BBC Proms 2025 – Prom 06 - Berlioz’s ‘Symphonie fantastique’ (320...

BBC Proms 2025 – Prom 06 - Berlioz’s ‘Symphonie fantastique’ (320 kbps .mp3)

Live at the BBC Proms: The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra & conductor Anja Bihlmaier with guitarist Sean Shibe perform the world premiere of ZEBRA by Mark Simpson plus music by Strauss & Berlioz. Presented by Tom Service, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

01. Strauss, Richard - Death and Transfiguration
01a. Introduction to BBC Proms 2025 – Prom 06 - Berlioz’s ‘Symphonie fantastique’
02. Simpson, Mark - ZEBRA (or, 2-3-74: The Divine Invasion of Philip K. Dick) BBC commission: world premiere
02a. Introduction to Simpson’s ZEBRA
02b. Outro to ZEBRA
03. Messiaen - O sacrum convivium
03b. Introduction to BBC Proms 2025 – Interval
Composer Mark Simpson joins cultural historian Matthew Sweet and presenter Tom Service to discuss the writing of Philip K Dick, the American science-fiction author whose work has inspired films including Blade Runner and Minority Report, and Simpson's piece ZEBRA
04. Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique
04a. Outro to Berlioz

Sean Shibe, electric guitar
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Anja Bihlmaier, conductor

A concert of larger-than-life sounds, stories and characters has Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique at its heart. Heady, opium-fuelled visions create a kaleidoscopic sequence: a swirling ballroom, a march to the scaffold and a witches’ sabbath, all set to the obsessive pulse of unrequited love. Sci-fi legend Philip K. Dick inspires Mark Simpson’s ZEBRA, a new concerto for maverick guitarist and former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Sean Shibe. The concert opens with Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration – no less than a musical struggle between life and death, climaxing in a promise of eternal peace.