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Nicola Benedetti teams up with rising star Jonathon Heyward and the talented teenagers of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain for a Prom featuring one of the all-time symphonic greats: Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Andrew McGregor

Laura Jurd: CHANT (London premiere)

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor

8.05: Interval
Andrew McGregor is joined by former NYO member and presenter Lloyd Coleman, talks to some current members of the National Youth Orchestra and hears from their digital artist in residence and composer Jessie Montgomery.

8.30: Jessie Montgomery: Banner (London premiere of chamber-orchestra version)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, 'Eroica'

Nicola Benedetti, violin
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Jonathon Heyward, conductor

Rising star Jonathon Heyward conducts the talented teenagers of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in one of the all-time symphonic greats. Propelling the symphony into the Romantic age, Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ is a celebration of scope and drama, a musical depiction of heroism that surges with pioneering spirit. Nicola Benedetti is the soloist in Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with its song-like slow movement – a work whose sardonic wit is balanced by a new lyricism that would come to dominate the composer’s later works. The Prom also includes a new NYOGB commission by British composer, jazz trumpeter and former ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Laura Jurd.