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...May 18; further information and tickets here June Art ‘Matthew Barney: “Secondary”’, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain See US multimedia artist Matthew Barney’s latest video installation, Secondary...
...They sounded darkly romantic in Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony and full of brio in Lutoslawski’s Concerto for Orchestra....
...Beethoven copied passages into his journal, Schubert wrote an unfinished opera on it and Goethe wrote an epigram about the heroine. Goethe then turned to the Middle East....
...Only BalletX co-founder Matthew Neenan’s contribution consistently stretched the dancers and us....
...“Im Dorfe” from Schubert’s Winterreise was a little too ungainly to convey any real hint of magic....
...Schubert Schwanengesang Matthew Rose (Stone Records) English bass Matthew Rose shows that a deep voice and low keys need not make for a gloomy experience in Schubert....
...Jonathan Miller’s 1993 semi-staging of Bach’s St Matthew Passion was a significant precursor, but that was performed in a church....
...Double rooms at Schloss Elmau cost from €222 or from €408 half-board, including access to all cultural events and spa Illustration by Matthew Cook...
...Mainly set to Schubert and Gavin Bryars, May B features 10 performers, their faces made older and masklike with clay....
...A highly experienced cast is led by Matthew Rose as Hercules and Alice Coote as his wife, Dejanira, fated to lose her wits....
...AC glyndebourne.com, 01273 812321 … River of Fundament, June 29-30, Coliseum, London Loosely based on Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings, this is an “operatic film” by visual artist Matthew Barney...
...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...
...When he describes his music, as in the programme for his Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra, which Viktoria Mullova and Matthew Barley premiered at this year’s BBC Proms, his words suggest architecture...
...A group of Schubert songs in Italian, like little arias from a forgotten comic opera by Mozart, gave notice of what a fine Figaro he must make....
...On Palm Sunday, the Rundfunkchor Berlin sing Bach’s St Matthew Passion; soloists include British tenor Mark Padmore....
...An air of reverence hangs over Schubert’s Winterreise, considered by many the greatest Romantic song cycle, and one of the most enigmatic....
...But while Mitchell’s style may be distinctive, it is not always successful – as evidenced by the way Glyndebourne audiences gave the thumbs-down to her Bach St Matthew Passion....
...Matthew Plenk exhibited bona fide bel canto finesse in the tenor solos and a bass simply named Shenyang sustained graceful gravitas at the lower depths....
...Devoted to his artists, obsessive, ruthless – when he poached Rachel Whiteread from rival dealer Karsten Schubert in 1996, Schubert closed down – d’Offay has compelled admiration and suspicion in equal measure...
...The pianist Alfred Brendel, who retires from the concert platform at the end of this year, will make his last festival appearance in which he will play Schubert’s final piano sonata in Edinburgh’s Usher...
...There is also plenty to indulge dance fans, with the world premiere of Matthew Bourne’s highly anticipated adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as the State Ballet of Georgia...
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