What do you get when the 160 strong National Youth Orchestra take the stage at the Royal Albert Hall? You get these incredible artists performing a new suite from Star Wars by John Williams, Holst’s The Planets and more. Check out the post below, and if you’re able to access the BBC iPlayer, then listen to the NYO perform here.
Live at the BBC Proms: The National Youth Orchestra conducted by Dalia Stasevska perform Holst’s Planets.
Presented by Georgia Mann, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
John Williams: Star Wars – suite
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Holst: The PlanetsNational Youth Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska conductorBritain’s most talented teenagers present a concert of intergalactic musical giants. Expect moons and meteor showers, spaceships, stars and lightsabers from the National Youth Orchestra and Dalia Stasevska.
The many worlds of Holst’s The Planets, including the mysterious beauty of ‘Neptune’ and rousing ‘Jupiter’ theme, meet the music from John Williams’s mighty Star Wars soundtracks, plus Pulitzer Prize-winner Caroline Shaw’s piece inspired by sci-fi and some sky-gazing at the Griffin Observatory in Los Angeles.
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