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...Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 by Christopher Clark (Allen Lane) Clark charts the emergence of a new Europe in an exhilarating reappraisal of 1848 — one of the most dramatic and...
...Crossword 16,254: Richard Heaton, London; Hector Langfeldt, Birmingham; Saira Kamaly, London Polymath 1,036: Eamonn O’Riordan, Ireland Crossword 16,248: Nicholas JP Weaver, Manchester, England; Steve Clark...
...to Nazi Germany, Christopher Clark’s book focuses on how four rulers — the Great Elector, Frederick the Great, Bismarck and Hitler — understood historical and future time in distinctive ways that shaped...
...Handel Finest Arias For Base Voice Christopher Purves (Hyperion)...
...Clark’s The Sleepwalkers and Margaret MacMillan’s The War that Ended Peace , we had two likely classics before 2014 even arrived....
...Andrew Clark ——————————————- POP Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music....
...Christopher Purves is a suave Mephistopheles, and Edward Gardner chorales orchestra and chorus with ravishing sensitivity. www.eno.org...
...The four men – Keith Lewis, Gordon Gietz, Johannes Weisser and Christopher Purves – found inspiration in her example, and an evening that on paper had looked thin ended up full of purpose....
...This time she takes shoe designer Blahnik’s colourful life story – he was born on a banana plantation and designed shoes for Ossie Clark in the 1960s – and blends it with the narrative of “The Elves and...
...Lots of rich personality. 14.5% £8.99 Marks & Spencer Dom des Terres Falmet, L’Ivresse des Cimes 2006 St-Chinian Scented and heady. Lovely ripeness and polish....
...Andrew Clark FT chief music critic ………………………………………….....
...Drake’s pianism – at its artless best in the rippling surface of “L’invitation au voyage” – was on this occasion a recital in itself. www.temple2008.org...
...When Monteverdi wrote L’incoronazione di Poppea for republican Venice in 1642, he devised an opera not about mythical archetypes but – a probable first for the nascent art form – about real human beings....
...Ravel’s L’Heure espagnole and Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi both celebrate earthly desire – in the shape of sex (Ravel) and wealth (Puccini). The fact that the sex and wealth are illicit doesn’t matter....
...Mobilizing Minds: Creating Wealth from Talent in the 21st Century Organization By Lowell L. Bryan and Claudia L....
...Interview: Dick Clark, chief executive of Merck, the US pharmaceuticals company, talks to the FT’s Christopher Bowe....
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