Afternoon on 3 - 01/09/2008

Presented by Penny Gore BBC Proms 2008 The young star players of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain are conducted by the youngest man ever to be appointed Musical Director of the Royal Opera, Antonio Pappano. There is an American theme to their programme, launched by Frenchman Edgard Varese's hymn to the New World where he went to live, followed by the more reluctant US resident Rachmaninov's last numbered piano concerto, written mainly in New York. The concert ends with Aaron Copland's all-American Third Symphony, featuring his famous Fanfare for the Common Man. Boris Berezovsky (piano) National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain Antonio Pappano (conductor) Varese: Ameriques Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 4 Copland: Symphony No 3 Plus Chamber Music Elgar: Piano Quintet Sorrel Quartet Martin Roscoe (piano).