Details

Part of the BBC Proms. To mark the centenary of John Cage's birth, Ilan Volkov has curated a programme that reflects the composer's iconoclastic thinking, fertile imagination and arresting humour. John Tilbury, who has for decades been associated with Cage's work tonight plays the exquisitely beautiful Concerto for Prepared Piano and Orchestra. Cassette players and plucked cactuses are just two examples of the blindingly original yet almost naively simple thinking that saw Cage - wittingly or otherwise - upturn practically every musical rule in the book. Finish time approx. 23:15

Cast/Performers

John Tilbury (piano / prepared piano), Frank Denyer (piano), Aki Takahashi (piano), Christian Wolff (piano), David Behrman (live electronics), Takehisa Kosugi (live electronics), Keith Rowe, Vicki Bennett, Steve Beresford, Adam Bohman, Jonathan Bohman, John Butcher, Karen Constance, Angharad Davies, Rhodri Davies, Patrick Farmer, Ram Gabay, Christoph Heemann, Lina Lapelyte, John Lely, Anton Lukoszevieze, Dylan Nyoukis, Mariam Rezaei, Robyn Schulkowsky, Dimitra Lazaridou Chatzigoga

Creatives/Company

Company(s): BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Exaudi
Conductor: Ilan Volkov