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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 13- Pioneers of Sound - Late Night
Performance Date23 July 2018
Performance DayMonday
Performance Time22:15
Main PerformersJames Bulley - live-mix, electronics,
Shiva Feshareki - turntable, electronics,
Suzanne Ciani
Orchestra or BandLondon Contemporary Orchestra
ConductorsRobert Ames
Set List'The Delian Mode', D Derbyshire,
'Knockturning', CHAINES,
'Only Night Thoughts', L Spiegel,
'Improvisation on Four Sequences', S Ciani,
'Still Point’, D Oram
Performance NotesDaphne Oram’s visionary 'Still Point' fills the cavernous space of the Royal Albert Hall for the first time in the premiere of a revised realisation based on recently discovered archive material. Composed in 1949 – almost a decade before Oram co-founded the BBC Radiophonic Workshop – the piece was possibly 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 work 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.

World premiere of 'Only Night Thoughts', Laurie Spiegel.
World premiere of new arrangement for orchestra of 'Knockturning', CHAINES.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2018/51),
Programme (RAHE/1/2018/64),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2018/38),
Handbill (RAHE/6/2018/39)
Digital Photographs,
Posters (RAHE/2/2018/26, 41)
Ticket Prices£7.50-£100, £6 standing arena and gallery
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/6/2018/39BBC Proms - Late Night Greats at the BBC Proms23 July-6 September 2018
RAHE/1/2018/51BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty-Fourth Season - Proms Guide13 July-8 September 2018
RAHE/1/2018/64BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 13- Pioneers of Sound - Late Night23 July 2018
RAHE/6/2018/38BBC Proms Mini-Guide13 July-8 September 2018
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work11341BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty Fourth Season75
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/21952Feshareki; Shiva (1987-); English composer and turntablist
DS/UK/875London Contemporary Orchestra (LCO); 2008-; English orchestra
DS/UK/21953Ames; Robert (8 October 1985); British conductor and violist
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