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...Lise Davidsen’s performance as Leonora in Verdi’s La forza del destino at the Metropolitan Opera can only be described as towering....
...Best known for exploring the roots and strands of Puerto Rican music, recent releases include two volumes of El Arte Del Bolero, a warm-hearted duet with pianist Luis Perdomo, and Law Years, an original...
...Or Playa del Silencio, aptly named, where dramatic rock formations encircle a lonely beach....
...“Composing with a guitar is more harmonic, whereas with the oud, it’s more about melody,” he says. “There is a deeper connection between your voice and the instrument....
...It’s sort of was like a Lana Del Rey feeling, a kind of R&B feeling song. I really thought it was good. And I think she’s really, like, perennially good....
...Chang’s arroz con pato (duck with rice), a popular dish in the region she’s from and one that can be easily overcooked or dry, is beautifully moist, and I can’t stop shovelling it into my mouth while we’...
...Finally, a dessert, such as arroz con leche (rice pudding), flan or fruit. These options will either be written on a blackboard or a piece of paper, or reeled off at great speed by your waiter....
...Former hippy enclaves such as Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles are treated as dreamy utopias where the grooves are forever easy and the melodies always sweet....
...A lullaby of St Anne, “Ninna Nanna di Sant’Anna del ‘700’”, zips along with rockabilly vigour driven by Mario Monterosso’s twanging guitar....
...And “Fair Annie” wraps a response to the bleak Child ballad of the same name in another extravagantly pretty melody, rendering it timeless and clear. ★★★★☆ ‘Rolling Golden Holy’ is released by 37d03d...
...Slow piano melodies predominate. Subtle details emerge in the background, a swell of orchestration here, a brushed drum routine there. There is much focus on Del Rey’s voice....
...Melodies shimmer almost psychedelically at the edge of the action, like heat haze....
...The melody-writing is at its prettiest on the opening of “Por La Vereda”, before another lurching bassline, like an escapee from Coldplay at their most decadent, capsizes the song....
...It feels like a beanstalk, twisting upwards into the jungles and banana plantations of the Sierra del Puril....
...Leof Andrea Siggrou 166, Kallithea 176 71, Greece (+3021-0984 8992; ekkayachts.com) The last music I downloaded was something by the American jazz singer Melody Gardot....
...“Fallen Leaves” sets Cherry’s thoughtful vocals to a gently insistent background beat and slowly revolving melodies from keyboards and harp....
...Standout track “In Your Face” is about a long-resisted moment of self-reckoning towards which the singer is drawn by mellow percussion and an enticing but off-kilter piano melody....
...“Danza Del Mar” fuses porro, a music with pre-Columbian roots, with more modern cumbia; its easy sway and chanted vocal melody subverted by sci-fi bleeps and whistles and whooshes from the Theremin and a...
...Now we feel like the world is listening to us; as musicians, we start doing the beats and melodies, and we’re immediately thinking, ‘How are they gonna feel this in Russia, or across Asia, or in the US,...
...Since then, Deutscher has continued her interest in the piano and violin (she is currently playing a priceless Guarneri del Gesù instrument on loan) and has composed a piano concerto (lyrical, late Romantic...
...“Apple, Facebook, YouTube, Vevo, Vimeo, Spotify and Instagram are all key platforms,” says Semera Khan, video commissioner at the Polydor label, whose work with acts including Lana Del Rey, Haim and Mick...
...Stevie Parker The Cure (Virgin EMI) Bristol-based singer-songwriter Stevie Parker emerges from the more reflective end of the mainstream pop spectrum, the one where Lana Del Rey sighs about self-destruction...
...Muti worked bristling intensity into richly embellished melodies, and drove his players on to ardent climaxes....
...Jean-Marie Ecay delivered a searing guitar solo and Camelia Ben Naceur on keyboards really got the party going with funky Latin riffs and infectious, singing melody....
...Not unlike Scheherazade. 2, the title includes a knowing wink: Puccini’s Fanciulla del West is about a “Girl of the West”....
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