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20 Jul 2018, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2018 Prom 8: Youthful Beginnings

Prom 8
Prom 8: Youthful Beginnings
19:30 Fri 20 Jul 2018 Prom 8
Mendelssohn’s precocious First Piano Concerto joins Schumann’s forward-looking Fourth Symphony and music by Lili Boulanger and Morfydd Owen – both of whom died tragically young – in the ´óÏó´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales’s first Prom of the season.
Mendelssohn’s precocious First Piano Concerto joins Schumann’s forward-looking Fourth Symphony and music by Lili Boulanger and Morfydd Owen – both of whom died tragically young – in the ´óÏó´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales’s first Prom of the season.

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The ´óÏó´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales and its Principal Conductor Thomas SøndergÃ¥rd explore the music of two 20th-century female composers whose early deaths cut their careers tragically short: Prix de Rome winner Lili Boulanger and Wales’s Morfydd Owen, whose Nocturne showcases a sensuous and utterly original musical voice.

Bertrand Chamayou makes his Proms debut in Mendelssohn’s First Piano Concerto – composed when Mendelssohn was just 22 – while Schumann’s jubilant Fourth Symphony is also the work of a composer exploring new musical maturity.

Broadcast on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Four on Sunday 22 July

Image: Bertrand Chamayou © Marco Borggreve