Hints and tips:
...Jennifer France is a touch thin of voice as Mary, but there are keen cameos from Gweneth Ann Rand as George’s mother and Ronald Samm as his uncle Billy....
...It should have been possible to turn the same plot into an opera less hobbled by problems than those created by the libretto given to Benjamin Britten by Ronald Duncan....
...The main work on the second disc is the opening movement of Mahler’s Symphony No 10 in an arrangement by Scottish composer Ronald Stevenson, a Levit favourite....
...Over three discs, he plays two monumental works, Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues, engagingly playful, tender and sparkling, and Ronald Stevenson’s staggeringly huge, 90-minute Passacaglia on DSCH....
...The novelty is the companion work, the staggeringly huge Passacaglia on DSCH by Scottish composer Ronald Stevenson (1928-2015)....
...The pace could be tightened up as it progresses around the country, but David Webb and especially Ronald Samm as the lead pair, Severin and Olim, know how to put their roles over, and Clarissa Meek adds...
...She sang at the second inaugurations of US presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton....
...Tenor Ronald Samm, who made such a big impact as Verdi’s Otello in Birmingham, is looking for a change in outlook, bolstered by better access to education....
...Then came a real rarity in the form of Ronald Stevenson’s Peter Grimes Fantasy on Themes from Britten, a slice of dour modernism that deconstructed wisps of themes from Britten’s opera and had Levit reaching...
...His ambitious programme includes music by Bach, Beethoven and the octogenarian Ronald Stevenson....
...‘They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else’: A History of the Armenian Genocide, by Ronald Grigor Suny, Princeton University Press, RRP£24.95/$35 If you read one book about the 1915 Armenian genocide...
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