Amber Priestley - 'For Jocelyn Bell Burnell'
(BBC Commission, World Premiere)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov - conductor
Amber Priestley’s new work is inspired by conversations she had with the astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell one of the discoverers of pulsars (or neutron stars). For it, Priestley ‘imagined -through the filter of an orchestra - radio interference together with the regularity of the rhythm given off by a pulsar. My translation of this phenomenon is just one way that it can be heard’.
