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JS Bach (1685-1750)
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1 .00pm Proms Chamber Music 2020
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recorded at London’s Cadogan Hall in
August 2015, with the Apollon
Musagète Quartet performing. Webern
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Quartet No. 5); and Beethoven (String
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Throughout the 2020 Proms season, the
programme celebrates music-making at
summer festivals, with three weeks of
concerts from 2019 from across Europe and
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Choirs. To launch the series, Fiona Talkington
presents the Chinese-American conductor
Xian Zhang making her Proms debut in a
hyper-Romantic 2015 concert featuring two
Russian blockbusters and recent work by
Qigang Chen. Followed by George Benjamin
conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra
in the piece whose 1980 Proms premiere
catapulted him to fame, and film favourites
from a 2011 Prom by the BBC Concert
Orchestra and Keith Lockhart, then their
principal conductor. Prokofiev (Symphony
No 1 in D, Classical Symphony); Qigang Chen
(Iris Dévoiléee — London premiere);
Rachmaninov (Symphony
No 2 in E minor); and George Benjamin
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with the pianist and chamber musician Leif
Ove Andsnes joining the Mahler Chamber
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second and fifth piano concertos, and
Stravinsky’s Octett. Stravinsky (Octettt);
and Beethoven (Piano Concerto No 2
in B flat; and Piano Concerto No 5
in E flat — Emperorr, Op 73) (r) - 00 Proms Lecture
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ello? Is anybody there, or
was it just me and the cat
watching the final episode
of The Luminaries? A
finale that turned out to be
an enigma wrapped in a soggy blanket
inside a gloomy mess. I don’t blame
you if you bailed out weeks ago to do
something simpler, such as nailing
jelly to a moving wall. Overnight the
audience fell from 5.3 million in week
one to 2.2 million last weekend.
Rarely have I watched six hours of
television so determined to make nosense. Ghosts; Lydia bleeding from
the eyes; jumping timelines: it was
a drama that seemed permanently
drunk. Or high on Anna’s opium,
of which we all needed a swig.
There are spoilers ahead in case
you haven’t seen it (my advice
would be: don’t bother).
Eve Hewson and her endlessly
expressive face was the only thing
worth watching here. I hope she got
paid the most. You can tell a drama is
in trouble when it requires a character,
Emery Staines in Rupert the Bear
trousers (Himesh Patel), to stand up in
a court scene for ten — count ’em —
minutes and basically recount the plot.
I have never seen a court witness talk
for so long without interruption in a
drama to spell out what the script
hadn’t adequately showed. And how
did Te Rau manage to get into that
prison van, kill Francis Carver and get
out again without anyone noticing?
Can he walk through walls?
What was the point of letting evil
Lydia Wells (Eva Green) not only
escape punishment, but be rewarded
with a gift of gold from Anna? They
both stood getting their long dresses
wet on the beach while Anna told her
that the irony was that Lydia hadn’t
even needed to steal Anna’s purse to
get her to work for her. Eh?
Emery went off happily to do a
year’s hard labour for crimes he hadn’t
committed, while Anna said she wouldwait for him. What was the point of
it all? If there was anything flickering
in the actors’ eyes it was fear that their
agents would push them towards a
sequel. Just a joke; there won’t be
one. Will there?
At first I thought the voiceover
in Trump in Tweets was someone
impersonating Alec Baldwin
impersonating Donald Trump. Then I
saw that it was actually the Vivienne, a
drag queen and the winner of RuPaul’s
Drag Race, whose Trump mimicry is
rather good. It ensured that there was
a jolly, non-serious tone to this fizzy
romp through the US president’s most
gobsmacking tweets, even though it
isn’t exactly “funny” that the leader
of the free world behaves like a
stroppy teenager on social media.
OK, sometimes it is.
“Covfefe” was funny. And I suppose
calling Kim Jong-un “Little Rocket
Man” was funny-ish if we overlook the
small detail that he was talking about
nuclear weapons at the time.
It is very funny that when the
comedian Bill Maher said that Trump
was the love child of “a human woman
and an orangutan from Brooklyn Zoo”
Trump sued and his lawyers sent
Maher a copy of his birth certificate
confirming that “he is the son of Fred
Trump, not an orangutan”. When
children learn American history in
200 years’ time the mind boggles
Eve Hewson, the only thing worth watching in The Luminaries at what they will think.Er... does anyone know what is going on here?
KIRSTY GRIFFIN/BBCCarol
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