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Live at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms: The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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

Richard Strauss: Death and Transfiguration
Mark Simpson: ZEBRA (or, 2-3-74: The Divine Invasion of Philip K. Dick) ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ commission: world premiere

c.8.30pm
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

c.8.50pm
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique

Sean Shibe, electric guitar
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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.