i mean, that s the plight of any violin. one violin against a bunch of trumpets and trombones. like, if you put those two instruments in herejust now and you got us both to play, the violin would be obliterated. but i think the key for him was to get some sort of advice and guidance on the things to do with the instrument that he was least experienced in. but wynton s loved the violin forever, and he knows a lot about the violin. loves fiddle music, loves the, um.kind of celtic traditions of playing. i mean, knows, to a pretty high degree, music from all over the world and, certainly, the violin s place in the world, so. there are passages in that concerto which draw on scottish folk music, in fact, aren t there? yes, there are.
for you, which was premiered by the london symphony orchestra and then recorded in 2019 by the philadelphia orchestra. how did that composition process work? how involved were you? oh, i was very involved in. ..violinistic things. i maybe suggested a few things. he would say that i sent him pages and pages of suggestions, but they were extremely specific. like, can the flute be changed to pianissimo here? it was almost always to get orchestral musicians to play quieter so that you could hear me. but. you felt you were being drowned out? i m sure you couldn t hear that in the hall. you could hear it? do you remember that specifically? everything you couldn t hear, i marked in the score and said, you cannot hear it . what about that? what was the problem with that, if you had to analyse it? first, you start with the. well, the first problem is that you can t hear me. that s the first problem. i mean, that s the plight of any violin. one violin against a bunch of trumpets and trombones
he would say that i sent him pages and pages of suggestions, but they were extremely specific. like, can the flute be changed to pianissimo here? it was almost always to get orchestral musicians to play quieter so that you could hear me. but. you felt you were being drowned out? i m sure you couldn t hear that in the hall. you could hear it? do you remember that specifically? everything you couldn t hear, i marked in the score and said, you cannot hear it . what about that? what was the problem with that, if you had to analyse it? first, you start with the. well, the first problem is that you can t hear me. that s the first problem. i mean, that s the plight of any violin. one violin against a bunch of trumpets and trombones. like, if you put those two instruments in herejust now and you got us both to play, the violin would be obliterated. but i think the key for him was to get some sort of advice and guidance on the things to do with the instrument that he was least experienced in
one violin against a bunch of trumpets and trombones. like, if you put those two instruments in herejust now and you got us both to play, the violin would be obliterated. but i think the key for him was to get some sort of advice and guidance on the things to do with the instrument that he was least experienced in. but wynton s loved the violin forever, and he knows a lot about the violin. loves fiddle music, loves the, um.kind of celtic traditions of playing. i mean, knows, to a pretty high degree, music from all over the world and, certainly, the violin s place in the world, so. there are passages in that concerto which draw on scottish folk music, in fact, aren t there? yes, there are.
again, another element i want to show you which is north of the city and that is where military vehicles were filmed on the highway and this is one video here. you can see some of them coming through here because they have been questions raised aboutjust how big this convey was. it speaks to mid size. we can see herejust in a moment, some tanks coming through. the video is on the pier so you will be able to see it again at the moment but certainly no satellite images emerge so far convoy coming through. look, you can see the tank here and people already on top. in terms of what we can say about yesterday, we know it was a bewildering 24 hours foot of events happening at breakneck speed. we have been able to verify some fragments, some small elements but really, in terms of the bigger picture, it remains extremely confused and what exactly happened yesterday, gareth, is very difficult to piece together in any meaningful way. to piece together in any meaningful way. i m joined by hanna l