ies Outbreak Diaries: Calif. ICU Nurse Battles COVID-19 In Connecticut By www.npr.org Published On :: Sun, 03 May 2020 08:00:00 -0400 Cynthia Lam is a trauma nurse with experience in war zones. She's now traveled to Connecticut to help take care of COVID-19 patients. She shares her story as part of our Outbreak Diaries project. Full Article
ies CAC 40 Rallies As Countries Ease Lockdowns By www.rttnews.com Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 09:53:34 GMT French stocks rallied on Tuesday after Italy, Spain and France have all recorded their lowest daily spike in fatalities to date. Full Article
ies European Stocks Close Higher As Countries Relax Shutdown Restrictions By www.rttnews.com Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 17:36:22 GMT European markets ended with strong gains on Tuesday despite weak economic data, as investors made positive moves reacting to news that several countries across Europe have lifted restrictions that were in place due to the coronavirus pandemic. Full Article
ies CAC 40 Slides On Growth Worries By www.rttnews.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 09:29:19 GMT French stocks were moving lower on Wednesday as European business data disappointed and several Federal Reserve officials warned of more damage to the economy from the coronavirus. Full Article
ies Rose Liberto, North Carolina Nurse, Dies At 64 Of COVID-19 By www.npr.org Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 07:59:00 -0400 NPR's Scott Simon remembers Rose Liberto, a nurse at Atrium Health North East Hospital in Charlotte, N.C., who died of COVID-19. She was 64. Full Article
ies 'It's Unbelievable': Shutdown Of Philippines' Major Broadcaster Worries Many By www.npr.org Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 07:59:00 -0400 Government regulators in the Philippines ordered the major broadcaster ABS-CBN off the air. Critics worry the shutdown stifles an important source of information in the age of the coronavirus. Full Article
ies A Salon Owner Worries About The Lockdown's Impact On Her Business By www.npr.org Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 07:59:00 -0400 Christine Maccarone of New Jersey styles hair in nursing homes and hospitals. She's worried about her business surviving the state lockdown, and the well-being of her elderly clients. Full Article
ies Sensex, Nifty End Lower On Virus Worries By www.rttnews.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 11:15:00 GMT Indian shares ended lower on Thursday as coronavirus cases continued to rise in the country, putting pressure on an already slowing economy. India has been under the world's most extensive lockdown since late March. Full Article
ies German Companies See Decline In Sales In 2020 Due To Covid-19 Pandemic: DIHK By www.rttnews.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 13:07:59 GMT Most of the German companies expect decline in sales in the whole year of 2020 as coronavirus related crisis is expected to last longer, a survey from the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, or DIHK, showed Friday. Full Article
ies U.S. Wholesale Inventories Slump Slightly Less Than Expected In March By www.rttnews.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 14:32:25 GMT A report released by the Commerce Department on Friday showed wholesale inventories in the U.S. decreased by slightly less than expected in the month of March. The Commerce Department said wholesale inventories slumped by 0.8 percent in March after falling by 0.7 percent in February. Economists had expected inventories to tumble by 1.0 percent. Full Article
ies EÖTVÖS, P.: Tri sestry (Three Sisters) [Opera] (Chenez, David DQ Lee, Egorov, Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, D.R. Davies, N. Petersen) (OC986) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
ies MAGNARD, A.: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 (Freiburg Philharmonic, Bollon) (8.574083) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT The tragic death of Albéric Magnard, killed defending his home against German troops in 1914, brought a premature end to the composer’s life but not before he had completed four powerfully expressive symphonies (the Third and Fourth are on 8.574082). Symphony No. 1, with its strangely beautiful chorale, was first performed in 1893 but was then not heard again for a century. Symphony No. 2 caused a scandal at its premiere due to its length and complexity, but in its revised version offers radiant serenity and a dazzling confidence that reveals Magnard’s true compositional voice. Full Article
ies BEETHOVEN, L. van: Fugues and Rarities for String Quartet (Fine Arts Quartet) (8.574051) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT The string quartets of Beethoven are among the greatest works of their kind, but he composed other works for quartet which have been neglected. This album is dedicated to these intriguing rarities. Alongside the wild and monumental Grosse Fuge, in many ways the culmination of Beethoven’s achievements in the string quartet genre, this recording further displays his mastery of counterpoint by bringing to light brilliant yet forgotten original versions of his quartets Op. 18, No. 1 and Op. 131, plus six virtually unknown miniatures, including his Preludes and Fugues. Full Article
ies BEETHOVEN, L. van: Celebrate Beethoven - Symphonies and Orchestral Music (9.30209) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
ies SCHUMANN, R.: Arrangements for Piano Duet, Vol. 5 (Eckerle Piano Duo) - Symphonies Nos. 1 and 4 (8.572881) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Sun, 01 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT The insatiable demand for sheet music for domestic use in the 19th century meant that popular works were widely disseminated in piano duet form. Robert Schumann’s own arrangements of the ‘Spring’ Symphony (in collaboration with his wife Clara Schumann) and the Fourth Symphony balance playability and fidelity to the original with tremendous skill. Clara considered the Fourth Symphony to be ‘another work from the innermost depths of Robert’s soul’, a symphony that has become one of the most quintessential of the Romantic era. Full Article
ies WIDOR, C.-M.: Organ Symphonies (Complete), Vol. 2 - Nos. 3 and 4 (Rübsam) (8.574195) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT Charles-Marie Widor was a hugely influential and venerated musician in his day, and his innovative organ symphonies are both a pinnacle of the repertoire and a testament to his creative and technical mastery of the instrument. These spectacular works are in the grand Romantic manner, but Widor was keenly aware of his musical ancestry, referring to music of the past such as Bach’s St Matthew Passion in the opening of the Third Symphony. The Scherzo of the Fourth Symphony is one of Widor’s finest symphonic movements, exploring the organ’s sonic beauties. The original E major Scherzo from the Symphony No. 2, which Widor subsequently replaced with a Salve Regina (see Volume 1: 8.574161), can be heard on Track 6. Full Article
ies FONTANE, T.: Effi Briest (Unabridged) (NA0412) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT Often compared to Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina, Theodor Fontane’s Effi Briest tells the poignant story of a passionate and spontaneous young woman who becomes trapped in a dull and restrictive upper-class existence. Married at the tender age of 17 to Geert von Innstetten, an ambitious nobleman and civil servant nearly 20 years her senior, unworldly Effi is whisked away to the quiet town of Kessin, on the Baltic coast of Prussia, where she is left to raise a daughter alone while her husband travels for work. Effi’s loneliness drives her into the arms of Major Crampas, a cunning womaniser who tempts her into adultery and lets her live out her passions. The affair is soon ended, and almost forgotten, until fate and negligence resurrect it, with devastating results. Full Article
ies PIZAN, C. de: Book of the City of Ladies (The) (Unabridged) (NA0456) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT Shocked and distressed by a male writer’s vilification of women, Christine de Pizan has a powerful dreamlike vision in which she is visited by three personified Virtues: Reason, Rectitude and Justice. They tell her she has been chosen to write a book which will be like a city, housing virtuous women and protecting them from feminist attack. Heroines past and present form the foundations of this city—biblical and mythical heroines, ruling queens, Christian saints, and inventors are among them. Partly myth, partly fact, The Book of the City of Ladies is an extraordinary, pioneering and impassioned defence of women that set out to shatter medieval misogynist clichés, and serve to instil self-worth in its female readers of the time. Full Article
ies Podcast: The symphonies of Ludwig van Beethoven (Feb 13, 2020) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT BEETHOVEN, L. van: Celebrate Beethoven – Symphonies and Orchestral 9.30209 Raymond Bisha presents an overview of Beethoven’s nine symphonies as a companion resource to the first of Naxos’ monthly digital albums presenting the music of Beethoven in this 250th anniversary year of his birth. January’s compilation album (9.30209) spotlights the symphonic journey and stylistic progression from Beethoven&rs ...more Full Article
ies LUTOSLAWSKI, W.: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3 (Finnish Radio Symphony, Lintu) (ODE1332-5) By Published On :: May 2020 Review by Freya Parr BBC Music Magazine, May 2020 Full Article
ies KÕRVITS, T.: Hymns to the Nordic Lights / Silent Songs / Élégies of Thule (Vind, Estonian National Symphony, Joost) (ODE1349-2) By Published On :: May 2020 Review by Ivan Moody Gramophone, May 2020 Full Article
ies GOULD, G.: String Quartet / GULDA, F.: String Quartet in F-Sharp Minor (Acies Quartett) (Gramola99028) By Published On :: May 2020 Review by Guy Rickards Gramophone, May 2020 Full Article
ies WEIGL, K.: Symphonies Nos. 4 and 6 (Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic, Bruns) (C5385) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
ies BERNSTEIN, L.: Mass (Dyk, Vienna State Opera Children's Choir, Company of Music, Wiener Singakademie, Vienna Radio Symphony, D.R. Davies) (C5370) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Sun, 01 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
ies GODOWSKY, L.: Piano Music, Vol. 14 (Scherbakov) - 53 Studies on the Chopin Études, Vol. 1 (8.225372) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Sat, 01 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT Leopold Godowsky wrote his first Studies on the Chopin Études when he was barely 23 years old, and the complete cycle took some 20 years to finish. It remains one of the most extraordinary and technically demanding of all such works. It offered Godowsky—one of the greatest virtuosi of his age, but a haphazard teacher—an opportunity to resolve his innovative theories of keyboard technique. His exploration of developing the left hand in these studies remains revolutionary, and his ambition of ‘furthering the art of pianoforte playing’, triumphantly vindicated. Full Article
ies PASCULLI, A.: Fantasies on Themes by Giuseppe Verdi (Grazia, Orchestra Senzaspine, M. Parmeggiani, Ussardi) (TC841602) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
ies SCHUMANN, R.: Symphonies (Complete) (Dresden Staatskapelle, Thielemann) (NTSC) (708408) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
ies SCHUMANN, R.: Symphonies (Complete) (Dresden Staatskapelle, Thielemann) (Blu-ray, HD) (708504) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
ies BRAHMS, J.: Symphonies (Complete) / The Brahms Code (Documentary, 2019) (Bremen German Chamber Philharmonic, P. Järvi) (NTSC) (734908) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
ies BRAHMS, J.: Symphonies (Complete) / The Brahms Code (Documentary, 2019) (Bremen German Chamber Philharmonic, P. Järvi) (Blu-ray, HD) (735004) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
ies BEETHOVEN, L. van: Symphonies (Complete) / Missa Solemnis (Vienna Philharmonic, Dresden Staatskapelle, Thielemann) (4-Blu-ray Disc Box Set) (749904) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
ies GIULIANI, M.: Choix de mes fleurs chéries / Le Giulianate (Le Bouquet Emblématique) (Khouri) (CDS7855) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
ies FISCHER-DIESKAU, Dietrich: Lied Edition, Vol. 1 - ZELTER, C.F. / REICHARDT, J.F. / SPOHR, L. / WOLF, H. / PFITZNER, H. (C992205) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
ies CLARKE, N.: Mysteries of the Horizon / Dial 'H' for Hitchcock / Swift Severn's Flood (Vanhoorne, Grimethorpe Colliery Band, Thornton, Clarke, S.Smith) (8.574097) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT Nigel Clarke has always been fascinated by virtuosity and timbre—it is the brass band genre that has lent itself most to his passion for musical athleticism. Dial ‘H’ for Hitchcock is an imaginary film score in the film noir vein, complete with classic and chilling sound effects, while the heroic, brooding and violent Swift Severn’s Flood was inspired by a line from Shakespeare. Cornet concerto Mysteries of the Horizon examines the atmosphere of paintings by René Magritte, and Earthrise celebrates one of the most iconic photographs in history and the drama of the Apollo 8 mission. Full Article
ies BEETHOVEN, L. van: Symphonies Nos. 1-9 (Warsaw Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, Kord) (CDAccordACD075) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
ies BEETHOVEN, L. van: Symphonies (Complete) (Stuttgart Radio Symphony, Norrington) (SWR19525CD) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
ies PROKOFIEV, S.: Symphonies Nos. 3 and 6 (German Radio Saarbrücken-Kaiserslautern Philharmonic, Inkinen) (SWR19086CD) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
ies GROVEN, E.: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 (Kristiansand Symphony, Szilvay) (8.573871) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Many interwar Norwegian composers tried to create a new national music by combining elements of authentic folk music with new techniques. Eivind Groven was considered one of the most innovative composers in this quest, integrating the structure of folk dances from his rural upbringing into familiar formal principles. Both symphonies make use of techniques of so-called ‘progressive transformation’, which led fellow composer Arne Nordheim to declare: ‘While others made instrumentations of folk tunes, Groven created sounds, for example in his [two] symphonies which, in my opinion, are quite unique.’ Full Article
ies CHINA Folk Music of China, Vol. 6: Folk Songs of China's Tajik and Russian Minorities (NXW76093-2) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT This album features folk songs from the Tajik and Russian ethnic minority groups living in the western and northwestern areas of Xinjiang, China. These folk songs have an earthy beauty that is theirs alone. Many of the Tajik songs featured here are accompanied by the Rewap—an ancient stringed instrument made from mulberry trunks. The sound is similar to that of an acoustic guitar, but the tone is brighter and more elastic. Many of the Russian songs feature the Bayan (a type of accordion) and the Balalaika. Full Article
ies BELEVI, K.: Guitar Duos - Cyprian Rhapsodies Nos. 1-4 / Suite Chypre / Turkish Suite (Duo Tandem) (8.574081) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Kemal Belevi’s music is steeped in the colours and atmosphere of the eastern Mediterranean, and his aim is ‘to create beautiful music’ based on melodies and rhythms that have been absorbed from the folk music of Greece, Turkey and the Middle East. Belevi’s own arrangements of works such as the evocative Suite Chypre and the richly varied Cyprian Rhapsodies have significantly extended the repertoire for two guitars. The Duo Tandem are drawn towards this composer’s skilful modernity and his celebration of traditional heritage reimagined within the sound world of the classical guitar. Full Article
ies BEETHOVEN, L. van: Symphonies / Concertos / Overtures (Cologne Radio Symphony, South West German Radio Symphony, Baden-Baden, Rosbaud) (SWR19089CD) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
ies Reader and editor picks! Top Connect series content By www.ibm.com Published On :: 31 Oct 2017 04:00:00 +0000 Connecting to the cloud was big in 2016 for IBM middleware users and continues to be in 2017 as more environments move to the cloud. Learn which Connect series articles our readers and editor chose as their favorites from the developerWorks library. Full Article Middleware cloud
ies Roy from Vegas duo Siegfried and Roy dies By www.dailytelegraph.com.au Published On :: Magician Roy Horn, who was one half of the German duo "Siegfried & Roy," has died after contracting Covid-19, his spokesman says. Full Article
ies Aussies most screwed by pandemic By www.dailytelegraph.com.au Published On :: Hoping your boss quits to play golf and you get their job? Not going to happen. Promotions at work will be few and far between for millennials as older workers refuse to vacate their positions, gumming up the job market. Full Article
ies Fast food companies target isolation nation By www.dailytelegraph.com.au Published On :: The fast food industry has been accused of using marketing strategies to cash in on the pandemic lockdown. Full Article
ies Siegfried & Roy star dies from coronavirus By www.dailytelegraph.com.au Published On :: Roy Uwe Ludwig Horn, half of Las Vegas icons Siegfried & Roy, has died from complications stemming from COVID-19. Full Article
ies WAG: ‘Strong core’ of anti-vaxxing families in the NRL By www.dailytelegraph.com.au Published On :: Anti-vax WAG Taylor Winterstein has said that there is a “strong core of families” in the NRL who are also anti-vaxxers that Australians would be “seriously surprised” about. Full Article
ies Nov 2, 2019: New Brunswick Ugliest Province & Parks By www.cbc.ca Published On :: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 20:38:04 EDT Beauty is in the eye of the beholder when Peter Anthony and James Mullinger discuss if New Brunswick is the ugliest province. Then, Nikki Payne and Jon Steinberg draw a line in the sand over whether or not everyone should go to the park. Full Article Radio/The Debaters
ies The Spark Guide To Life, Episode Four: Groceries! By www.cbc.ca Published On :: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:58:58 EDT Tech at the Food Retail Lab, the impact of self checkout, grocery delivery services, and reducing food waste. Full Article Radio/Spark
ies The Spark Guide To Life, Episode Eight: Smart Cities By www.cbc.ca Published On :: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 15:07:33 EDT A special on Smart Cities. It's a big buzzword these days, especially as cities are bigger and denser than ever before. But there are competing visions for what it should be, who should run it, and how to protect your privacy. Full Article Radio/Spark