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Fiona Talkington launches a series of concerts by some of the world's top youth orchestras. Today not one but two National Youth Orchestras from Germany - both playing Strauss blockbusters. We begin with the 50th Anniversary Concert by the incredibly talented teenagers who make up the National Youth Orchestra (Bundesjugendorchester), and end with their student counterparts, the Young German Philharmonic (Junge Deutsche Philharmonie).

Var猫se: Am茅riques
Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony)
Helmut Lachenmann: Marche Fatale
German National Youth Orchestra
Conductor Ingo Metzmacher

c. 3.15pm
Hendrik Hofmeyr: Three African Songs (world premi猫re)
German National Youth Orchestra
Conductor Alexander Shelley

c. 3.30pm
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
Young German Philharmonic
Conductor Jonathan Nott

In this series you can also hear National Youth Orchestras from the Netherlands, Slovakia and Romania, plus three international youth orchestras, each formed from players who come from all over the world to take part in a summer training academy: the brand-new RCO Young orchestra under the wing Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the orchestras of the Schleswig-Holstein Festival in the lowlands of northern Germany and the Verbier Festival high in the Swiss Alps.