Prom 39: Friday 12th August at 10.15 p.m. (Spaghetti Western Orchestra)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The inventive multi-taskers of the Spaghetti Western Orchestra perform the epic scores of Ennio Morricone from the films of Sergio Leone.

The Australian group recreates Morricone's classic soundtracks from films such as 'Once Upon a Time in the West' and 'For a Few Dollars More' with only five players by using extraordinary virtuosity on a variety of instruments conventional and rather less so. "We really embraced the absurdity of a bunch of Aussie guys trying to do what Morricone did with a cast of hundreds", so expect new uses for an asthma inhaler and a cornflake packet as well as a rich vein of humour.

Spaghetti Western Orchestra.

[mercia]

sounds rather like an Edinburgh fringe event. I expect that's where they go next.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

i had the misfortune to catch a few minutes of this really awful stuff last night on bbc4, failure in art should be forgiven .. this stretched my forbearance and led me to wonder what else the money could have been spent on ... Kenny Wheeler for example

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

e.g.

[Serial_Apologist]

Oh boy! - one of my favourite tracks of all time!

[salymap]

S-A Should be called 'Fox killing a cat'............

saly

[Serial_Apologist]

S-A Should be called 'Fox killing a cat'............

saly

There's no answer to that... or a lot of other things