Laurie Spiegel's music is featured next, but with no electronics as might be expected - Only Night Falls is a rare orchestral work by Spiegel. The next part of the concert, and the highlight for me, returns to electronic music in stunning style, as Suzanne Ciani sits down at the Buchla synth for her Improvisation On Four Sequences. It's a heady immersion in expertly-tweaked electronics, and for any connoisseurs out there of "radio presenters who can't pronounce Moog properly", you're in for an extra treat at the end of it.
The stage is then reconfigured for the two orchestras (one amplified with echo effects), electronics and turntables required for the epic finale. Daphne Oram's Still Point was written in 1949 when she was just 23, and more than lives up to the Pioneers Of Sound concept. The score was thought lost until some drafts emerged and led to a Proms premiere in 2016, then a full score was found shortly afterwards which at last allowed for the full performance captured here. Next week - music from this year's Proms.
link
pw: sgtg
