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Live at the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Proms: The Ö÷²¥´óÐã National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales and conductor Ryan Bancroft perform an all-American programme, featuring clarinet soloist Annelien Van Wauwe.

Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Derrick Skye: Nova Plexus
Copland: Clarinet Concerto

c. 8.15pm
Interval: Tasmin Little meets soloist Annelien Van Wauwe, and in a candid conversation share experiences about their respective music careers.

c. 8.35pm Part 2
John Adams: Harmonium

Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet)
Ö÷²¥´óÐã National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales
Crouch End Festival Chorus
Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

In the first of two consecutive concerts this week, the Ö÷²¥´óÐã National Orchestra of Wales and Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft present an all-American Prom. Two poems by Emily Dickinson provide the starting point for Harmonium, one of John Adams’s most powerful works for chorus and orchestra. Propulsive, motoric urgency gives way briefly to blissful waves of sound, before a blazing conclusion. Jazz runs through the veins of Copland’s Clarinet Concerto, commissioned by ‘King of Swing’ Benny Goodman and performed here with soloist Annelien Van Wauwe. The concert opens with a world premiere from Los Angeles-based composer Derrick Skye, whose music has been described as ‘deliciously head-spinning’.