The writers Simon Heffer and Andrew O'Hagan discuss the halcyon days of light music at the ´óÏó´«Ã½ and beyond with Matthew Sweet. With its jaunty melodies and cascading strings, they restore it to its proper place: the heart of British musical life. Recorded in front of an audience at the Royal College of Music as part of this year's Proms Plus events.
Barry Wordsworth and the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra, with pianists Noriko Ogawa and Kathryn Stott, offer a parade of British light and occasional music, including Arnold’s Concerto for two pianos (three hands), Bantock’s bittersweet Pierrot of the Minute, Elgar’s Nursery Suite and a medley of radio favourites.
Barry Wordsworth and the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra, with pianists Noriko Ogawa and Kathryn Stott, offer a parade of British light and occasional music, including Arnold’s Concerto for two pianos (three hands), Bantock’s bittersweet Pierrot of the Minute, Elgar’s Nursery Suite and a medley of radio favourites.
Fasten your seat belts as Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra plunge into Frank Zappa’s counter-culture satire The Adventures of Greggery Peccary, with a car-chase, a coughing mountain and a choir of stenographers. A wild Study for player piano by Conlon Nancarrow and the UK premiere of Philip Glass’s Tenth Symphony complete a far-reaching Late Night Prom.
Fasten your seat belts as Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra plunge into Frank Zappa’s counter-culture satire The Adventures of Greggery Peccary, with a car-chase, a coughing mountain and a choir of stenographers. A wild Study for player piano by Conlon Nancarrow and the UK premiere of Philip Glass’s Tenth Symphony complete a far-reaching Late Night Prom.