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...With Bruckner, Richard Strauss, Mahler and others, it was also a living and profound exploration of romanticism flowing into Modernism, under Carnegie’s Fall of the Weimar Republic festival....
...Three other major works — Bach’s Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 903 and Liszt’s mighty Piano Sonata in B Minor and Alban Berg’s Piano Sonata, Op 1 — provide the staging posts....
...His productions for the Royal Opera have included Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Berg’s Lulu and the recently revived, compelling production of Verdi’s La forza del destino...
...There are still examples of operas in the 20th century that have the killing of a woman as their climactic event — both of Berg’s operas, Wozzeck and Lulu, for example — but gradually the composers of the...
...“They’re going to continue playing this game of trying to split the opposition,” Berg said. “It’s divide and conquer.”...
...The outstanding feature of Berg’s Violin Concerto was the skill with which Jurowski sifted the complex orchestral parts, allowing Vilde Frang’s solo violin always to have prominence....
...It is extraordinary to think that Büchner’s play Woyzeck was written before Queen Victoria came to the throne and Berg’s opera, which is based on it, before the Great Depression....
...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 first half consisted of three very diverse composers from the early 20th century — Berg, Khrennikov and Gershwin — before settling into a second half devoted to Chopin....
...He was thrilled by opera — he knew Richard Strauss’s Modernist milestones Salome and Elektra by heart (“I told you I was a strange child!”), and at 13 discovered Alban Berg’s Wozzeck....
...In Portland, the Conservative MP Richard Drax, Dorset Council and many residents have fiercely protested against the coming of Bibby Stockholm....
...Her Berg and Mahler share the same lyrical beauty and these are also performances that make the poetry matter. ★★★★☆ ‘Wagner, Berg and Mahler: Orchestral Songs’ is released by Warner Classics...
...“With ESG, there is a diversity of opinion in the marketplace — and that’s fine,” says Richard Mattison, president of intelligence provider S&P Global Sustainable1....
...The ownership of the estate can be traced back as far as 1521 when it was entrusted by Henry VIII to the diplomat Sir Richard Weston....
...The hothouse atmosphere of Berg’s Seven Early Songs was subtly captured and Francesca Chiejina, recently one of the Royal Opera House’s Jette Parker Young Artists, proved an inspired choice as soloist, gleaming...
...vs Big Oil A fierce and sometimes surreal controversy has felled Oslo’s entire government, giving a taste of some of the debates that are likely to resurface in national elections in September, writes Richard...
...Richard Chamberlain, equity analyst at RBC Capital Markets, predicted that in the short term H&M “may see a negative impact on its sales” in China, which accounts for about 6 per cent of the group’s total...
...The link through to Berg felt logical, when the music is sung with the same naturalness, no Freudian hypersensitivity....
...This was a varied programme, more successful in its mix of English-language folk songs and art songs than in the German repertoire, though Berg’s Seven Early Songs had rapturous moments, not least the soaring...
...As a result, the combined consumer and retail practice will be led by Financo’s chief executive John Berg....
...A repeat of this concert will be given at the Barbican on February 13, when Christus am Ölberge will again be paired with a performance of Berg’s Violin Concerto by Lisa Batiashvili. ★★★★☆ barbican.org.uk...
...Despite the protests, Ms Berg from the Greens remains unapologetic. She argues that combating climate change requires a big and costly shift....
...A pair of Bach chorale preludes, as orchestrated by Schoenberg, made a telling curtainraiser to Berg’s Violin Concerto, another work which memorably quotes a Bach chorale, in a cultured performance by Christian...
...The latest interest rate development places great demands on banks’ advice related to the selling of wealth products,” said Jesper Berg, head of the Danish FSA....
...“The concentration and the sexiness started in discovery but the digital health world has grown exponentially in the past year,” says Niven Narain, co-founder of biotech group Berg. 3....
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