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...They include the “Dance of the Reed Pipes”, which has become “Toot Toot Tootie Toot” with rhythm section; the “Waltz of the Flowers”, not a waltz any more and with new perky clarinet interjections; the “...
...of the genre hailed from Vienna, capital of the whipped-cream Austrian brand of operetta, and the sensuous “Liebe, du Himmel auf Erden” from Lehár’s Paganini is a lovely example, the archetypal Viennese waltz...
...It was special to hear players with an innate feeling for the lilt of the waltz, from the world’s most famous waltz orchestra, Welser-Möst’s brilliant touches of rubato compressing and then launching the...
...Most will know him from the diabolically awful Love Actually, playing the groovy prime minister who falls for Nathalie, his heart o’gold assistant, in Richard Curtis’s cringe-inducing film....
...The ballad “Big Richard”, with composer Alexander strongly featured on alto sax, is a warm-hearted memorial to Alexander’s late father....
...Macbeth, an outpouring of noise and fury, and the rather unsatisfactory suite from Der Rosenkavalier, not compiled by Strauss himself (though how he would have enjoyed Nelsons’ gently teasing way with the waltz...
...Two imposing sets of variations — Bach’s Goldberg Variations and Beethoven’s Thirty-three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli — loom like giants over the piano repertoire....
...In 1819, the music publisher Anton Diabelli sent out a waltz to the leading composers of his day, inviting each to write a variation to form a “patriotic anthology”....
...(Rizzoli, $95) Tara Tabbara How to Dance the Waltz When do we stop being children and become adults?...
...Washington can’t just waltz back in every four to eight years and take seats that others want,” he said....
...If you were to waltz down Wall Street or perform a cha-cha-cha in the City of London, the sparkly sequins of Strictly would seem a world away from investing in financial markets....
...Richard Horsey, a Yangon-based analyst, said the listing of the pair was “largely symbolic” because they had “no known assets in the UK and wouldn’t be allowed to travel there anyway”....
...It did not help that Weill’s score is an entertaining collage of opera, cabaret, tango, waltz, foxtrot and polka, inviting the accusation of the “un-German” style the Nazis had outlawed as “entartete Musik...
...Batchelor introduces the sinewy Richard Strauss theme in pinched muted tones, Allsopp intertwines on bass clarinet and the mood is sultry and sensuous....
...Walbourne also serves as the guitarist of The Pretenders, and Thompson is the daughter of Richard and Linda Thompson, and between them they sound as if they live and breathe melody....
...says Richard Ranft, the library’s head of sound and vision....
...Dando was so sweet she even had a crush on Cliff Richard, and we see the clip of her being pranked by him during a live broadcast, giggling as she is swept away in a waltz....
...The words are by Gene Scheer, another of Heggie’s regular collaborators, and they skilfully allow for a series of contrasted scenes, including an erotic dream, a waltz and a magical Indian play, before descending...
...The main focus of Morley’s trio is the close relationship between piano and Richard Sadler’s counterpoint bass, and though themes conjoin different elements and hints of reggae and bossa nova are in the...
...He also contributes about half the items himself, either in the form of newly composed pieces (it was a wicked idea to refashion the well-known “Radetzky” March as a waltz) or arrangements of popular pieces...
...Leschenko throws in a glittering arrangement of the waltz from Delibes’s Coppélia by Dohnányi. Everything bristles with hard driving and fleeting colours. ★★★★☆...
...The scenario’s journey through Claudel’s life has been conceived to provide opportunities for a series of picturesque musical styles, a dream sequence, a distorted waltz, an Indian-spiced interlude, and...
...The “godchild of Viennese waltz and technological disruption” is how one past participant described it....
...Within the past year they have lost their drummer of 25 years, Richard Jupp, while Garvey has married and is about to become a father....
...The Waltz Suite, also premiered in 1947, makes a contrastingly urbane filler. The cycle as a whole is building nicely, though some dazzlingly virtuoso Prokofiev playing can be found elsewhere....
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