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...Bach: Goldberg Variations Vikingur Ólafsson It is 25 years since Vikingur Ólafsson decided he wanted to record Bach’s Goldberg Variations....
...This spirit is also alive in This House of Grief, which explored the trial of Robert Farquharson, a 35-year-old cleaner who, it was alleged, deliberately crashed his car into a dam on Father’s Day in 2005...
...Follow Robert @robertshrimsley and email him at robert.shrimsley@ft.com Follow @FTMag to find out about our latest stories first...
...Other parts of the palace are used for performances too, not least the Hall of Mirrors, where Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas can be heard on April 20, and the Chapelle Royale, where Bach’s B Minor Mass and Mozart...
...Robert Miller’s new orchestrations, though less tacky, did much to make four of the eight dances fall flat....
...The artist Robert Rauschenberg was there, as were members of the Judson Dance Theater. “And people said, oh, you’re doing something different,” he says....
...Smart conjoins Bach-like surges from low notes to high with sensuous Middle Eastern inflections, has a wide sonic range and simultaneously plucks and bows....
...As in Bach’s Passions, this allows for a mix of narrative and reflection, with wide contrasts of mood....
...In 1995, she moved to Switzerland, where she took citizenship in 2013 after marrying her second husband, Erwin Bach. She’s survived by him and two adopted sons....
...After the short but musically rich Arabeske in C major, the rest of his programme was comprised of JS Bach’s Goldberg Variations....
...Although Schütz’s Die Weihnachtshistorie has a similarity to Bach’s Easter Passions, its brevity makes the work more concentrated....
...As well as Herbie Hancock, Buddy Guy, George Benson and Thundercat, Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant and country singer Alison Krauss reunite for their Grammy-winning duo....
...Robert Louis Stevenson, in the dedicatory lines of A Child’s Garden of Verses, refers to his nanny as “My second Mother, my first Wife, / The angel of my infant life.”...
...Of course, there’s an outlandish alternative proposed by the FT’s Robert Shrimsley: “We are going to have to nationalise Chelsea.”...
...including; our analysis on where the England team went awry on the pitch, a report on violent scenes around London’s Wembley Stadium, the FT’s leading article on racism in English football, and columnist Robert...
...range — his Brief History of Mathematics was masterful radio, and I’ve seen him compère concerts of classical music, interspersing the pieces with discussions of the mathematical patterns in Mozart and Bach...
...But it was his reading of Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach soon after this “amazing book” was published in 1979, that introduced him to the concepts of mind, consciousness and artificial intelligence...
...Perhaps taking his cue from Bach’s Easter Passions, MacMillan has assembled a multi-layered text....
...That may help to explain how he can be equally an enthusiast for Bach and Beethoven, flamenco and American blues and jazz greats such as Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters and Miles Davis....
...The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Bach AA Milne Peanuts Matthew, Mark, Luke and John Round Two Snowflake Kit Kat Aeroflot Picnic at Hanging Rock Guns N’ Roses The fingers Yorkie Boost Bourbon Bounty...
...The Amsterdam Gemengd Koor, an august choir of over 90 years’ standing, was giving its Easter performance of Bach’s St John Passion in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam’s leading concert-hall....
...This means they fit easily into a concert, as for example at last year’s BBC Proms, when we had a series of new works that matched up with Bach’s six Brandenburg Concertos....
...Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro are answerable for many films. But there’s something deeply special about their gangster dramas....
...Robert Houssart draws wonderful playing from the house orchestra, and brings impressive clarity and warmth to the score....
...Robert Murray was the clear Evangelist, Cody Quattlebaum the dignified Jesus. The other main soloists — Ruby Hughes, Rachael Lloyd, Gwilym Bowen and Nicky Spence — each made their mark....
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