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Suzy Klein presents another performance
by the pianist Murray Perahia
1 2.00 Composer of the Week:
George Benjamin
The British composer George Benjamin talks
to Donald Macleod about the importance of
seeking out the right people with whom to
collaborate. George Benjamin (Three
Inventions for Chamber Orchestraa;
Shadowliness;Not When You Grip My Neck
— Lessons in Love and Violencee;
and Duet for Piano and Orchestraa)
1 .00pm Live Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
The Presteigne Festival, at St David’s Hall in
Cardiff. The pianist Clare Hammond
performs. Boulanger (Trois Morceauxx);
Robert Peate (Pearlll); Rachmaninov (Sonata
No 2 — revised version, 1931); Edmund
Finnis (Youth); Wild (Three Virtuoso
Etudes after Gershwin Nos 4 and 6,
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Georgia Mann presents a concert in which
the BBC Concert Orchestra and the tenor
Alessandro Fisher, under the conductor
Anna-Maria Helsing, perform at the Watford
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and wonderlands. Shirley Thompson
(Wildfiree); Finzi (Farewell to Armss, Op 9);
Jocelyn Pook (Wonderlanddd); Rautavaara
(Lintukotoo — Isle of Blisss); Finzi (Two
Sonnetss, Op 12); and McCabe (Suite — The
Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobee)
4 .30 The Listening Service
Tom Service talks to composers Sir Harrison
Birtwistle and Shiva Feshareki about their
creative process to gain an insight into the
birth of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphonyy (r)
5. 00 In Tune
Sean Rafferty is joined by the cellist Yo-Yo
Ma and the pianist Kathryn Stott to talk
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7 .30 Radio 3 in Concert
Last month, as the pandemic played havoc
with venues’ plans up and down the country,
the BBC’s Maida Vale Studio 1 played host to
the Halifax Philharmonic Club and one of
today’s most exciting chamber ensembles.
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective was
founded in 2017 but the international group
has quickly gained a reputation for its fresh
approach to programming and memorable
performances. Introduced by Linton
Stephens. Schubert (Notturno in E flat,
D897); Handel (Süße Stille,sanfte Quellee);
Hahn arr Tom Poster (À Chloriss; Quand je fus
pris au pavillonn;L’énamouréee; and La
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10.45 The Essay: Secret Admirers
Jess Gillam celebrates the composer whose
music unexpectedly helped her though
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To mark Beethoven’s 250th birthday, the BBC
is asking listeners to remix a new recording
of his Symphony No 5, as well as
commissioning influential and acclaimed
musicians to do the same. Late Junctionnn’s
remix is by Jlin the Innovator, one of
electronic music’s most exciting players.
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Jo Bisso from a recent compilation of his
dancefloor fillers from the ’70s.
Presented by Verity Sharp
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11.00 The Power of Three
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BBC World Service, 8.30pmThe distances are so huge,
the mind boggles. Our
nearest star is Alpha
Centauri, above, but it’s
more than four light years
from Earth, and even in our
fastest spaceships it would
take tens of thousands of
years to get there. But is it
possible to vastly accelerate
the speed of a spacecraft
to enable human beings to
travel to another star
system? And how far can
we push the limits of physics
and human technology?
Anand Jagatia speaks with
the engineers developing
ion drives for satellites and
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thetimes.co.uk/bulletinsS
orry to lord it over you, but
Tin Star is back and some
of it was filmed at the end
of my garden. Yes, I may have
mentioned that before. But
have you ever looked out of your
kitchen window and seen Tim Roth
sitting on the back wall? Thought not.
It was the most exciting thing to
happen to me all year.
Anyway, the series has left Canada
and come to Liverpool for its finale
and is ten times better for it (although
I’m biased, what with living hereand recognising all the locations like
an excited child).
All that Canadian noir was starting
to bore me. I gave up on series two
because, as I said at the time, it was
so off its head that watching it was
like urinary tract infection-induced
delirium. And it is still off its head,
but it seems to have been injected
with new energy, spiky northern wit
and a lean, lively script. Before I knew
it I had watched all six episodes.
It might not be everyone’s bag
and the plot is utterly preposterous
— Jack (Roth), Angela (Genevieve
O’Reilly) and Anna (Abigail Lawrie)
coolly strolling around Liverpool
brazenly killing enemies in between
cocktails and karaoke bars. Jack is
much better value when he’s drinking
(I doubt AA will be quoting me on
that) and there is great chemistry
between the three main characters,
even though they have more lives than
the combined incumbents at Battersea
Cats’ Home. Spoilers ahead...
There are Tarantino-ish flourishes,
especially the gory violence, and good
turns from Ian Hart as a crime boss
and Tanya Moodie as chief constable
of Merseyside police. The bit when
Jack and Angela were getting married
while holding their priest at gunpoint,
then shot him in the face saying “oops”
was very Pulp Fiction. After Jack had
run rings round a detective, leaving
her handcuffed to a pub table, and acolleague ridiculed her she called him
“Merseyside’s prize baldy f***ing
goblin”. This is exactly what a Scouse
woman might say, so bravo for that.
I scrolled through to see if my
garden trellis had made it into shot,
something I planned to bore about for
weeks. It hadn’t. But there was Roth
atop the dividing wall for all of three
and a half seconds. Fame! Oh, and the
best series so far (I would say that).
New Elizabethans with Andrew
Marr often feels as random in its
selections as a contestant lobbing tins
in their trolley on Supermarket Sweep.
Nobody sane could argue with David
Attenborough as an iconic figure of
the age, but I wouldn’t have included
the cookery writer Elizabeth David
(although it did facilitate a trip to
Capri, where Marr ate an ice cream)
or the joint ticket of Enoch Powell
and Tony Benn (anti-EU portents).
However, even if you don’t agree
with the choices you can enjoy the
springy, artful way this has been put
together, with great clips and excellent
music. (Candidate by David Bowie
was in there, but where was Bowie
himself ?) We were reminded of the
Greenham Common women (Marr
didn’t feel a trip to Berkshire was
needed), Live Aid, Colin “Mad Mitch”
Mitchell and Lord Mountbatten. But
as with all listy programmes, you dwell
on the ones that weren’t there as
much as the ones that were.A gory crime caper laced with spiky Scouse wit
COLIN HUTTON/SKYCarol
Midgley
TV review
New Elizabethans
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