Live at the 麻豆社 Proms. The Southbank Sinfonia and the National Youth Choir of Great Britain under Jessica Cottis perform music inspired by the poetry collection, The Lost Words.
Live at 麻豆社 Proms: the Southbank Sinfonia, the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and soloists under conductor Jessica Cottis.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall in London.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
We celebrate the rich musical landscape of nature in a Prom inspired by the bestselling book The Lost Words, which revives disappearing words that describe the natural world.
With a brand-new 鈥榮pell鈥� by the book鈥檚 author Robert Macfarlane, and live paintings from Jackie Morris, who created the original artwork, the programme includes the nightingale, quail and cuckoo calls from Beethoven鈥檚 鈥楶astoral鈥� Symphony, the Arctic bird cries of Rautavaara鈥檚 Cantus arcticus, the carefree flight of Vaughan Williams鈥檚 The Lark Ascending, plus new commissions by Jocelyn Pook and Alissa Firsova.
Interval: Petroc Trelawny talks to some of the talent involved in this event.
Stephanie Childress, violin
Jason Singh, beatboxer
Spell Songs, folk group
National Youth Choir of Great Britain
Southbank Sinfonia
Jessica Cottis, conductor
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