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...The first half of the concert was devoted to Mozart’s G major Violin Concerto, in a well-studied, intermittently charming but somewhat formal rendition by Frank Peter Zimmermann....
...They dazzled in the glittering complexity of an orchestral arrangement of one of Nancarrow’s Studies for Player Piano and Zappa’s G-Spot Tornado....
...From the collection of the late Dr Gustav Rau, it is being sold to benefit Unicef Germany and is expected to fetch between £2.5m and £3.5m....
...For UK investors, Becket recommends Morgan Stanley’s Global Brands fund and M&G Global Basics....
...Steiner-Prag’s Golem on the cover is fire red; the old gothic German ‘G’ like a flame emerging from the Satanic head....
...Key pieces include “Woman Crouching with Green Scarf”, “Houses with Laundry” and “Reclining Nude”; they hang alongside works by Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Richard Gerstl and Kolo Moser....
...The soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto in G, K.453, was Emanuel Ax, whose interest in period style has led him to an appreciation of classical grace and proportion....
...Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G minor will be followed by the chamber version of Gustav Mahler’s large-scale, six-movement piece, Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth)....
...But the San Francisco Symphony followed through with its planned performance of the Sixth, or “Tragic”, Symphony of Gustav Mahler....
...The programme opened with Schubert’s Mass in G, a 20-minute work at polar opposites to “heavenly length” Schubert extolled by Schumann....
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