She will also make her debut with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under Vasily Petrenko. One of the Wigmore Hall’s “Emerging Artists” of the 2015/2016 season, she has already performed with major UK orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, and this season will see her debut with the Hallé Orchestra, with whom she will perform the Tchaikovsky concerto with Stephen Bell. Her recital programme will include a new work by Oliver Knussen, written for Tamsin Waley-Cohen and commissioned by the ECHO Rising Stars programme. The tour will begin with her return to Birmingham Symphony Hall – the venue that nominated her for the programme. The only British artist selected for the prestigious programme of the European Concert Halls Organisation, she will embark on a major tour to Europe’s foremost concert halls, including Musikverein in Vienna, Cité de la Musique in Paris, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Barbican in London and Philharmonie in Cologne. Starship Titanic is available on BBC Sounds – click here To keep up with the blog and all the latest online theatre reviews please click here and choose a follow option For my Theatre Online list (suggestions and news of newly released productions) please click here.Described by the Guardian as a performer of “fearless intensity”, young British violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen is one of the ECHO Rising Stars of the 2016/17 season. In Douglas Adamss computer Adventure Videogame, Starship Titanic (1999), the titular Starship. Make yourself a fish paste sandwich, pour yourself a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster and enjoy the clever mayhem. Starship Titanic is a great post-Christmas treat for Adams/Jones/Maggs fans with a strong if convoluted narrative and plenty of back referencing to the mythos of someone who is still one of the country’s favourite comic writers. The parrot is just annoying – but then it is meant to be. There is also a highly co-operative bomb which, if asked nicely, will keep resetting its countdown function so the unwitting humans aboard can avoid destruction. First released in 1998, Starship Titanic is a point-and-click adventure that takes place aboard the titular space vessel. There are various bots which adopt a whole range of very human characteristics and any number of automatic doors which add their commentary to proceedings. There’s also some almost traditional fun to be had with the technological aspects of the ship. These seem to be based on the thematic approach adopted by Las Vegas casino hotels – both the Venetian and the Luxor are referenced. There’s some pleasing music from Philip Pope, another frequent collaborator with both Adams and Maggs.Īlthough it is a piece which really cries out for the visual dimension, this audio recording does a fine job in conjuring up the opulence of the starship’s interiors. The rest of the cast have clearly done their homework as far as capturing the extremely dry wit and bathos of the originals. As ever Adams’ scorn for middle management remains intact. In another nod to the past Simon Jones (the original and best Arthur Dent) also pops up as a bent space accountant whose idea it is to destroy the starship as part of a massive insurance fraud scam. As has become the recognised form, the narrated interpolations contain some of the best comic utterances and provide a respite from the rather frantic comedy that goes on around them. This time round it is called “The Encyclopaedia Galactica” and, pleasingly, features the dulcet tones of Jones’ old compadre Michael Palin. Of course, in any Adams related product there has to be a sardonically voiced book – I think it may well be enshrined in law. The production is a great homage to Adams and Jones, capturing the technologically whimsical spirit and clever humour of both authors. It is adapted by Ian Billings and masterminded by Dirk Maggs, who has kept Adams’ flag flying with the audio versions of the later entries to the Hitchhiker’s Guide saga as well as the Dirk Gently books. Jones, also alas no longer with us, did an incredibly good job of aping Adams’ style, as does a newly dramatized audio version of Starship Titanic broadcast on the BBC last weekend and now available via Sounds. So, with five weeks to go before product launch he phoned his friend Terry Jones and asked him to provide the book it made it to the shelves on time. But if you know anything about the author, you will know the one thing that he hated was writing and that he regularly missed/ignored deadlines. It’s the voice saying YOU’VE GOT MAIL - HU-HA. I changed the theme after a while, but kept one sound - The Suc-U-Bus. It was fun and one slow day at work I downloaded the desktop theme from the official site. As part of the original process a novelised version of the game was supposed to be provided. 1 Some years ago I played the computer game Starship Titanic.
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