Prom 27: BBC Radio 6 Music (5.08.15)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

22:15
Royal Albert Hall

6Music's Mary Anne Hobbs presents a late night Prom performance featuring the influential German composer-performer Nils Frahm and the American duo A Winged Victory for the Sullen.


Nils Frahm (piano/keyboards)
Members of Wayne McGregor | Random Dance
A Winged Victory for the Sullen
London Brass

For this late-night 6Music Prom, Mary Anne Hobbs brings together two of her most ardent musical interests: the influential German composer-performer Nils Frahm and the American duo A Winged Victory for the Sullen, musicians who explore the borderlands of classical music. All are making their Proms debut this season. Mary Anne's interest in these artists was piqued when she noticed the seismic effect their music had whenever she played it on her 6Music weekend breakfast show.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

This isn't at all bad.

[Serial_Apologist]

This isn't at all bad.

Really? The first 10 minutes I thought I was bathing in musical maple syrup. When the piano came in with those stentorian chords of unsurpassed predictability, posing them with such profound self-importance, I couldn't stop myself laughing out loud. Just as well I didn't go along to the concert! (pace the thread about audience applause!).

I suppose when certain Progrock bands began prostrating themselves before the wonders of Bachian harmonies in the 1970s I should have been able to predict that once the slide into capitalist realist retrogression started there would be no end to it.

This seems to be the worst example I have yet come across of bad music being presented within and outwith the holy of holies as exemplary in bringing people into Euroclassical music.

And it's not even tuneful.

[Beef Oven!]

This isn't at all bad.

We appear to agree.

[DracoM]

Reminds me of some of the Kronos Qt's work, and even Jocelyn Pook.

[Beef Oven!]

Tangerine Dream meet John Adams and Keith Jarrett.

[Beef Oven!]

I thought that was a really good gig. I wish I had gone along, but it makes for a bit of late night.

[Serial_Apologist]

I must repeat to myself this mantra:

There is no such thing as bad music.

[Stunsworth]

Tangerine Dream meet John Adams and Keith Jarrett.

I was thinking of Tangerine Dream myself. I enjoyed it a lot.

[Beef Oven!]

I was thinking of Tangerine Dream myself. I enjoyed it a lot.

[Bryn]

Reminds me of some of the Kronos Qt's work, and even Jocelyn Pook.

Not quite that bad, surely?

[Serial_Apologist]

Not quite that bad, surely?

I was wondering what Draco could be referring to as well. Which Kronos work? Ms Pook's work is harmless enough: I think it would have been classed as light music in the 1950s.

[DracoM]

Well, there now - ashamed to reveal my Reader's Digest tastes.

I rather admire the eclectic nature of the Kronos Qt and some of their experimentation and re-thinking.

Another possible thread in the genre here is of course Brian Eno.
But I imagine that shunts me into the LJ / R2.5 wasteland. Apologies.

[Serial_Apologist]

Well, there now - ashamed to reveal my Reader's Digest tastes.

I rather admire the eclectic nature of the Kronos Qt and some of their experimentation and re-thinking.

Another possible thread in the genre here is of course Brian Eno.
But I imagine that shunts me into the LJ / R2.5 wasteland. Apologies.

I'm almost prepared to forgive Eno for everything, now that he's publicly come out for Jeremy.

[Beef Oven!]

Another possible thread in the genre here is of course Brian Eno.
But I imagine that shunts me into the LJ / R2.5 wasteland. Apologies.

That's where I must be too - who cares!!!