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...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...The suites vary, but all are 50sq m with courtyard entrances, and furnished with pieces by – or at least inspired by – Arne Jacobsen, Eero Saarinen, Joe Colombo, Isamu Noguchi, Charles and Ray Eames et al...
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...grand acoustic of King’s College chapel. ★★★☆☆ Bartók, Ravel, et al Deux Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Polina Leschenko (Alpha Classics) Hand a piece of music to Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the effect...
...Stanford, Elgar, et al Silence and Music Gabrieli Consort (Winged Lion/Signum Classics) Sample the first track and this disc is likely to go straight into the basket of purchases....
...Bizet, Massenet, et al L’Opéra Jonas Kaufmann (Sony Classical) A pattern has emerged which sees Jonas Kaufmann release a disc of operatic arias each autumn in time for the seasonal market....
...Luther, Bach, et al Reformation 1517-2017 Choir of Clare College, Cambridge (Harmonia Mundi) Luther’s hammering of his Ninety-five Theses onto the door of a church in Wittenberg in 1517 echoes down the...
...Schubert, Wolf, et al Heimat Benjamin Appl (Sony Classical) It is fitting that a young singer’s vision of home should be so cosmopolitan....
...Austin, Bantock, et al British Tone Poems Volume 1 BBC National Orchestra of Wales (Chandos) Languishing on the library shelves is a largely unplayed archive of tone poems by British composers....
...Puccini, Verdi, et al Opera Gala Badische Staatskapelle (Sony Classical) For some light relief on New Year’s Eve how about swapping the annual Johann Strauss concert for an opera gala?...
...Pärt, Britten, et al The Tree of Life The Trinity Choir (Sony Classical) The running theme of this disc is the Seven Magnificat-Antiphons by Arvo Pärt, written for the seven days leading up to Christmas...
...Taverner, Rachmaninov, et al Haec Dies: Music for Easter Choir of Clare College, Cambridge (Harmonia Mundi) Here is Easter music ancient and modern....
...Strauss, Stolz, et al New Year’s Concert 2016 Vienna Philharmonic & Mariss Jansons (Sony) If you missed the annual New Year concert from Vienna the morning after the night before, here is an opportunity...
...The visuals of Sony’s well-filmed DVD — almost a son et lumière production in the floodlit palace grounds with fireworks at the end — are more interesting than the music....
...Massenet, Gounod, et al Paris, mon amour Sonya Yoncheva (Sony Classical) On Monday, Sonya Yoncheva takes to the Royal Opera stage in one of her signature roles, Violetta in Verdi’s La traviata....
...Broughton, Davis, Desplat, et al Montage Gloria Cheng (Harmonia Mundi) Take film composers away from the celluloid and what do we get?...
...English today is “more widely spoken and written, than any language has ever been”, wrote Robert McCrum et al in The Story of English. In addition, smartphone apps can now translate speech on the spot....
...(Wall Street Journal) Sony rejoins BMG for Parlophone bid: “Sony has teamed up with BMG to bid for Parlophone and other EMI labels being sold off by Universal Music, reuniting Sony and Bertelsmann four...
...If Edna O’Brien et al turn up next year, this festival will be worth attending....
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...Now, with the help of those who could be called, in a benign sense, the usual suspects – Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, Rabbi Julia Neuberger et al – Armstrong has launched her Charter for Compassion...
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...al at last week’s Grammys), British pop is better placed to cope with the economic meltdown than any of its global rivals....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
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