Prom 27: The Sound of Space: Sci-Fi Film Music - 7.08.19

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

22:15 Wednesday 7 August 2019
Royal Albert Hall

Jed Kurzel: Alien: Covenant
Hans Zimmer:Interstellar
Mica Levi: Under the Skin
Clint Mansell: Moon
Steven Price: Gravity
John Murphy: Sunshine
Carly Paradis: The Innocents

London Contemporary Orchestra
Robert Ames conductor

A Late Night Prom with a futuristic spin brings together some of the best sci-fi film music. Excerpts from cult soundtracks come together with recent works by Hans Zimmer and Mica Levi.

The award winning London Contemporary Orchestra – whose collaborators include Radiohead, Goldfrapp and Steve Reich – perform music from Under the Skin, Interstellar and the recent Netflix series The Innocents, among other titles, as well as from Alien: Covenant, whose soundtrack the LCO recorded.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

An interesting programme. In a way, I wish some of these works were not put in the loft (the late night Proms).

[bluestateprommer]

From this list of movies, the only one of them that I'd seen was Interstellar. (I don't do NetFlix, so that knocks out The Innocents.) However, I admit to not particularly recognizing the music when the orchestra performed it. I got the general sense that none of the music stood up strongly away from the visual images. The London Contemporary Orchestra generally did well, in music that admittedly doesn't call for subtlety.