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...This was the time when Mozart, at his peak, was writing a never-surpassed series of piano concertos, several of which he made available for piano and string quartet....
...It seemed a wonderful place to be dead, adrift here among vines and olives — a soothing sense of timelessness, a backdrop of mountain peaks hinting at the eternal, banks of wildflowers on the slopes like...
...She shows me the buttons running up the centre of the Viola skirt (€1,850), a hothouse-flower pattern printed on heavy black silk (“A vintage print I had remade with this [fabric],” she says....
...design, Zeiss lenses and a vent system to minimise fogging. giro.co.uk Moncler Bear Ears Balaclava, £370 Down-filled, with a shearling effect exterior and . . . teddy-bear ears. moncler.com Perfect Moment Viola...
...“The UK chose to have a long, broad peak, while much of Europe will have a small but very high peak,” said Jeroen van der Hilst, associate professor of immunopathology at Hasselt university in Belgium....
...The varied and satisfying set ends with the frolicsome “Transylvanian Dance” arcing to a peak and a burst of applause giving the first indication that the set was recorded live. ★★★☆☆ ‘ Transylvanian Folk...
...In 2009, the peak of the post-crisis boom in trading, investment banking was just 11 per cent of the whole....
...My spring bedding goes over in a month: hers goes on for nearly three and is tidied as each feature passes its peak. “I use a narrow little spade so I can work around the tulips.”...
...Prina’s deep mezzo and Invernizzi’s gleaming soprano blended to perfection in “Interrotte speranze”, which rises to a peak of intensity, if sung as strongly as it was here....
...He was so close to the performers that he could easily have been downed by a solid backhand swing with the viola. It must have been tempting. The music had been ruined....
...In 2010 they hit a peak of $10bn. For the past six years, however, J&J’s consumer business has been struggling, in part because of lacklustre sales of the baby range....
...Art has soared in an index of luxury investments — passing its 2008 pre-crisis peak and delivering a better return for the well-heeled collector than fine wine, jewellery, coins or antique furniture....
...The bank’s widely respected top team of chairman Alessandro Profumo and chief executive Fabrizio Viola have been cutting jobs and selling assets in an attempt to reverse nine consecutive quarters of losses...
...This vertiginous vision has propelled him to the peak of the contemporary art world....
...Mr Profumo expects bad loans to peak by the end of this year....
...That first album, The Velvet Underground & Nico, was produced by Tom Wilson (who had worked with Bob Dylan and Frank Zappa), although Andy Warhol, then in the peak of his early New York pomp, got the actual...
...Monte Dei Paschi’s shares have lost more than a fifth since January 15, and almost 95 per cent since their peak....
...Schäfer and the instrumentalists alike were marvellously delicate in much of it, but at peaks of volume the ensemble too often drowned the voice....
...Prayer is anything but a quiet supplication: Anderson, clearly at the peak of his powers, explores a wide range of sonority and rhapsodic turn-of-phrase, using the discipline of a single voice to potent...
...Fiorentina, or la Viola – an allusion to the team’s purple shirts – inspire fanatical support and the team’s ground, Franchi stadium, has national monument status....
...Verbier has a festival but it was designed to fill the town outside the peak season....
...Uchida embraces Beethoven’s emotional gravity and Olympian spirit, and plays at the peak of her considerable powers. 2....
...At present, contemporary art dealers are voicing much the same message as that of the post-peak brokers: it’s not an art market but a market of artists....
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