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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2023 - One Hundred and Twenty Eighth Season - Prom 58: John Hopkins with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Jules Buckley
Performance Date29 August 2023
Performance DayTuesday
Performance Time20:00
Main PerformersJon Hopkins - piano
Secondary PerformersLeo Abrahams - guitar
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsBBC Singers,
BBC Chorus
ConductorsJules Buckley
Set List'ATHOS', arr. J Buckley,
'Feel First Life', arr. P Riley, L Abrahams,
'The Wider Sun', arr. S Gale,
'Singularity', arr. S Dobson,
'Music for Psychedelic Therapy (excerpt)', arr. P Riley,
'Form by Firelight', arr. P Riley,
'Luna Moth', arr. S Gale,
'Collider', arr. S Dobson,
'Abandon Window', arr. T Trapp
ENCORE
'Recovery'
Performance NotesBritish composer Jon Hopkins – whose work has been nominated for Grammy, Mercury and Ivor Novello awards – makes his BBC Proms debut with a BBC commission and world premiere of a 22-minute psychedelic drone epic for orchestra, choir and piano.

Alongside this are reinterpretations of pieces from three of his critically acclaimed albums – Immunity, Singularity and Music for Psychedelic Therapy – re-imagined to form what Hopkins calls a ‘group sonic meditation for 5,000 people’.

A collaboration with the BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Creative Artist-in-Association Jules Buckley, this atmospheric Prom focuses on the meditative and emotional side of Hopkins’s musical output, leading you on a powerfully immersive journey.

There was no interval.

The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
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Programme (RAHE/1/2023/ ),
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Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work12976BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2023 - One Hundred and Twenty Eightth Season71
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/2196Buckley; Jules (fl 2004-); English conductor, composer, musical director
DS/UK/23542Hopkins; Jon (15 August 1979); English musician and producer
DS/UK/958British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Singers; 1924-; British chamber choir
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/894British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Chorus; 1928-; British amateur chorus
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