Frank Zappa - 2022 - The Dog Breath Variations - Uncle Meat - BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Описание: Total Immersion: The Barbican, London, UK 2022 03 19. Broadcast 2022 - 03 - 25.


Few have influenced music like Frank Zappa. Now the 20th century titan becomes the focus of a BBC Symphony Orchestra Total Immersion Day, recorded last Saturday at the Barbican Centre. Ever the experimentalist, Zappa's music explores influences as diverse as classical modernism, free improvisation, rock and roll virtuosity and cultural satire. Expect the unexpected in an evening of performances where Brad Lubman conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Guildhall's Ubu Ensemble, led by Simon Wills, explores the ensemble music.



Following a diagnosis of terminal cancer, in 1991 Zappa agreed to appear as a featured composer at the Frankfurt Festival the next year. What started as a cautious collaboration turned into an inspired one when Zappa started working with the German contemporary music orchestra, Ensemble Modern. The concerts that followed have gone down in history, thanks in part to The Yellow Shark.


For Frank Zappa, the symphony orchestra was the consummate vehicle for musical storytelling. Brad Lubman leads this live streamed evening culminating in Zappa's acknowledged orchestral masterpieces. In 1983, Zappa hired the London Symphony Orchestra and recorded 90 minutes of his freest, most imaginative and most wickedly entertaining music with the ensemble.