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Prom 8: Pet Shop Boys

A Prom featuring the Pet Shop Boys with Chrissie Hynde in arrangements of their own songs plus the world premiere of their work A Man from the Future, inspired by Alan Turing.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Better known as the electro-pop duo the Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe make their Proms debut here as composers. The world premiere of their large-scale work A Man from the Future, inspired by code-breaker Alan Turing, sits alongside new orchestral arrangements of favourite Pet Shop Boys songs with legendary vocalist Chrissie Hynde.

Neil Tennant / Chris Lowe: Overture to 'Performance'
Neil Tennant / Chris Lowe: Pet Shop Boys songs
Neil Tennant / Chris Lowe: A Man from the Future (orch. S. Helbig) (world premiere)

Juliet Stevenson (narrator)
Chrissie Hynde (vocalist)
Pet Shop Boys
麻豆官网首页入口 Singers
麻豆官网首页入口 Concert Orchestra
Dominic Wheeler (conductor)

The legendary Pet Shop Boys make their Proms debut in this Late Night Prom, joining the 麻豆官网首页入口 Singers and 麻豆官网首页入口 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.

1 hour, 45 minutes

Music Played

  • Pet Shop Boys

    Overture to 'Performance'

    Performer: 麻豆官网首页入口 Concert Orchestra. Performer: 麻豆官网首页入口 Singers. Conductor: Dominic Wheeler.
  • Pet Shop Boys

    Pet Shop Boys songs

    Performer: Chrissie Hynde. Performer: 麻豆官网首页入口 Singers. Performer: 麻豆官网首页入口 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Dominic Wheeler.
  • Pet Shop Boys

    Later Tonight

    Performer: Chrissie Hynde. Performer: 麻豆官网首页入口 Singers. Performer: 麻豆官网首页入口 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Dominic Wheeler.
  • Pet Shop Boys

    Love is a Catastrophe

    Performer: Chrissie Hynde. Performer: 麻豆官网首页入口 Singers. Performer: 麻豆官网首页入口 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Dominic Wheeler.
  • Pet Shop Boys

    Rent

    Performer: Chrissie Hynde. Performer: 麻豆官网首页入口 Singers. Performer: 麻豆官网首页入口 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Dominic Wheeler.
  • Pet Shop Boys

    Vocal

    Performer: Chrissie Hynde. Performer: 麻豆官网首页入口 Singers. Performer: 麻豆官网首页入口 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Dominic Wheeler.
  • Pet Shop Boys

    A Man from the Future (orch. S. Helbig) (world premiere)

    Performer: 麻豆官网首页入口 Concert Orchestra. Performer: 麻豆官网首页入口 Singers. Conductor: Dominic Wheeler.

Credits

Role Contributor
Performer 麻豆官网首页入口 Singers
Performer 麻豆官网首页入口 Concert Orchestra
Performer Pet Shop Boys
Performer Chrissie Hynde

Broadcast

  • Wed 23 Jul 2014 22:15

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