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...Most important, Strauss’s music offered a generous embrace of emotion missing elsewhere....
...There have been certain figures in the past — Mahler, Strauss and Britten immediately come to mind — who had a remarkable gift, but that is not necessarily an automatic right....
...column: Encourage whistleblowers to take the right steps — without financial rewards / From Peter Wright, London, UK The UK regulator has to prove it is serious about protecting whistleblowers / From Sir Gerald...
...Richard Strauss left us surprisingly classical recordings of Mozart and Beethoven. Britten’s performances of Bach and Mozart strove for clarity of sound....
...No one knew if growth would be sustained enough to make it work,” says budget minister Gérald Darmanin, who was also in attendance. “But the president was right....
...Less satisfying is Van Dantzig’s Vier Letzte Lieder to Richard Strauss’s songs....
...One of the biggest influences on that advance was English pianist Gerald Moore, whom Vignoles calls a “kind of mentor”....
...In a couple of months’ time Gerald Finley will be climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in aid of charity....
...Gerald Diffey, the dapper Englishman behind Brooks, the highly successful restaurant in Melbourne, Australia, returned to London recently to take his friends and family to discover the city’s latest restaurants...
...Set to Strauss’s infectious Frühlingstimmen walzer, Voices of Spring is a crowd-pleaser ending in a running “bum lift” exit, with the ballerina sitting aloft on her partner’s hand....
...All praise to Cologne Philharmonie for daring to present something more substantial than Strauss waltzes between Christmas and New Year. www.koelner-philharmonie.de...
...Lumbye, the “Strauss of the north”, this is a finely judged tribute to the company and Kobborg’s own past that also assimilates influences far from Denmark....
...Vartkess Knadjian, managing director of diamond specialists Backes & Strauss, which now makes watches with the Franck Müller workshop, says: “There are still emerging markets customers who buy for carats...
...“Serait-ce la mort” hasn’t been scheduled since 1979 and on present evidence may not appear again until 2037: set to Richard Strauss’s Vier Letzte Lieder, a man dances with three loves of his life only to...
...website complaining about the supposed neglect of English composers, this all-English programme dug out two rarities: Arnold Bax’s The Garden of Fand, an enchanting tone poem reminiscent of Ravel, and Gerald...
...In other core repertoire we are impeccably served by Mark Elder’s Strauss and Elgar albums (Halle), Vladimir Jurowski’s Rakhmaninov (London Philharmonic) and Mariss Jansons’s Ein Heldenleben and Petrushka...
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