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Tubular Bells Toll For Thee!
6:15 PM GMT 22/11/2011
The Charles Hazlewood All-Star Collective reboot Mike Oldfield's classic 1973 album, Tubular Bells, at the South Bank's Queen Elizabeth Hall venue on December 6 and the Sage in Gateshead on December 7.
You may know conductor Hazlewood from TV classical music progs such as The Genius Of Mozart and Tchaikovsky Uncovered, or his catholic late night Radio 2 show where Bob Marley rubs up against Zoltan Kodaly, and Shostakovitch sups with The Smiths. His group is a similarly eclectic bunch, harnessing Portishead multi-instrumentalist Adrian Utley alongside Goldfrapp's sonic architect Will Gregory. Combining strings and steam synths, they blur the boundaries between rock and classical soundworlds without sounding remotely like this.
The collective impressed earlier this year in a QEH performance of Gregory's first opera, Piccard In Space, but their union dates back to 2008's Glastonbury and their hypnagogic rendition of the entirety of Terry Riley's minimalist meisterwerk of 1969, A Rainbow In Curved Air, a piece they reprise in Part I of next month's two-part spectacular.
After what Hazlewood described exclusively to MOJO as this "gentle, psychedelic curtain-raiser", the group embark on Steve Reich's 15-minute piece, Four Organs. "This is nipple-tweakingly intense," explains the conductor. "You'll need a drink afterwards."
Aptly then, an intermission ensues, followed by Harp Phase, an arrangement of Reich's melodic Piano Phase for harpist Ruth Wall, then a glorious romp through the main event, Tubular Bells.
Hazlewood promises "a full-on re-upholstering of the old tart". MOJO will be there, agog.
Danny Eccleston
Photograph: Paul Roylance
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Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:15 PM GMT 22/11/2011
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