tenThing BBC Proms

Sparkling, passionate and highly virtuosic.

Tine Thing Helseth is one of the great trumpet players of today.

She loves performing as a soloist,

but she also gets a great kick

out of working with her ensemble, tenThing.

She's brought her fellow Norwegian players

to the BBC Proms, here at Cadogan Hall.

They begin their concert with music from Bizet's opera Carmen.

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Bizet's Carmen in the hands of tenThing.

It all started when Tine Thing Helseth

and four of her fellow musicians went to a concert

given by a string orchestra. Afterwards, they got chatting,

"Why can't we do the same with brass instruments?"

Here they are again playing music

from Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera.

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The brass ensemble tenThing playing the Cannon Song

from Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera.

Well, next, Tine Thing Helseth takes centre stage herself,

playing music by the great Argentinian tango king,

Astor Piazzolla - Oblivion.

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Astor Piazzolla's Oblivion

featuring trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth.

Well, all of tenThing's members are Norwegian,

so highly appropriate that they end their Cadogan Hall Prom

with works by Norway's greatest musical son, Edvard Grieg,

beginning with the prelude to his Holberg Suite.

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More Grieg now as tenThing play the March of the Dwarfs.

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Grieg's March of the Dwarfs performed by tenThing,

featuring Tina Ting Helseth,

bringing this Chamber Music Prom to a close here at Cadogan Hall.