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6 Sep 2022, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2022 Prom 67: Nicola Benedetti plays Wynton Marsalis

Prom 67
Prom 67: Nicola Benedetti plays Wynton Marsalis
19:30 Tue 6 Sep 2022 Royal Albert Hall
Nicola Benedetti joins the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for the Proms premiere of Wynton Marsalis’s Violin Concerto, and Thomas Søndergård conducts music by Britten, Bernstein and Thomas Adès.
Nicola Benedetti joins the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for the Proms premiere of Wynton Marsalis’s Violin Concerto, and Thomas Søndergård conducts music by Britten, Bernstein and Thomas Adès.

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‘Nicola Benedetti – now, she really can play,’ says the American composer, trumpeter and all-round jazz legend Wynton Marsalis, and after Benedetti gave the world premiere of the concerto that he composed for her in 2015, The Guardian wrote of her ‘sparky performance’. Thomas Søndergård and The Royal Scottish National Orchestra gives its Proms premiere tonight: the big, generous heart of a concert with a spring in its step, that opens with Thomas Adès’s wonderfully sleazy Powder her Face suite and ends amid the headstrong urban energy of West Side Story. In between comes a blast of fresh sea air from Benjamin Britten.

Broadcast on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Four on Friday 9 September

Image: Nicola Benedetti © Craig Gibson