Stradivarius and Me - BBC4 Sunday

[ardcarp]

For someone who claimed to have 'given up' the violin as a teenager, Clemency played a bit of the Bach Double (with Jennifer Pike) rather well. Otherwise the programme...maybe appropriately on RIII day...was largely a question of watching CBH venerate holy relics. In fact I was going to say having mult....oh, I'd better stop.

[Richard Tarleton]

For someone who claimed to have 'given up' the violin as a teenager, Clemency played a bit of the Bach Double (with Jennifer Pike) rather well. Otherwise the programme...maybe appropriately on RIII day...was largely a question of watching CBH venerate holy relics. In fact I was going to say having mult....oh, I'd better stop.

Saw that when it was first on - not a bad programme, worth a watch for Ms Pike in action. Clemency did sit in briefly with the West-Eastern Divan a few years ago, I think she was interviewing DB at the time, so has evidently kept in practice, being overly modest I expect ....

Still on Strads, there was a programme on Radio 4 late last year about the bizarre theft of the Lipinski Strad from the concert master of the Milwaukee SO - he was attacked with a stun gun after a concert - here's a bit about the trial

And OT - I don't suppose she plays a Strad, but I was touched to see in the Sunday Times yesterday that the LSO are keeping Louise Shackleton's aka Mrs David Miliband's seat warm for her in case they return , so I hope she's doing her scales.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I missed the programme first time around, so was pleased to watch it now.

CB-H is a truly fine violinist - a pity she let it drop.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

(But I do wish she could pronounce both short and long "oo" sounds.)

[ardcarp]

a pity she let it drop.

What? The Strad?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

What? The Strad?

I wished she'd dropped the yucky and completely inappropriate song covering the end credits.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

ahem, it was dire ... Strad porn .... why no history of who owned and played the kit? .... why no current owners telling us what they thought of it? .... why no blind testing to see if the difference can be identified? &c ...

really cheap Home & Garden telly ... and an absolute misuse of license fees ... if that was all they had to say, why not a straight performance of the Bach pieces? this was GCSE Lite at best ... 'Secret Knowledge' piffle!

[Barbirollians]

CBH won the Hugh Bean Prize at the RCM so she was rather a better violinist than her throwaway remark suggested !

[Richard Tarleton]

ahem, it was dire ... Strad porn ...
really cheap Home & Garden telly ...

I dunno, here's us trying to be nice about Clemmy for a change...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I dunno, here's us trying to be nice about Clemmy for a change...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

I dunno, here's us trying to be nice about Clemmy for a change...

In a series of authored films, some of our most engaging experts reveal their favourite hidden objects, forgotten places and artistic passions.

Presenter Clemency Burton-Hill
Director Katy Homan
Executive Producer Pauline Law
Executive Producer Richard Bright
Producer Katy Homan

well looks to me that she is the 'author' of this episode of an 'authored' series .... whatever that means .....

[Boilk]

Have we really got to the stage, on BBC Four no less, when colloquial English takes precedence over its correct usage?

"Stradivarius and I" surely?

Mind you Clemency B-H was sounding off last year about "classical music for all" and how it should not be "elitist".
Perhaps this is how the BBC makes classical music more accessible?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Have we really got to the stage, on BBC Four no less, when colloquial English takes precedence over its correct usage?

"Stradivarius and I" surely?

Not unless Ms Burton-Hill were claiming that she and Signor Stradavari did something together. ("Stradivarius and I went down to the shops for a bun.") - as the programme is about her response to the work of Signor Stradivari (or, more accurately, the effect his instruments have had on her life), her use of English Grammar here is impeccable.


And don't call me Shirley.