tenThing

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0:00:11 > 0:00:15Sparkling, passionate and highly virtuosic.

0:00:15 > 0:00:19Tine Thing Helseth is one of the great trumpet players of today.

0:00:19 > 0:00:21She loves performing as a soloist,

0:00:21 > 0:00:22but she also gets a great kick

0:00:22 > 0:00:25out of working with her ensemble, tenThing.

0:00:25 > 0:00:27She's brought her fellow Norwegian players

0:00:27 > 0:00:29to the BBC Proms, here at Cadogan Hall.

0:00:29 > 0:00:33They begin their concert with music from Bizet's opera Carmen.

0:00:33 > 0:00:36APPLAUSE

0:06:26 > 0:06:29APPLAUSE

0:06:29 > 0:06:32Bizet's Carmen in the hands of tenThing.

0:06:32 > 0:06:34It all started when Tine Thing Helseth

0:06:34 > 0:06:36and four of her fellow musicians went to a concert

0:06:36 > 0:06:39given by a string orchestra. Afterwards, they got chatting,

0:06:39 > 0:06:42"Why can't we do the same with brass instruments?"

0:06:42 > 0:06:44Here they are again playing music

0:06:44 > 0:06:48from Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera.

0:17:28 > 0:17:31APPLAUSE

0:17:31 > 0:17:33The brass ensemble tenThing playing the Cannon Song

0:17:33 > 0:17:36from Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera.

0:17:36 > 0:17:39Well, next, Tine Thing Helseth takes centre stage herself,

0:17:39 > 0:17:42playing music by the great Argentinian tango king,

0:17:42 > 0:17:45Astor Piazzolla - Oblivion.

0:21:43 > 0:21:45APPLAUSE

0:21:45 > 0:21:47Astor Piazzolla's Oblivion

0:21:47 > 0:21:49featuring trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth.

0:21:51 > 0:21:54Well, all of tenThing's members are Norwegian,

0:21:54 > 0:21:57so highly appropriate that they end their Cadogan Hall Prom

0:21:57 > 0:22:01with works by Norway's greatest musical son, Edvard Grieg,

0:22:01 > 0:22:04beginning with the prelude to his Holberg Suite.

0:24:29 > 0:24:32APPLAUSE

0:24:34 > 0:24:38More Grieg now as tenThing play the March of the Dwarfs.

0:28:00 > 0:28:04APPLAUSE

0:28:04 > 0:28:07Grieg's March of the Dwarfs performed by tenThing,

0:28:07 > 0:28:09featuring Tina Ting Helseth,

0:28:09 > 0:28:12bringing this Chamber Music Prom to a close here at Cadogan Hall.