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The disco movement transformed the sound of 1970s pop music as well as the style and fashion of the decade. To highlight the sonic innovations in some of the hits that electrified the dance floor in New York and beyond, the Â鶹Éç Concert Orchestra has commissioned new arrangements of them, tailor-made for its sixty players. Singers Vanessa Haynes, Vula Malinga, Cedric Neal and Elisabeth Troy, and conductor Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser join the Orchestra to celebrate a pivotal movement in late 20th-century club culture and the glorious music it produced.
In this concert from the Royal Albert Hall in London, Andrew McGregor and composer and music producer Mykaell Riley introduce new orchestral arrangements of songs originally made famous by Chic, Gloria Gaynor, Donna Summer, Diana Ross, Bee Gees and others.

Broadcast Programme:
Bernard Edwards/Nile Rodgers* - Le Freak/Everybody Dance
Bernard Edwards/Nile Rodgers* - I’m Coming Out
Janice Gugliuzza/Ronnie James/Vincent Montana Jr* - Runaway
Dino Fekaris/Freddie Perren/Clifton Davis* - I Will Survive/Never Can Say Goodbye

Walter Murphy (after Ludwig van Beethoven)* - A Fifth of Beethoven
Pete Bellotte/Harold Faltermeyer/Keith Forsey* - Hot Stuff
Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb‡ - If I Can’t Have You
Wally Holmes* - Rock the Boat
Gerald Jackson/Pete Jackson‡ - Turn the Beat Around
Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb* - Night Fever

Arrangements by *Callum Au and ‡Ben Woodgates

(Photo: Colourful lights illuminate the Royal Albert Hall during the Everybody Dance! Prom concert. Credit: Â鶹Éç/Andy Paradise)