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Live at the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Proms: Ryan Bancroft conducts the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ National Orchestra of Wales in Gavin Higgins's Concerto Grosso, with the Tredegar Band, and Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique.

Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Gavin Higgins: Concerto Grosso for Brass Band and Orchestra (³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ commission: world premiere)

7.40pm
Interval: music critic Fiona Maddocks joins Nicola at the Radio 3 box to look forward to the week's forthcoming highlights at the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Proms.

8pm
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op 14

Tredegar Band
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

‘Convinced that his love is spurned, the artist poisons himself with opium …’ Hector Berlioz never did anything by halves, and in his Symphonie fantastique a doomed love story becomes a no-holds-barred phantasmagoria: a fabulous, wide-eyed fantasy of severed heads, demonic orgies and unrequited love, written in the grip of an obsession and scored in technicolour for a supersized orchestra. Ryan Bancroft unleashes the full power of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ National Orchestra of Wales, and goes even larger with the world premiere of Gavin Higgins’s new Concerto Grosso celebrating the British brass band tradition. A full symphony orchestra collides with the multi-award winning Tredegar Band (stars of the movie Pride) – and sends sparks hurtling.