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A selection of music and features
1 2.00 Composer of the Week:
Pachelbel (1653-1706)
In today’s episode Donald Macleod explores
how the composer expressed in music his
deep grief at the loss of his first wife and
infant son in his unique collection “Musical
Thoughts on Death”. Plus, as he continues
his journey through the diverse
arrangements of the famous Canon — there’s
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“Madchester” dance music, and American
West Coast hip-hop. Pachelbel (Altogether
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sharp minor); and Pachelbel/Ivey Jr/
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(C U When U Get Theree) (r)1 .00pm Live Radhdio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Live from Wigmore Hall, London, the
mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly and the
pianist Malcolm Martineau perform songs by
Mahler, Poulenc, Roussel, Frank Bridge and
Bob Chilcott. Introduced by Andrew
McGregor. Poulenc (Banalitéss); Roussel
(Le jardin mouillééé;Nuit d’automnee; and
Le bachelier de Salamanquee); Mahler (From
Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Verlorne Mühh;
Rheinlegendchenn; Das irdische Lebenn; Wo die
schönen Trompeten blasenn; and Urlichttt);
Bridge (Day after dayy; and Speak to me, my
lovee); and Bob Chilcott (Cloud Languagee; and
Cloud Riverr — from Cloud Picturess).
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2. 00 Afternoon Concert
Emmanuelle Haïm conducts the Berlin
Philharmonic Orchestra in music by Purcell
and Handel, in a concert given in the
Philharmonie, Berlin, in October 2019.
Purcell (Suite from The Fairy Queenn, Z. 629);
and Handel (Music for the Royal Fireworks
in D, HWV 351; and La terra è liberata —
Apollo e Dafnee, HWV 122)
3 .30 Choral Evensong
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University of London. Introit: Lighten our
darkness (Ben Parry). Responses: Ben Parry.
Psalms 82, 84 , 85 (Noble, Carter, Buck). First
Lesson: Wisdom 3 vv.1-9. Office hymn: Hail,
gladdening light (Sebaste). Canticles:
Evening Service in G (Ben Parry). Second
Lesson: Mark 1 0 vv.1 7 -31. Anthem: Live
forever glorious Lord (Dyson). Hymn: Christ
the way of life (East Street). Voluntary:
Pièce héroïque (Franck). Rupert Gough
(Director of Music), Luke Saint (Organist)
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Two memorable concerts from the BBC’s
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Mozart (Serenade in Bb K361 — Gran
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Messiaen (Éclairs sur l’Au-Delààà) (r)
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How particular objects help tell the story of
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British mezzo-soprano
Sarah Connolly, above, in an
hour-long song recital with
pianist Malcolm Martineau.
The selection includes
Mahler’s Des Knaben
Wunderhorn, his 1890s
settings of German folk
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century come songs by the
French composers Poulenc
and Roussel and their
English counterpart Frank
Bridge. Connolly performs
Cloud Language and Cloud
River (from Cloud Pictures)
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{{{{(O
sea Island, off the Essex
coast, is billed on its
website as “an idyllic haven
of peace and tranquillity
basking serenely on the
Blackwater Estuary”. That may be true
in reality, but that’s never how a film-
maker would see it. To them, such an
island is a place where there will be
pagan rituals and affably homicidal
locals, and if you wandered on to it
you would be unable to escape
without falling foul of the odd human
sacrifice. In other words, The Wicker
Man continues to loom large.
Just watch The Third Day, this
season’s most extraordinary mysteryseries, so ambitious that it will be split
in half by a live “coming-of-age ritual”
on the island, put on by the theatrical
innovators Punchdrunk. So far,
Jude Law’s protagonist, Sam — the
everyman who starts to realise that
he is trapped — is finding the locals
weirdly friendly, drunkenly suspicious
or downright terrifying.
Sam was perturbed enough even
before he crossed over the causeway
and started finding mutilated creatures
and experiencing visitations from his
dead son. But this is the kind of head
trip where you start to question
everything, including whether it’s the
island that’s off its rocker or Sam.
Or perhaps the series itself. We met
Sam visiting a river, privately grieving
the death of his child in between
frantic calls to his wife about a missing
£40,000 and saving a scared young
woman from hanging herself. That’s
a lot to pack into the opening six
minutes. And, as with Billie Piper’s
giant head in I Hate Suzie, this had
many woozy close-ups of Law’s, filling
your living room’s flat-screen.
Yet as soon as Sam set foot on the
island, the constant hints of danger
seemed to almost physically hold your
gaze. As in every horror movie, we
quickly found out that the phones
were down (the constant reminders
becoming almost parodic). As for the
islanders, it was hard to know who was
the most sinister — the suicidal girl’sdad (Mark Lewis Jones), smashing
things with alarming fury, or the oddly
helpful pub owners played by Emily
Watson and Paddy Considine.
Watson was like a surly cat, while
Considine, as her browbeaten
husband, was amusingly peculiar,
all toothy smiles, the kind of overly
friendly stranger you instinctively don’t
trust. Why, Sam reasonably wondered,
do they have a ritualistic circle of salt
on the floor of their guest bathroom?
The collaborative team of Dennis
Kelly, the writer, Marc Munden, the
director, and Cristobal Tapia de Veer,
the composer, have form in intense
paranoia with their previous series,
Utopia. Here, this was initially fed
through a summery beauty (the
birdsong, the glinting causeway), the
idyllic soon giving way to the eerie
landscapes on Osea, almost its
own character ready for the live
performance to come. Who knows
how that will play out — perhaps it
will feature Sam’s head on a maypole
— but if it works it will make a series
about a cult into its own cult concern.
For this folk-horror puzzler is like
watching a video game being played
out. There is no dramatic irony; you
are finding out whatever awfulness is
round the corner at the same time as
the patsy of a hero. The nightmare will
spiral into gripping madness even as
you wonder if you’re being fed TV’s
In The Third Day Sam (Jude Law) arrives on a mysterious island most ambitious shaggy dog story yet.This folk-horror puzzler is a Law unto itself
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