21 Jul 2017

NZSO National Youth Orchestra: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

From Music Alive, 7:00 pm on 21 July 2017
Celeste Oram

Celeste Oram Photo: NZSO/supplied

This National Youth Orchestra concert culminates in Benjamin Britten’s famous exploration of orchestral colour: The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.  And leading us there are three works by living composers, one is quickly becoming standard repertoire for orchestras and was composed by the conductor, James MacMillan….and two are world premières by the NYO’s Composers in Residence: Celeste Oram and Reuben Jelleyman.

Clarissa Dunn presents from Wellington's Michael Fowler Centre.

Colin Currie (percussion), NZSO National Youth Orchestra/James MacMillan

ORAM: The Young People's Guide to the Orchestra (world première);

MACMILLAN: Veni, veni Emmanuel;

JELLEYMAN: Vespro (world première);

BRITTEN: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra Op 34

Recorded  in Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ

Producer: David Houston

Engineer: Darryl Stack

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