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...The first night features two pieces from Bruckner and Berg; the second celebrates Paul Hindemith and Richard Strauss; the third is Mahler’s Symphony No 9. March 1, 2 and 3....
...The highlight was the premiere of a new piece by John Paul Jones, best known as the former bassist and keyboardist with Led Zeppelin....
...Letter in response to this article: Women in business must be a priority in US tax reform plans / From Caroline Bruckner, Washington, DC, US...
...Through the momentous echo of St Paul’s odd pieces can shine. Penderecki’s Threnody is possibly odd enough....
...sacred dramas, like the mature Bruckner symphonies, are mere variations on a theme – always the same shape and substance, just dressed in different clothes....
...Bach’s St John Passion, Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony and Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov have recently moved him to tears....
...The last three works – Elgar’s In the South, Brahms’s Alto Rhapsody and Bruckner’s Psalm 150 – are masterpieces, but I couldn’t figure out why the Bruckner was there....
...An early highlight promises to be Paul McCreesh conducting the Gabrieli Consort in an English translation of Haydn’s choral masterpiece The Creation (July 18), with vocalists including Rosemary Joshua and...
...To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra has taken the bold step of embracing its competition....
...That has been as true of his entire Mahler cycle this season as it was of the Ninth Symphony which brought the Barbican series to a close at the end of last week (only the mammoth Eighth Symphony, at St Paul...
...An attack on western “masochism” by the philosopher Pascal Bruckner, La tyrannie de la pénitence, became a bestseller of the campaign season....
...Obsessed by the Romantic writers Jean Paul and E.T.A. Hoffmann, he shared their preoccupation with the idea of the split self, or doppelganger....
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