23rd July 2014
Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom
PET SHOP BOYS Overture to 'Performance' (arr. R. Niles)
PET SHOP BOYS Four Songs in A minor (orch. A. Badalamenti)
('Vocal', 'Love is a Catastrophe', 'Later Tonight', 'Rent')
PET SHOP BOYS A Man from the Future (orch. S. Helbig)
Pet Shop Boys
Chrissie Hynde (vocalist)
Juliet Stevenson (narrator)
BBC Singers
BBC Concert Orchestra
Dominic Wheeler (conductor)
Thus beginneth le Proms binge 2014! I could not make it in time for Prom 7, but I thought I should stay for the Pet Shop Boys Prom anyway, as I have a tiny bit of interest in the Alan Turing work. Sadly, it was musically vacuous, conceptually thin and linear and completely relentless. They have done better stuff - perhaps the orchestra is not the right medium for them. It was particularly painful to listen to an amplified orchestra when you are facing one.
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