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APPLAUSE Good evening, everybody, a very

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warm welcome. Tonight at the props, two musical giants go head to head,

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both sensational violinists, both of them mavericks. One was famed

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for his addiction for coffee, his preponderous for alcohol, arrested

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for fighting in the street with a bassoonist. The other has a spikey

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haircut and uncompromising opinions, one composer, one performer. Ladies

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and gentlemen, playing the work of Wow. Well, good evening, ladies and

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gentlemen. Good evening. That's more like it. Listen. It's not late,

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but we're just letting a few more people get in. Listen. It's

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wonderful to see all of these cats here in this amazing auditorium.

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It's a bit of a lonely job, this one, playing Bach in a solitary

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manner, so I've got the ghosts of a few musicians around me just to,

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like, make a little placebo effect. So anyway, I'm going to start with

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this Preludium, which just for anyone who might not have heard it

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before - I know all of you cats is, like, the most knowledgeable in the

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world! But, you know, one or two might not have heard this most

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amazing thing about it - is this line of notes with the complete

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 266 seconds

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Thank you, by the way. LAUGHTER

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Um, so this next sonata in its entirety is a killer concentration

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- let's put it that way, and just as much for you as it is for me, so

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good luck, people. LAUGHTER

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 266 seconds

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Thank you very much indeed. Man, I need a beer!

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LAUGHTER Been off the alcohol at least a

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week for this. But I think, you know, I've got a theory about Bach

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which many other people have had before, which is that Bach can

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swing, you know - I mean, you know, these D minor artists are pretty

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serious, and we have just got through that together, and not

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really trying to swing in that one, but it's nice - some people put a

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bit of a beat in there, and these instruments are not just for show.

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There's going to be some noise coming out of these things, and I'd

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like to introduce to you, like, some amazing musicians who are

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going to help do a little bit of something to Bach, right?

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LAUGHTER So this guitar - this beautiful

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Maccaferri, I think should be played by a great friend of mine

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from Frankfurt, the beautiful country of Germany, one of my

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favourite countries, a fantastic place - a shame about the football,

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but English is even worse, yeah. Rolf Bassald, please.

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That's it. Pretty good applause considering

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you've played nothing yet. LAUGHTER

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You better be good, mate. Don't be nervous.

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And on contrabass, someone suitable for the size of the ininstrument

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and a fantastic musician, from Palestine stroke Israel, a

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fantastic player, Yaron Stavi. And then lovely to see you, mate.

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You are big enough for that instrument, man.

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LAUGHTER You know, it's fantastic having

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someone in the dressing room who can actually eat the rider! Anyway,

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so last but not least one of the social experiments in my band -

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LAUGHTER As a young kid, when he was going

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to kindergarten or the equivalent of such in Poland, he started

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beating the other kids physically, and the authorities, which had some

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say in people's lives in those days, kind of said, "Listen -" to his

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mother, this is - they said to the mother, Mrs Dziedzic, please can

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you buy your kid some drums so he can hit those and not the children?

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Right? And this has been an amazing success, so I would like to

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introduce to you Krzysztof "Still Out of Prison2 Dziedzic -- prison"

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Hey has been rationed to one drum, so I hope this does not lead to a

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fight in a phone box later, but, like, Krzysztof, how are you

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feeling? Great, thank you. Thank God for that. So anyway - yeah,

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let's keep him happy, I mean, whatever it takes, like. So we're

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going to play a song called Das Pendel, which is German for The

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 266 seconds

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Pendulum because it's based on Bach, Thank you very much indeed, ladies

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and gentlemen. Rolf Bassald, guitar. APPLAUSE

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Any Polish people in the audience? APPLAUSE

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OK. Well, I want to say something to Rolf - masz piekne wlosy. It

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means he's got lovely hair! He washed it for you guys, you know?

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Yaron Stavi on contrabass. (Speaking in Polish)

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APPLAUSE And, of course, Krzysztof "Still

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Out of Prison" Dziedzic - so man, I'd like to move into another

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dimension, if that's all right, so, like, same time of merits to the

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composer we're going to play next, a fantastic harmonic master, a

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phenomenal melodist and some rhythm in it as well. This guy's called

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Fats Waller, and we'd like to do one called How Can You Face Me Now?,

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which basically goes like this - # How can you face me

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# After what I've gone through # All on account of you

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# How can you face me now? # That's why I'm not going to do the

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melody or, like, singing it, OK? LAUGHTER

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# Yes # Yes! #

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One more for the road? AUDIENCE: Yeah!

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Sorry? Two more? No, that's too much, man. We don't know no more

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than this, and I've got through the whole night without swearing, and

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that's, like, taking some! This is a moor well-known song by the same

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composer. He went out and bought some flowers one time to try and

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make his girlfriend sweet. This one's called Honeysuckle Rose.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Yeah! Yeah, try the intro out, man.

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 266 seconds

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That would be pretty cool. One, A rather unexpected double bill,

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but then what would you expect of Kennedy but the unexpected Fats

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Waller paired with the music of JS Bach? Well, this is our last

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broadcast on BBC Four this season, but wrapping up the whole she bang

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