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| | | | | Sport Update | Roger Baird feared his Lions cap had been consigned to dustbin | It is almost 35 years since Roger Baird pulled on the famous red jersey of the British and Irish Lions so, after missing the postman, he was more than willing to wait a few more days to get his hands on the ceremonial cap to recognise his achievement. |
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| And finally... | | Music review: BBC SSO & Thomas Dausgaard, City Halls, Glasgow | Kullervo may not be the most refined and musically cohesive of Sibeliusâ large-scale works, but this enormous five-movement choral symphony, based on an epic Finnish poem, remains a fascinating, embryonic insight into the spiritual and technical seeds of what was become the composerâs signature style. Conductor Thomas Dausgaard chose it as the focus of his final programme this season with the BBC SSO, and in a performance populated also by the Lund Male Choir of Sweden and soloists Helena Juntunen and Benjamin Appl, and featuring an ultimately inconsequential preamble of linked music by Finnish folk musicians, he captured enough of the musicâs heroic impact, stylistic adventurousness and violent emotions to justify his bold decision. |
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