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TUESDAY 19 AUGUST
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5.15pm - 6pm: Proms Intro The electronic music revolution - Jonathan Harvey talks to Andrew McGregor about how technology has introduced a radically new creative environment for today's composers.
Prom 45: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
- Date Tuesday 19 August 2008
- Time 7.00pm - c10.00pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £6-£35 price band A or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
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A rare opportunity to enter the electroacoustic sound-world.
While Jonathan Harvey's UK premiere plays on the musical content of speech, his Tombeau de Messiaen is his homage to 'a great musical and spiritual presence' - represented tonight by the Concert à quatre, a work completed after Messiaen's death by his widow Yvonne Loriod.
As well as Harvey's classic Mortuos plango, vivos voco, the concert features two works by one of the earliest pioneers of electronic music.
- Jonathan Harvey Tombeau de Messiaen (9 mins)
- Messiaen Concert à quatre (26 mins)
- Interval
- Jonathan Harvey Mortuos plango, vivos voco (9 mins) (Stanley Haynes IRCAM computer music designer)
- Jonathan Harvey Speakings (Gilbert Nouno, Arshia Cont IRCAM computer music designers) (BBC co-commission, with IRCAM-Centre Pompidou and Radio France: world premiere) (25 mins)
- Interval
- Varèse Poème électronique (8 mins)
- Déserts (24 mins)
Cédric Tiberghien piano
Emily Beynon flute
Alexei Ogrintchouk oboe
Danjulo Ishizaka cello
Jonthan Harvey, Ben Bayliss, Chris Beddall sound projection
Jêrémie Henrot, Clément Marie IRCAM sound projection
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov conductor
Danjulo Ishizaka is a member of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme.
BBC Radio 3
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