Composer Thomas Ades plus a National Youth Orchestra studio takeover!

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Tom Service with guests, stories and the perfect classical soundtrack for the weekend! Tom is joined by the composer and conductor Thomas Adès. As a composer, Adès has created a stunning musical language all of his own and is one of the world's most inventive and in demand composers. Described as a 'modern masterpiece', his multi-award winning ballet 'Dante' is being performed at the Proms this week, the first part by the LA Phil and Gustavo Dudamel and the second with the young players of the National Youth Orchestra, with whom Adès has a long association. Some of those players will be joining Tom in the studio to play an exclusive live session and chat about their concert happening later that day at the BBC Proms. Also, as part of our focus on musical Creators, Tom talks to the Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz. Her music fuses Mexican traditions with contemporary classical music and has won her Best Contemporary Classical Composition at the Grammys for the past two years, including her ballet Revolución diamantina, which is given its UK premiere at the Proms this week. She chats to Tom about her musical language and background.