Post Description

Pet Shop Boys with Chrissie Hynde/BBC Singers/BBC Concert Orchestra
BBC Prom 8 23rd July 2014
Royal Albert Hall, London, UK.

Broadcast by BBC Radio Four on 23rd July 2014 as part of BBC Proms, 2014 Season.


**[BBC Radio Four is an FM and digital broadcaster. Bit rate on DAB radio is[br]192kbps, DVB-T and Digital Satellite 160kbps. This, however, is a web (iplayer) capture]**

BBC 320kbps AAC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04b2m2y) > get_iplayer > Audacity (44.1KHz Wav) track cuts > flac

Tracklist

01 Spoken Introduction 2:43
02 Neil Tennant / Chris Lowe: Overture to 'Performance'(arr. R. Niles) 7:54
03 Neil Tennant / Chris Lowe: Pet Shop Boys Songs / Four Songs in A minor (orch. A. Badalamenti) 
   ('Vocal', 'Love is a Catastrophe', 'Later Tonight', 'Rent') 20:24
04 Spoken Introduction to 'A Man From The Future' 5:38
05 Neil Tennant / Chris Lowe: A Man from the Future (orch. S. Helbig) (world premiere) 48:15
06 Spoken Outro 4:18

Total Time: 89 min 12 sec


Juliet Stevenson (narrator)
Chrissie Hynde (vocalist)
Pet Shop Boys
BBC Singers
BBC Concert Orchestra
Dominic Wheeler (conductor)


The legendary Pet Shop Boys make their Proms debut in this Late Night Prom, joining the BBC Singers and BBC Concert Orchestra for the world premiere of A Man from the Future, a new piece for electronics, orchestra, choir and narrator.

The piece is inspired by the life and work of Alan Turing, who helped break the German Enigma code during the Second World War and formulated the concept of the digital computer, but was prosecuted in 1952 for his homosexuality, receiving a posthumous pardon last year. It comes as a timely homage, 60 years after Turing's death.

The concert also includes new orchestral arrangements by renowned film composer Angelo Badalamenti of five Pet Shop Boys songs chosen by Tennant and Lowe, in which they are joined by Chrissie Hynde, as well as the exuberant overture to their 1991 tour, Performance, heard live in concert for the first time.

from Dime