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THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR: ATHENS, SPARTA AND THE STRUGGLE FOR GREECE
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THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR: ATHENS, SPARTA AND THE STRUGGLE FOR GREECE by Nigel Bagnall Random House, £12.99, pp. 318, ISBN 0712698817 * £11.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848
A soldier's angle of observation
There was a chilling moment on television a few years ago when Ian St John, the former Liverpool and Scotland striker, turned on Jim Rosenthal, the ITV presenter who'd never played football at top level. 'Do ye know football?' he said mockingly.
Well, the late Field Marshal Sir Nigel Bagnall, who joined the Army in 1945 and retired as Chief of the General Staff in 1988, certainly knew ...
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Classical Music: Meistersinger Chicago
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...conduct special performances of Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg being recorded live this...might not have been able to record Die Meistersinger - his first Wagner opera recording...prevents him from conducting an entire Meistersinger in one evening. Thus, the opera unfolded...
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Wagner's Meistersinger: Performance, History, Representation
Magazine article from: German Quarterly
; ...Vazsonyi, Nicholas, ed. Wagner's Meistersinger: Performance, History, Representa...scholarship on Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von N[omicron]rnberg. Many of...Kupfer insists in an interview that Meistersinger must be staged at once "in his tory...
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`Meistersinger': A Voice From the Past, at Last; Thomas Stewart's 1967 Record Released; Out Ahead of the Pack on Schubert
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...role of Hans Sachs in Wagner's "Die Meistersinger" for Deutsche Grammophon, baritone...Gramophone magazine) as the best "Meistersinger" on records. But it had a long and...ending. In 1967, when he recorded "Meistersinger" in Munich, with Rafael Kubelik conducting...
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A profoundly enriching `Meistersinger'
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NUERNBERG Opera by Wagner Presented...in a performance of Wagner's "Meistersinger"? The Metropolitan Opera's new...conducting of James Levine. "Die Meistersinger" is a wonderful place to be because...
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'Die Meistersinger' -- neatly trimmed down and not missing a beat; Brainerd's singing anchors opera.(DAILY DATEBOOK)(Opera Review)
Newspaper article from: San Francisco Chronicle
; ...but even by those standards "Die Meistersinger" is a whopper -- a five-hour celebration...doctrinaire Wagnerian would claim that "Meistersinger" has no flab. What was left was a...company taking on a behemoth like "Meistersinger" is not as outlandish as it seems...
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Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Magazine article from: Fanfare
; WAGNER Die Meistersinger von Nrnberg * Karl Bhm, cond...see Bhm's stereo 1968 Bayreuth Meistersinger so well presented, both in terms...Fanfare 31:2). The present Meistersinger is a tremendous account, if not...
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
Magazine article from: Opera News
; WAGNER: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg * Della...of the season's Meistersinger. That set, conducted...four of the minor Meistersingers repeated their roles...its lower-voiced Meistersingers. Following Erich...the small part of Meistersinger Hermann Ortel. ROBERT...
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Eine geheime Botschaft in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg und Parsifal: Jüdisches, Christliches und Antisemitisches in zwei Werken von Richard Wagner
Magazine article from: German Quarterly
; ...einen mythologischen Stoff gewhlt. Die Meistersinger sind dagegen in Nrnberg historische...Gehalt ins Mystische weist. Dennoch: Meistersinger und Parsifal haben eine gemeinsame...Buhnenwerke (Wagner spricht mit Ausnahme der Meistersinger nicht mehr von Opern, sondern von...
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`Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg'
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; `Die Meistersinger von Nurn- berg' at the Civic Opera...s performance of Wagner's "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg" had a new tenor...looked ill-at-ease onstage. The "Meistersinger" sets were as confusing as ever...
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger
Magazine article from: Opera News
; WAGNER: Die Meistersinger Della Casa, Malaniuk...are the two choicest Meistersingers from postwar Bayreuth...is one of but three Meistersinger recordings known to...No other recorded Meistersinger offers such incisive...
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