Prom 27 (6.08.20) BBC Radiophonic Workshop

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  • Eine Alpensinfonie
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    • Nov 2010
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    Prom 27 (6.08.20) BBC Radiophonic Workshop

    Tonight's concert takes a recent glance back to a Prom from just a few years ago, celebrating some of the great pioneers in electronic music. Daphne Oram’s visionary Still Point fills the Royal Albert Hall for the first time in the premiere of a revised realisation. Composed in 1949 – almost a decade before Oram co-founded the BBC Radiophonic Workshop – the piece is thought to be the first to combine a live orchestra with live electronic manipulations, here played via turntables.

    Still Point forms the centrepiece of a late-night sonic exploration that features works by Delia Derbyshire – another Radiophonic Workshop pioneer, who achieved cult status for her electronic arrangement of the Doctor Who TV theme – as well as new works inspired by the Radiophonic legacy.


    Delia Derbyshire: The Delian Mode
    CHAINES: Knockturning (world premiere of new arrangement for orchestra)
    Laurie Spiegel: Only Night Thoughts (world premiere)
    Suzanne Ciani: Improvisation on Four Sequences
    Daphne Oram: Still Point (world premiere of revised version)


    Shiva Feshareki (turntables/electronics)
    James Bulley (live mix/electronics)
    Suzanne Ciani (synthesiser)
    CHAINES (live electronics)
    London Contemporary Orchestra
    Robert Ames (conductor)

    (From the BBC Proms 2018, 23 July)
    Last edited by Eine Alpensinfonie; 01-08-20, 14:56.
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