A Prom concert I missed previously was rebroadcast on the Radio 3 afternoon program earlier today. The new National Youth Orchestra of the U.S.A. was conducted by Valery Gergiev in a program that featured the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with Joshua Bell as soloist and Shostakovich's massive 10th Symphony(with an encore of selections from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess). After beginning with a seemingly almost obligatory new composition which consisted of about 7 minutes of noise(receiving its first and probably last public performance), the young musicians presented the Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich pieces very well. In fact they played remarkably well, especially considering that they were between 16 and 19 and had only gotten together a few weeks previously. This rebroadcast is also available for 7 days on the
iPlayer site .
