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Duration - 50 minutes

This disc includes 3 programmes: Ten Pieces, Ten Pieces Extra and CBBC @ the Ten Pieces Prom.

The project aims to inspire a generation of children using 10 pieces of classical music as a starting point. They include: Holst's "Mars, Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King", Mussorgsky's "A Night on the Bare Mountain", Adams' "Short Ride in a Fast Machine", Britten's "Storm, from Peter Grimes", Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5", Mozart's "Horn Concerto No. 4", Handel's "Zadok the Priest", Meredith's "Connect It" and Stravinsky's "Firebird Suite".

Ten Pieces:

An inventive and immersive cinematic film with a mission to inspire a generation of children, mixing performance, live action and animation to explore the wonders of classical music, filmed on an epic scale in an aircraft hangar outside Cardiff. Thomas Søndergård conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in performances of works from the baroque to the contemporary. They are introduced by a host of celebrities including Claudia Winkleman, Blue Peter's Barney Harwood, CBBC's Khalil Madovi and singers Laura Mvula and Katy B, aided by playful and magical animation. The pieces range from Mozart's Horn Concerto and the famed opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony to the driving rhythms of John Adams's Short Ride in a Fast Machine. There is also a brand new body percussion piece, Connect It, specially commissioned for the project and performed by youth group Drum Works.

Ten Pieces Extra:

A deeper exploration of some of the music featured in Ten Pieces, as celebrities offer further insight into the composers and works included in the film.

CBBC @ the Ten Pieces Prom:

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales is joined by firebirds and fast cars, magic mountains and mountain trolls, stormy seas and wicked witches, as they take the family audience on a journey through ten pieces of classical music. Presenters include Blue Peter's Barney Harwood, Dick and Dom and Molly Rainford. They introduce Mozart's Horn Concerto, Mussorgsky's Night on a Bare Mountain, and John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine. Also featuring the dancers of Trinity Laban and a children's choir of 450 members. Artwork and performances from the nation's children are showcased on big screens and the lucky few perform live on stage. With a lively soundtrack, audience participation and a few surprises along the way, this is the culmination to the first year of the BBC's biggest ever music education initiative, one which has already engaged half of all the primary schools in the country.

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