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Lully (1632-1687)
Donald Macleod unpacks the relationship
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Plaisirs d’ile enchantee, WV 22 —
Divertisment No 5; Les Talens Lyrique; Le
Carrousel De Monseigneur, LWV 72 —
Marches Militaires; La Princesse d’Elide, LWV
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pianist Charles Owen, performing music by
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Mark’s Church of Ireland and presented by
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Shostakovich (Quartet No 3 in F, Op 73) (r)
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conductor Bernard Haitink leads the Berlin
Philharmonic in symphonies by two
composers close to his heart.
Like Mahler, the symphonies of
Shostakovich were a mainstay of Haitink’s
repertoire and his performance of the epic
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believes it has provided a form of social
service to subsistence communities. But in
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Radio 3, 2pm
This week’s Afternoon
Concert series celebrates
Beethoven concertos, with
a different one each day.
Today’s is his Violin
Concerto, a piece written
in 1806 that languished in
semi-obscurity until it was
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death to become one of
his most treasured works.
It is performed by the
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Tobias Feldmann, above,
with the BBC Scottish
Symphony Orchestra, who
also perform music by
Robert Schumann and the
Scottish composer Thea
Musgrave. Also on the
programme is music by
Berg from the Bavarian
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Y
ou don’t expect a TV drama
like The Bay to deliver a
horror flick opening, but —
fair play — it did. The
opening to series three
offered faint vibes of Jaws and Friday
the 13th. I assumed that one of the two
women swimming in the Morecambe
sea would be dragged under, especially
when her leg got caught in rope
wrapped around a buoy. But no.
Instead, up popped the battered head
of a dead body, like Jason rising from
the lake. You couldn’t not watch on
after that.
I expected it to be a paler version of
the previous series now that its lead,
Morven Christie, has left and been
replaced with Marsha Thomason
playing DS Jenn Townsend, the new
police family liaison officer (or “Flo”,
as they refer to themselves, which
always makes me think of
menstruation, sorry).
It’s hard for dramas to rejuvenate
when the main event has moved on
(I am wondering how Unforgotten
can possibly pack the same punch
without Nicola Walker, but I’m
willing it on), but it’s fair to say
that I didn’t miss Christie much
at all. Thomason quickly established
herself as solid and convincing in
the role, not trying too hard but
a dependable presence.
I liked the mostly friendly but
slightly passive-aggressive relationship
she has with her colleague DS Karen
Hobson (Erin Shanagher), who
told Jenn, in a shot across her bows,
that her predecessor (played by
Christie) was “shit hot” at her job.
At least both seem in agreement
that their male colleague “Clarkey”
(Andrew Dowbiggin), who seems
to be a racist and sexist copper,
is a “prick”.
The story is intriguing too, a young
Muslim man and talented boxer
apparently beaten to death with
a baseball bat and dumped in the sea
at Morecambe Bay. His family were
strangely tense with each other, and
his elder brother Adnan (MichaelKarim) was prickly and aggressive and
had a criminal record (which almost
certainly means he’s innocent, under
TV drama law).
The Bay has often been described as
the “northern Broadchurch”, but I’ve
never thought it was as compelling
as that; it seemed like just another
generic cop show, with coastal scenery
and an awful lot of dourness thrown
in, to earn it the term “gritty”. But
I was more taken with this plot than
previous ones.
It was a strong performance by
Rina Mahoney as Saif’s grieving
mother, turning to the vodka as she
said she “couldn’t have asked for a
better son”. This is the sort of phrase
that usually guarantees skeletons will
soon be toppling from cupboards.
The other mystery is that the
victim’s younger brother Jamal is
supposed to be in the sixth form at
school but looks about 35. Could the
police look into that? Anyway, the
question mark that had been hanging
over The Bay — would it survive the
departure of its main star? — seems
at this stage to be yes. Taggart and
Silent Witness survived it, so why
can’t this?
I was never mad on this drama to
be honest, but this was a well-written
episode and Thomason has made a
strong start. How many viewers will
last the full six episodes remains to
be seen.New officer makes a fine start on the Bay beat
BEN BLACKALLCarol
Midgley
TV review
The Bay
ITV
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Marsha Thomason takes the lead in series three of drama The Bay