Worth a look, these programmes. If only for the little cameo appearance from David Owen Norris who each week analyses a single chord - is this first one, the 'big' chord from Rite of Spring. Always fun and informative.
Some interesting other comments - esp. from Semyon Bychkov stressing how carefully the concert programmes are constructed... BBC TV CONCERT PRODUCERS TAKE NOTE FOR GOODNESS' SAKE!!
(Final bugbear - I can't watch Ms Derham. Even when she starts a sentence sensibly, one dreads the inevitable crinkling of her face into a saccharine, unnatural grimace of a grin at some point And why does she say 'Sir Antonio Pappano' with a dreadful cod-Italian accent?!? She doesn't do the same with 'Valery Gergiev' in an attempted Russian accent, for instance. And Tony Pappano's from Essex!!! Just say it in English!!
And... breathe... calm.... )
Some interesting other comments - esp. from Semyon Bychkov stressing how carefully the concert programmes are constructed... BBC TV CONCERT PRODUCERS TAKE NOTE FOR GOODNESS' SAKE!!
(Final bugbear - I can't watch Ms Derham. Even when she starts a sentence sensibly, one dreads the inevitable crinkling of her face into a saccharine, unnatural grimace of a grin at some point And why does she say 'Sir Antonio Pappano' with a dreadful cod-Italian accent?!? She doesn't do the same with 'Valery Gergiev' in an attempted Russian accent, for instance. And Tony Pappano's from Essex!!! Just say it in English!!
And... breathe... calm.... )
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