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THE INDEPENDENT TUESDAY 17.AU.GUSr 201G 16 Viewspaper POP Summer Sundae Weekender Gardens, Leicester Simple joys of an intimate festival concerto, and the violas in the sixth interlaced with filigree grace, But then came an organ recital by David Briggs. Why did he play Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in minor deafeningly? Because, with the Royal Albert Hall's monster, he could. Like alittleboy let loose in a Sherman tank, he went on to reduce one of Bach's infinitely subtle orchestral suites to a parade of lump en vulgarity. The grand finale was a series of celebrated arrangements of Bach by Leopold Stokowski, Henry Wood, Percy Grainger, and Respighi, phis two new BBC commissions. Tank O'Eegan's Latent Manifest was a gracefully-controlled meditation on a single Bach phrase, but its connection with the master was so distant as to be out of sight, And since AlissaFirsovahad published a glowing self-review in advance, telling us that her Bach Allegro had "a Paganinian virtuosity and a Haydnesque humour, combined with aFirsovian orchestration'', it only remains for me to report that it came across like a composition-student's contribution to an end-of-term knees-up.

Was this the best the Beeb could come up with? MICHAEL CHURCH CLASSICAL BBC Proms: Bach Day Royal Albert Hall, London If the Proms' Bach Day looked odd on paper, it was even odder in reality; but its centre of gravity was an unusually illuminating performance of the complete Brandenburg Concertos by the English Baroque Soloists directed by John Eliot Gardiner; He likened the hunting horns which play joyful havoc in the first concerto to hooligan gatecrashers, and that's how they came across, but this was just the prelude to a feast of changingmoods, textures, and colours. If the lead violinist Kati Debretzeni was the outright star -infusing the dance movements with crackling energy, delivering a ravishing cadenza in the fourth concerto Rachel Beckett and Catherine Latham made magic with their humble recorders, while Neil Brough was his usual dazzling self in the stratospheric trumpet solos; two oboes plus a bassoon created a wonderful stillness in the first one Of the rainiest weekends of the summer, it is to Summer Sundae's credit that the second stage is indoors. Not that the torrential rain put off the crowds who gathered to see Turin Brakes, The indie pop duo provided one of the most nostalgic sets of the "weekend with songs from their decade-old Optimist album. The perfectly crafted indie-pop of Teenage Panclub, the Glaswegian legends which included their new excellent album Shadows was a wistful favourite, while Mark Smith of the post-punk legends: The Fall was typically uncommunicative with the crowd a mixture of old fans and the Tinchy Stryder performed a confident, hit-heavy set befitting a Saturday night. But it was on Sunday that the sun came out for the best line-up of the weekend, Summer Camp's blissed-out synth-pop andgirl-boy vocals, and The Crookes, four literature graduates from Sheffield, both offered uplifting melodies and marked themselves out as ones to watch.

The folk-rock flavour of the day reflected the chart success of the genre. The Low Anthem's songs were gorgeous and melancholic, and Johnny Flynn and the Sussex Wit, Chain reaction: a hit-heavy set from. Tinchy Stryder MIKE GRALFi watched by their London folk peer Marcus Mumford, were both captivating in the thoughtful poeticism of Flynn's delicate and intricate songwriting and their fiddle-driven barn dances. Mumford and Sons had the biggest crowd of the weekend. The Mercury nominees proved themselves worthy of their first festival headline slot, engaging the iwdinmasssing-alongstotiieir heart-warming and rousing numbers.

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