Somewhere in New Zealand, a nation apparently inhabited by less than a dozen people, Lucinda and Rob run a dairy farm. So lonely is Rob that he knows all 175 of his cows by their names or numbers ("Good morning, 47!"). So carnal is Lucinda that she surprises Rob at strange times and places with sudden, bold invitations to make love. So besotted is Rob that he produces a wedding ring and proposes. So fearful is Lucinda that she seeks advice to be sure that Rob really loves her. So realistic am I that I'm thinking he'd better, since there is so far no other man in the movie.
Kaleidoscope’s young blood is a little too cool, plus the best of March’s classical concerts
3/5
The chamber group’s all-French programme at Wigmore Hall was frequently beautiful and tender, but lacked a little trouble and turmoil
30 March 2021 • 3:11pm
Kaleidoscope offered a concert of little-heard French music from Wigmore Hall
Credit: PA
While other venues sputter like damp fireworks, Wigmore Hall keeps going, bringing us top-level music-making day after day. Sometimes they even offer two concerts in a single day, which was normal back in “normal” times, but now seems like almost reckless profusion.
Yesterday was one such cornucopia. In the evening, tenor Ian Bostridge and pianist Julius Drake performed Schubert, Debussy and Fauré; but first, at lunchtime, we heard four members of the recently formed chamber group Kaleidoscope, now an “associate ensemble” of the hall. They offered an all-French programme that reversed the normal order of a menu, going from