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...I think that’s pretty useful,” one of the paper’s authors Quoc Le tells me....
...Christophe Rousset and the period-instrument ensemble Les Talens Lyriques make Fausto flare into life and there is a fine cast led by Karine Deshayes as Fausto, going back to the original casting of the...
...Hervé Niquet, founder-conductor of Le Concert Spirituel, presents a new realisation that aims to get as close as possible to the details of Charpentier’s score....
...The Chansons pour les oiseaux make a good place to start, a gentle evocation of life and death, good and evil, to elusive texts by Paul Fort....
...In recent years Savall and his period-instrument ensemble Le Concert des Nations have worked through a complete cycle of Beethoven’s symphonies and their recording of the Missa solemnis, for which they are...
...In a role that is almost a three-hour monologue, Mark Le Brocq is unfailingly clear and communicative, making even the most philosophical of Aschenbach’s musings easily understood....
...Over two decades Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques have made recordings of Lully’s operas a central strand of their work....
...Alongside natural wines from Shoreditch’s Passione Vino and cult importer Les Caves De Pyrene, Sharpe is cooking a simple but exquisitely executed French-Mediterranean menu of panisse with whipped cod’s...
...It was paired on either side with two colourful works, Berlioz’s Overture Le Corsaire and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade....
...He was not the first from the jazz world to do so — the Les Brown Orchestra and trumpeter Shorty Rogers had been there before him — but Ellington’s toe-tappingly upbeat reinvention of Tchaikovsky, made with...
...Although this was only a concert performance with some limited staging, it presented Les Troyens, Berlioz’s epic operatic take on Roman mythology, in royal style....
...Arlington, which takes its name from its location on Arlington Street, is taking bookings from March (Richard Caring retains the Le Caprice name and there is talk that he will revive it in the Chancery Rosewood...
...Les Siècles played Ligeti on modern instruments, but returned after the interval with their usual period instruments for Mozart — an interesting double act....
...“The sector needs consolidation because ultimately the economics of the sector means there’s too many players,” Panmure Gordon president Richard Morecombe told the FT....
...Add a fine bass, Sreten Manojlović, to the vocal quartet and sparkling choral singing and playing from Les Arts Florissants and this L’Allegro casts its happy spell. ★★★★☆ ‘Handel: L’Allegro, il Penseroso...
...This programme opened with Messiaen’s Les Offrandes oubliées, not often performed, an early work that is recognisably Messiaen, but has at its centre an unusually extrovert showpiece for the orchestra....
...The highlight of this programme at Milton Court Concert Hall in London was the premiere of a memorable new song cycle by Richard Blackford....
...First up, his reincarnation of Le Caprice (or Arlington, as it will now be known), following its closure by Richard Caring. The pictures, the tables and bar back mirror have all been reinstated....
...However, I’d rather join a Cliff Richard singalong at Wimbledon than wear something like a Sporty & Rich top emblazoned with the word “Wellness”, which is saying something....
...But Trump did win in 2016 and might win in November, just as Le Pen might well win the next French presidential election....
...Bass Le Bu sang Biterolf’s short song with patience, and then everything was back to its previous heights. Act three was glorious, the final chorus heart-stirring, the crowd applauding with fervour....
...Apeing Le Pen: Emmanuel Macron is pivoting to the right, but the attempt to win voters before the European elections is a tall order, writes Sylvie Kauffmann....
...A wop-bop-a-loo-bop, a-wop-CBAM-boom (Sincere apologies to fans of Little Richard.)...
...Kissinger served as national security adviser under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford from 1969-75 1972: In the White House barber shop with barber Milton Pitts 1974: Kissinger accepts food from...
...I bumped into the third participant, fellow Master of Wine Richard Bampfield, a few days later. I asked him how he’d felt afterwards. He grimaced....
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