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...The choreography, like Fauré’s score, conjures the atmosphere and romance of 19th-century France and demands windblown port de bras and complete surrender to the music (rather than a collective count under...
...Cellist Steven Isserlis — accompanied with style by pianist Connie Shih — has brought together a collection of the kind of music that might have been heard....
...Beneficiaries of the Stradivari Trust include violinist Nigel Kennedy (the first recipient) and cellists Steven Isserlis and Natalie Clein....
...cast, with the exception of the ever-musical Laura Morera and the elegant Itziar Mendizabal, while one promising soloist defeats her own gifts with a relentless smile which betrays both Balanchine and Fauré...
...repertory on Saturday, its three disparate movements united by their common theme — Balanchine’s affection for the gems he saw at Van Cleef & Arpels — and offering marvellous insights into the music of Fauré...
...He estimated that about two-thirds of bakers are closed this month, compared with half normally, leaving it harder to find bread in some areas such as around Père-Lachaise cemetery or L’avenue Félix-Faure...
...And in the central Rubies we found Natalia Osipova, ideally matched with the blazing Steven McRae. Blissful, joyous, naughty, bravura dancing from them both....
...To the rescue came the cast of Rubies, led by Sarah Lamb, Steven McRae, Zenaida Yanowsky, who sped through Stravinsky’s Capriccio for piano and orchestra, and told us that life and dance were not extinct...
...Sol Gabetta and Hélène Grimaud Duo (Deutsche Grammophon) Steven Isserlis and Thomas Adès Lieux retrouvés (Hyperion)...
...So the opening Emeralds uses Fauré theatre scores to make dance that is (like its music) subtle in emotion, elegant in expression, a green thought in a green place....
...It was a good idea to invite cellist Steven Isserlis to look at it again and plan a series of recitals that sets Saint-Saëns’ work alongside that of Fauré and Ravel, a French trio of chamber music masters...
...Steven Isserlis’s Wigmore Hall residency begins on November 11 with a programme of chamber music by Saint-Saëns, Fauré and Ravel. www.wigmore-hall.org.uk...
...He, or rather the Royal Ballet’s principal dancer Steven McRae, was present at the unveiling of a plaque bang in the middle of Poets’ Corner, to record the founders of the Royal Ballet (now the Birmingham...
...The gesture, the moment, seem a farewell to what has gone before, those delicately shadowed actions which spring serenely from Fauré’s music for Pelléas and Shylock....
...This recital with the cellist Steven Isserlis neatly encapsulated the dilemma....
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