Nigel Kennedy Plays Bach

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:00:49. > :00:56.APPLAUSE Good evening, everybody, a very

:00:56. > :01:00.warm welcome. Tonight at the props, two musical giants go head to head,

:01:00. > :01:07.both sensational violinists, both of them mavericks. One was famed

:01:07. > :01:14.for his addiction for coffee, his preponderous for alcohol, arrested

:01:15. > :01:19.for fighting in the street with a bassoonist. The other has a spikey

:01:19. > :01:29.haircut and uncompromising opinions, one composer, one performer. Ladies

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:01:44. > :01:51.and gentlemen, playing the work of Wow. Well, good evening, ladies and

:01:51. > :01:55.gentlemen. Good evening. That's more like it. Listen. It's not late,

:01:56. > :02:00.but we're just letting a few more people get in. Listen. It's

:02:00. > :02:06.wonderful to see all of these cats here in this amazing auditorium.

:02:07. > :02:12.It's a bit of a lonely job, this one, playing Bach in a solitary

:02:12. > :02:16.manner, so I've got the ghosts of a few musicians around me just to,

:02:16. > :02:19.like, make a little placebo effect. So anyway, I'm going to start with

:02:19. > :02:23.this Preludium, which just for anyone who might not have heard it

:02:23. > :02:27.before - I know all of you cats is, like, the most knowledgeable in the

:02:27. > :02:33.world! But, you know, one or two might not have heard this most

:02:33. > :02:43.amazing thing about it - is this line of notes with the complete

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:02:43. > :07:09.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 266 seconds

:07:09. > :07:18.Thank you, by the way. LAUGHTER

:07:18. > :07:23.Um, so this next sonata in its entirety is a killer concentration

:07:23. > :07:25.- let's put it that way, and just as much for you as it is for me, so

:07:25. > :07:35.good luck, people. LAUGHTER

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:42:54. > :43:01.Thank you very much indeed. Man, I need a beer!

:43:01. > :43:06.LAUGHTER Been off the alcohol at least a

:43:06. > :43:14.week for this. But I think, you know, I've got a theory about Bach

:43:14. > :43:20.which many other people have had before, which is that Bach can

:43:20. > :43:22.swing, you know - I mean, you know, these D minor artists are pretty

:43:22. > :43:27.serious, and we have just got through that together, and not

:43:27. > :43:32.really trying to swing in that one, but it's nice - some people put a

:43:32. > :43:35.bit of a beat in there, and these instruments are not just for show.

:43:35. > :43:40.There's going to be some noise coming out of these things, and I'd

:43:40. > :43:42.like to introduce to you, like, some amazing musicians who are

:43:43. > :43:48.going to help do a little bit of something to Bach, right?

:43:48. > :43:53.LAUGHTER So this guitar - this beautiful

:43:53. > :43:56.Maccaferri, I think should be played by a great friend of mine

:43:56. > :43:59.from Frankfurt, the beautiful country of Germany, one of my

:43:59. > :44:05.favourite countries, a fantastic place - a shame about the football,

:44:05. > :44:15.but English is even worse, yeah. Rolf Bassald, please.

:44:15. > :44:25.

:44:25. > :44:30.That's it. Pretty good applause considering

:44:30. > :44:36.you've played nothing yet. LAUGHTER

:44:36. > :44:42.You better be good, mate. Don't be nervous.

:44:42. > :44:52.And on contrabass, someone suitable for the size of the ininstrument

:44:52. > :45:02.and a fantastic musician, from Palestine stroke Israel, a

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:45:15. > :45:18.fantastic player, Yaron Stavi. And then lovely to see you, mate.

:45:18. > :45:21.You are big enough for that instrument, man.

:45:21. > :45:29.LAUGHTER You know, it's fantastic having

:45:29. > :45:34.someone in the dressing room who can actually eat the rider! Anyway,

:45:34. > :45:41.so last but not least one of the social experiments in my band -

:45:41. > :45:45.LAUGHTER As a young kid, when he was going

:45:45. > :45:51.to kindergarten or the equivalent of such in Poland, he started

:45:51. > :46:01.beating the other kids physically, and the authorities, which had some

:46:01. > :46:06.say in people's lives in those days, kind of said, "Listen -" to his

:46:06. > :46:11.mother, this is - they said to the mother, Mrs Dziedzic, please can

:46:11. > :46:18.you buy your kid some drums so he can hit those and not the children?

:46:18. > :46:27.Right? And this has been an amazing success, so I would like to

:46:27. > :46:37.introduce to you Krzysztof "Still Out of Prison2 Dziedzic -- prison"

:46:37. > :46:46.

:46:46. > :46:51.Hey has been rationed to one drum, so I hope this does not lead to a

:46:51. > :46:58.fight in a phone box later, but, like, Krzysztof, how are you

:46:58. > :47:02.feeling? Great, thank you. Thank God for that. So anyway - yeah,

:47:02. > :47:08.let's keep him happy, I mean, whatever it takes, like. So we're

:47:08. > :47:18.going to play a song called Das Pendel, which is German for The

:47:18. > :47:18.

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:55:41. > :55:51.Pendulum because it's based on Bach, Thank you very much indeed, ladies

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:55:54. > :55:56.and gentlemen. Rolf Bassald, guitar. APPLAUSE

:55:56. > :56:05.Any Polish people in the audience? APPLAUSE

:56:05. > :56:14.OK. Well, I want to say something to Rolf - masz piekne wlosy. It

:56:14. > :56:24.means he's got lovely hair! He washed it for you guys, you know?

:56:24. > :56:34.

:56:34. > :56:44.Yaron Stavi on contrabass. (Speaking in Polish)

:56:44. > :56:47.

:56:47. > :56:53.APPLAUSE And, of course, Krzysztof "Still

:56:53. > :57:00.Out of Prison" Dziedzic - so man, I'd like to move into another

:57:00. > :57:07.dimension, if that's all right, so, like, same time of merits to the

:57:07. > :57:13.composer we're going to play next, a fantastic harmonic master, a

:57:13. > :57:18.phenomenal melodist and some rhythm in it as well. This guy's called

:57:18. > :57:22.Fats Waller, and we'd like to do one called How Can You Face Me Now?,

:57:22. > :57:30.which basically goes like this - # How can you face me

:57:30. > :57:35.# After what I've gone through # All on account of you

:57:35. > :57:39.# How can you face me now? # That's why I'm not going to do the

:57:39. > :57:49.melody or, like, singing it, OK? LAUGHTER

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:03:36. > :03:46.# Yes # Yes! #

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:04:08. > :04:12.One more for the road? AUDIENCE: Yeah!

:04:12. > :04:16.Sorry? Two more? No, that's too much, man. We don't know no more

:04:16. > :04:21.than this, and I've got through the whole night without swearing, and

:04:21. > :04:26.that's, like, taking some! This is a moor well-known song by the same

:04:26. > :04:31.composer. He went out and bought some flowers one time to try and

:04:31. > :04:41.make his girlfriend sweet. This one's called Honeysuckle Rose.

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:09:56. > :10:06.CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Yeah! Yeah, try the intro out, man.

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:15:36. > :15:40.That would be pretty cool. One, A rather unexpected double bill,

:15:40. > :15:44.but then what would you expect of Kennedy but the unexpected Fats

:15:44. > :15:48.Waller paired with the music of JS Bach? Well, this is our last

:15:48. > :15:55.broadcast on BBC Four this season, but wrapping up the whole she bang