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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms: The Planets and Star Wars

Live at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms: The National Youth Orchestra conducted by Dalia Stasevska perform Holst's Planets.

Live at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms: The National Youth Orchestra conducted by Dalia Stasevska perform Holst's Planets.

Presented by Georgia Mann, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

John Williams: Star Wars – suite
Caroline Shaw: The Observatory

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Interval: Space: Could Life Exist Beyond Earth? is the title of an exhibition currently running at the Natural History Museum. Curator Caroline Smith shares her interest in meteorites from Mars and the Moon to one which, at 4567 billion years old, is older than our Earth.

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Holst: The Planets

National Youth Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska conductor

Britain’s most talented teenagers present a concert of intergalactic musical giants. Expect moons and meteor showers, spaceships, stars and lightsabers from the National Youth Orchestra and Dalia Stasevska.

The many worlds of Holst’s The Planets, including the mysterious beauty of ‘Neptune’ and rousing ‘Jupiter’ theme, meet the music from John Williams’s mighty Star Wars soundtracks, plus Pulitzer Prize-winner Caroline Shaw’s piece inspired by sci-fi and some sky-gazing at the Griffin Observatory in Los Angeles.

Release date:

2 hours, 44 minutes

Broadcast

  • Sat 9 Aug 2025 19:00

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