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...Messe des Morts, Haydn’s Creation performed with a huge chorus and orchestra (25 winds, 15 brass, 70 strings) and – most gloriously monstrous of all – a reconstruction of the premiere of Mendelssohn’s Elijah...
...In a letter to Stevenson, thanking him for his compliments about the “very ingenious” Holmes stories, he explained that his character was a “bastard” (ie a cross) between Joe Bell, an Edinburgh surgeon known...
...Edith Haller makes a convincing Elsa, thanks to her bell-like soprano and gracious presence....
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