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...The work was Beethoven’s Septet in E Flat, Op 20, performed with a high level of skill and spirit, earning the players a well-deserved encore in the form of a movement of Schubert’s Octet....
...Beer slyly reveals layer after layer of Nadja’s personality, while Schubert’s Leon balances the sympathetic and the downright rebarbative....
...The most recent of these, available on demand (donations are invited), features one of the hall’s most loyal groups, the Nash Ensemble, in Dvorak’s gloriously romantic Piano Quartet No.2 in E Flat and Schubert...
...We write in response to James E Hansen et al’s letter (“EU must include nuclear power in its list of sustainable sources”, December 17), which mistakenly advocates nuclear energy to address climate change...
...(in this case, the splendours of Bavarian late baroque architecture, in particular Ludwig II’s Linderhof Palace); culminating in a performance by one of the world’s finest pianists, Igor Levit, playing Schubert...
...You might adore the refinement of Jörg Widmann’s clarinet-playing, both in Schubert’s Der Hirt auf dem Felsen and in his own 1993 Fantasie für Klarinette Solo, or ignore it....
...64-year-old businessman announced a Virgin cruise line, launched a satellite project, judged a competition for entrepreneurs, spent an afternoon at the Royal Geographical Society, and watched a Formula E...
...“My passaggio — or breaking point — is right across where altos usually stick, that’s D, E flat just above middle C, so going through it or above it or below it is easier....
...MandM Direct is the latest discount private equity-backed e-tailer to announce it plans to join the Alternative Investment Market, with its owners hoping to achieve a market capitalisation of between £140m...
...“B-e-e-t-h-o-v-e-n”, my friend helpfully replied and repeated the name “Beethoven”, whereupon the concierge further enquired, “Is he a guest of the hotel?” My friend was amused and said, “No....
...Schubert’s Notturno in E Flat Major, D. 897, was also written in the last year of its composer’s life. Like other late Schubert chamber works, it moves in ambitious dimensions of space and time....
...Mozart’s E flat sonata K282, the one that unusually begins with an adagio, gave the evening a subdued start....
...It was only with Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in E flat major, “Les Adieux”, that the size of playing went up a gear....
...The second half comprised shorter pieces by Schubert and Brahms....
...Renowned for his experimental interpretations of Bach’s St John Passion (without conductor) and Schubert’s Winterreise (with poetry and sound effects), as much as for his lean, sinuous voice, Padmore is...
...The loose theme was early and late styles, with Mozart’s Waisenhaus Mass in C minor, written when the composer was just 12 years old, followed by Schubert’s final Mass in E flat major....
...Power was joined by pianist Simone Dinnerstein and clarinettist Martin Frost for Mozart’s Trio in E flat, K498, then by violinist Renaud Capuçon and cellist Mischa Maisky for Mozart’s Divertimento K563....
...And by the time they reached Brahms’s Cello Sonata No 1 in E minor, Op 38, they were well into their stride. It was just as well: inhibition has no place in this brooding work....
...The Nocturne in E Flat Major, Op.55 No.2, projected its singing lines with a little more intent. In the Scherzo No.3 the moments of introspection made more impact than Goode’s effortful double octaves....
...Listening to their resonant tapestry in Schubert’s “Liebesbotschaft” from Schwanengesang, it was easy to forget the song on which it was based. Not all the arrangements worked on this exalted plane....
...I caught the last, when Isserlis, tenor Mark Padmore and pianist Dénes Várjon, made Schubert’s “Auf dem Strom” into an awe-inspiring psychodrama....
...Later in the day I get an e-mail with a picture of a rubber mosaic pretty enough for Tate Modern....
...Schubert, String Quintet in C major 4. Beethoven, Symphony No 6 in F Major “Pastoral” 5....
...To the passionately driven andante from Schubert’s Trio No. 2 in E flat, the blinking mechanical buzzards grew playful, testy and caring: human....
...This doyen of British pianists has made majestic recordings of everything from Schubert, Chopin and Liszt to Saint-Saëns and Scriabin....
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