CBBC @ the Ten Pieces II Prom Ten Pieces

-KIDS:

-Something's coming.

It's music.

-Exciting.

-Enchanting.

-Magical.

-Mysterious.

-Beautiful.

Brilliant music.

It's our music.

And it's here now, in the Royal Albert Hall.

Because this is...

-ALL:

-The Ten Pieces Prom!

APPLAUSE

That was Bach's Toccata played for us

by the wonderful Wayne Marshall.

What a fantastic way to open our concert.

Well, welcome, everyone, to our very special Ten Pieces Prom.

I'm Naomi Wilkinson

and I'm sure lots of you will recognise the orchestra behind me.

They are, of course, the stars of the Ten Pieces film.

And as you can see, they are poised,

ready to play their musical socks off for you once again.

The BBC Philharmonic with leader Yuri Torchinsky

and their conductor, the amazing Alpesh Chauhan.

APPLAUSE

So, are you all ready to hear this brilliant orchestra?

-AUDIENCE:

-Yes!

Well, what if you couldn't?

What if you couldn't listen to the music you wanted to

or make the music you loved?

Imagine that?

Imagine you're the composer of our next piece, Dmitri Shostakovich.

From the 1930s, for two decades, like all Russians,

he's ruled over by an evil dictator,

Joseph Stalin.

Imagine waiting in the night, your heart racing,

waiting for the fist knocking on the door,

waiting to be taken away or killed

because you've dared to write the music that you believed in,

because Shostakovich did dare.

ORCHESTRA PLAYS

APPLAUSE

Shostakovich's Symphony Number 10, choreographed and performed

by these incredible dancers from Wildern School in Southampton.

Time for the next of our ten pieces. Alpesh, which one do you fancy?

Ahem!

If one were to be asked...

Joseph Haydn, JH at your service.

The late Joseph Haydn?

I thought I was spot on time, actually.

-Composer Joseph Haydn?

-The very same.

So excited to be back in London again after,

well, 220 years, to be precise.

So...what do you fancy?

I've got over 100 symphonies, 68 string quartets,

47 keyboard sonatas, 398 folk song arrangements,

-a techno rap...

-Techno rap?

Yes, to be honest, that one's still in development.

Do you know what, Haydn? I think I'd better go and check

and see if we've actually got time for this.

Oh. Ah, would you like to hear a little something new

that I've been working on this morning?

-AUDIENCE:

-Yes!

-Fantastic.

We'll all learn the melody together. So...

-Now you.

-HE SINGS MELODY

Very good.

HE SINGS MELODY

OK, and...

THEY SING MELODY

Now, let's hear them all together.

HE PLAYS Match Of The Day Theme

-Now you!

-THEY SING

Ah!

You already seem to know it. Well, orchestra, take it away.

-Ah!

-AUDIENCE CHEER

OK, OK.

Ah, I think I might have another hit on my hands.

I'm not too sure, I think that piece might have been written already.

Let me introduce myself. Mr Dion Dublin.

Used to play a bit of football

when I was a lot younger.

Played for...Leicester City?

SOME CHEERS

-Norwich City?

-SOME CHEERS

There's one in.

-England?

-AUDIENCE CHEER

That's amazing!

You've scored almost as many goals for those teams

as the number of symphonies I've written.

Joseph Haydn, JH at your service.

I know your name, I know that name. Haydn, Haydn, hold it.

You've got an amazing track record.

Always on the top of the list when it comes to composers.

There you are.

To get those kinds of results

takes great players, Mr Dublin.

And today, my new signing

will be making her first team debut here at the Proms.

THEY CHEER

I think it's time to kick off.

Our brand-new superstar striker, Matilda Lloyd.

APPLAUSE

Our Premier League trumpeter, the fabulous Matilda Lloyd.

Right, so, Alpesh, next, I think we should have something big.

Something epic, something by Richard Wagner.

ORCHESTRA PLAYS OUT OF TUNE

Is there a problem? Sorry, I'm not quite sure.

For some reason, we can't seem to make the Wagner work.

It seems to be broken.

Oh, I'm really sorry, everybody, about this.

I've just been told Newsround's Leah Boleto is on the case

trying to find out why it is we have this Wagner breakdown on our hands.

I think we can join her right now. Leah, are you there?

Yes, Naomi.

I'm in central London, where reports are coming through

that rings of golden light are appearing throughout the city.

They seem to be forming on round objects

like this shop sign in Hackney.

These bicycles near Piccadilly have also been affected.

Now, it's too early to know if there's a connection

between this strange activity

and the Wagner breakdown

that you're experiencing,

but I'll be investigating this story

and I'll bring you the very latest

developments as I get them.

Well, let's hope we hear more news from Leah quickly.

Meanwhile, we've got some young musicians

from the Greater Manchester Music Hub joining us.

They're going to be playing side-by-side

with the BBC Philharmonic and they're going to whisk us away

to the sizzling sun of southern Spain.

That's where Georges Bizet wrote his opera Carmen,

a story with more love, death and betrayal in it

than a whole year of EastEnders.

LAUGHTER

Let's say a massive thank you to our super-talented young musicians

from the Greater Manchester Music Hub.

Naomi, I'm here by the river

because this is where a whirlwind has just swept through.

I've never seen anything like it in my life. I was just metres away.

A figure covered in golden light rushing by in a blur of noise.

I'm also told of sightings of mysterious creatures quite similar

coming up all over London.

In fact, they've just been seen near here, at Big Ben.

Now, according to one expert I've been speaking to,

these creatures are actually mistaking all these round objects

for something else that they're looking for.

A ring, but not any ring.

This ring gives the owner

the power to rule the world.

But I'm getting reports that

that ring is now missing.

Surely this can't be a coincidence,

happening at the same time

as your Wagner breakdown.

It was Wagner who wrote four operas

in which dwarves, giants, dragon slayers and gods

all battle it out, Lord Of The Rings style,

to be the owner of this very same ring.

Now, we can't say for certain - thank you -

but I've just been handed this.

Yes, telling me that the authorities

are giving these mysterious creatures a name.

One word, Valkyries.

CRACKLING NOISE

Some very strange sounds in that news report from Leah.

We'll keep our fingers crossed

we'll be able to play that Wagner piece for you soon.

Meanwhile, we need some music.

It's got to be big, exciting...

And on the violin!

In fact, actually, it's the music by Giuseppe Verdi.

-Oh, fiddlesticks.

-It's called Dies Irae.

Yes, two little words, huge consequences.

"Dies" means day in Latin, "Irae" is wrath or anger.

Day of judgment!

It's almost impossible to explain how powerful this song is.

You don't stop and think about it, it just instinctively...

You feel it in your body.

It will really make you feel small and insignificant

in a really good way.

It's going to be big and it's going to be scary

and it's going to be great.

-ALL:

-# Dies irae! Dies irae!

# Dies irae, dies illa!

# Solvet saeclum in favilla

# Teste David cum Sibylla

# Dies irae, dies irae

# Dies illa

# Solvet saeclum

# Solvet in favilla

-# Dies irae, dies illa

-# Dies! Dies!

# Solvet saeclum in favilla, teste David cum Sibylla

# Dies irae, dies illa

# Solvet saeclum in favilla

-# Solvet saeclum in favilla

-# Dies irae!

-# Teste David cum Sibylla

-# Dies irae

# Dies illa

# Dies irae

# Dies irae

# Dies irae

# Quantus tremor est futurus

# Quando judex est venturus

# Cuncta stricte discussurus!

# Tuba mirum spargens sonum!

-# Tuba mirum

-# Tuba

# Spargens

# Sonum!

-# Tuba mirum

-# Spargens sonum

# Spargens sonum

# Per sepulcra regionem

# Coget omnes ante thronum! #

APPLAUSE

The incredible Ten Pieces Choir!

Now, music's always evolving, it's never standing still,

and our next piece proves that 100%.

It was written just a few years ago

by English composer Gabriel Prokofiev.

To play Gabriel's Concerto For Turntables And Orchestra,

please give a Royal Albert warm welcome

to the four-time world champion DJ, Mr Switch.

APPLAUSE

BIRDS CHIRP

Listen! Can you hear something?

Look up. Up to the roof.

Imagine it fading away, opening up to a beautiful blue sky

over rolling green fields and there...

-..can you hear...

-SOLO VIOLIN PLAYS

..a lark?

And there's a composer, Vaughan Williams, too,

walking in the fields,

dreaming of a melody he'll write for the violin,

that'll soar and climb just like the bird.

And he will write it.

But not yet.

The First World War interrupts his dream

and Vaughan Williams goes to help on the battlefields in France.

And as the soldiers look up from the trenches, sometimes,

one of the few birds they can see high, higher,

higher on the breeze is the lark.

They can hear its song, reminding them of happier days.

APPLAUSE

Marvellous! That one lark could inspire all that beautiful music.

A memory, a poem, a story, a feeling,

they can all inspire you to make music.

Or what about a picture?

A few years ago, English composer Anna Clyne

saw an image in her mind of a dark, turbulent wave.

And the first thing she did was to paint it.

But Anna soon found herself wanting to turn that painting into music,

and soon, there emerged a night ferry.

APPLAUSE

Dion, Naomi, things are moving

really fast out here at the moment.

We know that there are Valkyrie sightings all across London.

We just don't know where they will appear next.

I've spoken to one Wagner expert who has told me

normally in Wagner's opera,

the role of the Valkyrie is to search the battlefields

to find fallen heroes, to take them away

to guard the home of the Gods.

But today, I'm getting reports that the search is only

for that missing ring, to try to return it to its home in the river.

And what I'm being told is that unless the ring is returned there,

this strange activity and your Wagner breakdown is set to continue.

So, this is able to track the heat signals given off by the Valkyries.

The thing is, for most of the day,

the Valkyries have been scattered all over London.

But now, they're all heading in the same direction

to what actually looks like a ring on the map.

I think it's quite close...

..to where I'm standing.

Nao...

We seem to have lost Leah there.

We will try and get back to her.

Meanwhile, in the nick of time,

our special guests have arrived on stage.

Yes, we're all here because of you.

All over the country, you've been creating your own digital art,

animation, performance poetry, dance and a lot of music

in response to the ten pieces that we're hearing today.

APPLAUSE

Thank you to our brilliant young musicians and performers today,

all inspired by the Ten Pieces.

Is that just me, Lemn, or did you see those lights flickering?

Naomi, I'm here in the Royal Albert Hall

because reports are coming in now that the missing ring,

the ring that Wagner's music is all about, is in fact here.

It's the perfect-shaped building for it to hide in

and it would explain why the music has been behaving so strangely.

Keep your eyes open for the Valkyries.

They can appear anywhere at any minute.

ORCHESTRA PLAYS

That was the amazing Ride Of The Valkyries

by Richard Wagner.

And as the Valkyries head home,

so soon must we, because our musical adventure is almost over for today.

Hopefully, yours is just beginning.

We've only had time for ten pieces today

but there's thousands more out there.

So, stick some classical music on your phone or your tablet,

listen to it online or live.

All you need to do is hit play and see where the music takes you.

We've still got time for one more piece, number ten.

-Ahem!

-Joseph.

Now, I really am sorry.

Don't worry, I'm not here with another piece,

although I still have plenty, all very reasonably priced.

No, I wanted to say one little word.

I've waited 284 years to say it.

Mambo!

-ALL:

-Mambo!

-ALL:

-Mambo!