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...Now try this I’m off to see the Aurora Orchestra reimagine Schubert’s Winterreise at the South Bank tomorrow, see you again Monday. However you spend it, have a wonderful weekend....
...Joining Harrington, John Sherba (violin) and Hank Dutt (viola) a year ago was cellist Paul Wiancko....
...This year there was a specially commissioned piece by John Williams, composer of film soundtracks from Harry Potter to Indiana Jones. Halwax is thrilled – “It’s John Williams!”...
...Murray £25/Knopf $35, 512 pages Ian Bostridge is a tenor and author of ‘Schubert’s Winter Journey’ (Faber) Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...In another project by London designer Brandon Schubert, a bookshelf stuffed with games gestures to a hidden playroom. For others the point is to deceive, obstruct and surprise....
...“When I think of what we do — from John Bridcut’s [direction of] Schubert’s Winterreise in the Alps, to Joan and Jackie Collins — I can’t think of anything that has that kind of range.”...
...Those threads include links back to the composers John Dowland and William Byrd, but mostly the alchemy is Adès’s own, turning what look like familiar sequences of notes on the page into a magical world...
...Like certain other London memoirs — John Betjeman’s Summoned By Bells, for instance — the mood is elegiac....
...Nicholas Roe’s scholarly and succinct John Keats: A New Life (2012) remains definitive....
...Lang Lang offered a rushed, soulless excerpt from The Goldberg Variations, recorded in Beijing, although Renée Fleming and Joyce DiDonato did honour to Strauss and Schubert....
...César Franck’s Symphony in D Minor was particularly good for being a bear in the woods; Schubert on the piano meant wild waltzing....
...Back in the 1980s, the late art dealer Karsten Schubert introduced Tibbles to the work of an art student called Damien Hirst....
...They sounded darkly romantic in Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony and full of brio in Lutoslawski’s Concerto for Orchestra....
...It includes everything from Franz Schubert’s String Quintet in C Major to Mozart’s La bella tua Zerlina non può from Don Giovanni. Spectacular....
...What makes Prism so compelling is not just its text and the fine singing of Anna Schubert and Rebecca Jo Loeb....
...Michael Schubert, a former Esso Australia chairman and managing director....
...Only the prospect of tackling Bach’s 200-plus cantatas in live performances is comparable, though that has also been done, notably by John Eliot Gardiner’s Monteverdi Choir to mark the millennium....
...Von Schubert was inspired by mistaking a German Pinot Noir, called Spätburgunder in German, for a Chambolle-Musigny when served it blind....
...This is Schubert's song cycle "swan song", written at the age of 31 when he knew he was dying....
...Others should include Virgin, Waitrose, J Sainsbury, Tesco, Top Shop, Marks and Spencer, John Lewis, Starbucks, McDonald’s etc....
...Ian Bostridge sings not only early 17th-century songs by John Dowland (over-interpreted), but also Schubert, Dominick Argento and a new commission, Stephen Goss’s delicately imaginative settings of Chinese...
...When the same piece, John Luther Adams’s “Inuksuit”, was performed a few years ago in Manhattan, dozens of percussionists lurked among the foliage of Morningside Park, their hand-cranked sirens mingling...
...Compared with the evening’s other works, John Corigliano’s Clarinet Concerto (1977), which filled the second half, was positively monumental....
...Alas, few of the same compliments can be paid to the production of John Gabriel Borkman from Vienna’s Burgtheater im Akademietheater....
...(On interpreting a composer’s intentions: “I’ve tried to call Haydn or Schubert recently, they’ve refused to answer the phone, or to return my call. So rude.”)...
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