11 Aug 2013 Royal Albert Hall

Vasily Petrenko conducts the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and young singers from across the British Isles in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Vaughan Williams’s Walt Whitman setting Towards the Unknown Region and the world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Frieze.

Programme

- - Ralph Vaughan Williams
  - Toward the Unknown Region(11 mins)
- - Mark‐Anthony Turnage
  - Frieze(15 mins)BBC co-commission with the Royal Philharmonic Society and the New York Philharmonic: world premiere
- - interval
- - Ludwig van Beethoven
  - Symphony No. 9 in D minor, ‘Choral’(70 mins)

Performers

Ailish Tynan
soprano
soprano
Jennifer Johnston
mezzo-soprano
mezzo-soprano
Toby Spence
tenor
tenor
Gerald Finley
baritone
baritone
Codetta
Proms debut artist
Proms debut artist
Irish Youth Chamber Choir
Proms debut artist
Proms debut artist
National Youth Choir of Great Britain
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Vasily Petrenko
conductor
conductor

Composers

About this event

The first ever free main-evening Prom celebrates the bicentenary of the Royal Philharmonic Society with a new work by Mark-Anthony Turnage and a performance of the society’s most famous commission for choir and orchestra, Beethoven’s boundary-breaking ‘Choral’ Symphony. Youth choirs from the UK and Ireland, including from Derry-Londonderry, UK City of Culture 2013, join the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and principal conductor Vasily Petrenko.

Tickets to this free Prom will be available from 9.00am on Friday 28 June. You can purchase up to four tickets per booking.

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