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...A dizzyingly eclectic soundtrack takes in Bach, Poulenc, modern tango master Astor Piazzolla and some singularly grungy early 1970s blues from an LP by Argentine rocker Pappo, which plays a significant role...
...Jonathan Stafford, who became the company’s artistic director in 2019, is undoubtedly conscientious, but qualities of vision and authority are not yet evident in his direction....
...Take the example of Bach’s “Chaconne” [written for solo violin]....
...They are to the fore here, not least because the speeds set by conductor Jonathan Cohen and his lively ensemble Arcangelo are swift and joyous....
...Some of her recommendations had been amusingly specific — play Bach to calm overexcitement; furnish a child with an Apple Watch to encourage exercise — but she’d also spoken more generally about contact...
...On Sunday the IOC president Thomas Bach said he held a video call with Peng and that she appeared to be “doing fine”....
...“We are all working against an invisible deadline,” added Bach. “Once vaccines become prevalent, most of the founders will leave....
...Richard Bach’s Jonathan Livingston Seagull was published by Macmillan in 1970....
...The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Bach AA Milne Peanuts Matthew, Mark, Luke and John Round Two Snowflake Kit Kat Aeroflot Picnic at Hanging Rock Guns N’ Roses The fingers Yorkie Boost Bourbon Bounty...
...“I would rather that everyone read a good book, or listened to a little Bach.”...
...The plot is episodic, and Gibbs’s flights of interpretative fancy (digressions on the treacheries of language, the “intricate stitchwork” of Bach’s violin partitas) might have made way for a closer look...
...Quartermark was a neatly edited greatest hits medley drawn from Fever, Bach Dances, Signal of a Shake and Shimmer (the latter glitzily dressed by crystal mesh addict Julien Macdonald)....
...Jonathan Morton, director and lead violin of the versatile Scottish Ensemble, strikes up the first of Bach’s Goldberg Variations in a version based on the ravishing 1985 string trio transcription by Dimitry...
...She was equally well partnered by the charismatic Jonathan Goddard in Flutter but Iván Pérez’s saccharine and repetitive pairwork — when in doubt: lift and spin — was a missed opportunity....
...Among his students who have gone on to make their names are composers as diverse as Thomas Adès, George Benjamin, Jonathan Dove and Judith Weir....
...“People really talk about the strength of the research culture here,” Mr Bach said. Having said that, Mr Bach also admitted that research funding could be undermined by leaving the EU....
...It ticks all the genre’s boxes: multiple points of view, foremost among them President Jonathan Lincoln Duncan, a cyber-terrorist and a hot female assassin known as Bach....
...Bach Solo cantatas Iestyn Davies (Hyperion) In times past Bach’s solo cantatas tended to exude an aura of sanctified calm....
...C P E Bach Cello Concertos Nicolas Altstaedt (Hyperion) Like father, like son....
...“Payers have their antenna up and . . . they will be aggressive in containing utilisation,” says Dr Peter Bach, a pricing expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center....
...From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds, by Daniel C Dennett, Allen Lane, RRP£25/Norton, RRP$28.95 A philosopher sets out his theory of how human consciousness developed....
...In short episodic chapters that drift into a bigger narrative, again much like the cumulative power of Bach’s suites, Jonathan becomes submersed or “drowned” in a more disturbing case still....
...Bach Violin Concertos Alina Ibragimova (Hyperion) One of the pleasures of the summer was the late nights spent at the BBC Proms in the company of Alina Ibragimova playing Bach....
...The Noise of Time, by Julian Barnes, Jonathan Cape, RRP£14.99/Knopf, RRP$25.95 Barnes’s reimagining of the life of Russian composer Shostakovich, and his difficult relationship with Stalin, is his best...
...Except for hyper-alert Jonathan Porretta, the quintet did not achieve giddy heights by means of precision....
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