BBC Proms Season 2026 Episode 11 - NYO at the Proms

Airdate: 2026-Aug-09

Episode summary:

Petroc Trelawny presents from the Royal Albert Hall as Thomas Adès conducts the National Youth Orchestra on a musical journey to the underworld and back. The programme opens with Liszt's Mephisto Waltz No 1, a whirlwind score based on Nikolaus Lenau's epic poem Faust, followed by Adès' own Dante - Part 2: Purgatorio, the central act of his Grammy Award-winning ballet. To round off the concert, the orchestra delivers the dazzling Symphonie fantastique by Berlioz. Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No 1. Thomas Adès: Dante - Part 2: Purgatorio. Berlioz Symphonie fantastique. National Youth Orchestra, Thomas Adès (conductor).

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