Jonny Greenwood's Norwegian Wood suite premieres at the Proms

A suite from Jonny Greenwood's score for Norwegian Wood had its world premiere at the Film Music Prom at the Royal Albert Hall on Friday 12 August, played by the BBC Concert Orchestra under Keith Lockhart. The rest of the programme was film music by Bernard Herrmann, Ennio Morricone, John Williams and others.

Norwegian Wood is Tran Anh Hung's film of the Haruki Murakami novel, which opened in Japan in December and in Britain in March. The suite was arranged by Robert Ziegler.

Ziegler also conducted the BBC Concert Orchestra in the first performance of “Doghouse” in 2010. Greenwood's publisher, Faber Music, says that piece was a BBC commission and that the film's orchestral passages were taken from it, so the music is back, as a suite, with the orchestra that first played it.