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Afternoon on 3 with Penny Gore

National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and Edward Gardner at the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms in music by Stravinsky, Lutoslawski, and Prokofiev's First Piano Concerto, with Louis Schwizgebel.

Presented by Penny Gore at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Stravinsky: Petrushka (1911 version)
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D flat major

Sir Harrison Birtwistle: Sonance Severance 2000
Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra

Louis Schwizgebel (piano)
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Edward Gardner (conductor)

The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain makes its annual visit to the Proms with a fiery and virtuosic programme of 20th-century orchestral showpieces, conducted by Proms regular Edward Gardner.

A Russian first half sees ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3 New Generation Artist Louis Schwizgebel take the lead in Prokofiev's youthful First Piano Concerto. Written while the composer was still a student, it brims with the same audacious energy that pulses through Stravinsky's great ballet Petrushka. Lutoslawski's vivacious Concerto for Orchestra closes the evening with still more primary-coloured, folkloric brilliance and drama.

First broadcast 10th August.