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Bruckner Symphony No 3 album review – Anima Eterna’s period instruments bring visceral drama
The review strongly praises Anima Eterna Brugge and conductor Pablo Heras-Casado’s recording of Bruckner’s original 1873 Third Symphony, calling it unusually explosive, visceral and dramatically detailed. It matters because the period-instrument approach is said to retain Bruckner’s scale and power while bringing out the work’s Wagnerian colour and near-operatic character. Bruckner reportedly dedicated the symphony…
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Ski Sunday host Chemmy Alcott suffers collapsed lung after jumping into lake
Ski Sunday presenter and former Olympic skier Chemmy Alcott has suffered a collapsed lung after landing badly while attempting a front flip from a five-metre platform into Lake Annecy in France. She was treated in hospital with a chest drain, and her experience highlights the risk of serious internal injury from jumping into water from…
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West Ham’s boardroom battle on eve of Championship season
As West Ham get ready to start their first league campaign outside the top flight since 2011-12, what’s going on in the boardroom?
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Here’s Where to Watch the Anthony Bourdain TV Shows and Documentary Online
Anthony Bourdain’s programmes “No Reservations” and “Parts Unknown”, alongside the documentary “Roadrunner”, are available to stream on HBO Max. The guide has been published amid renewed interest in Bourdain, nearly a decade after his 2018 death and ahead of the biopic “Tony”, which focuses on his early life. HBO Max subscriptions start at $10.99 a…
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Sheffield City Council announces plan to deal with travellers in Hillsborough Park
Several caravans, vans and cars are positioned close to the junction of Parkside Road and Middlewood Road
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Council announces plan to deal with travellers in popular park – thestar.co.uk
Council announces plan to deal with travellers in popular park thestar.co.uk
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Ryanair adds Google Cloud to its dual-cloud flight plan
Ryanair has signed a five-year agreement with Google Cloud, adding Google’s AI, productivity and infrastructure services alongside its recently renewed AWS contract. The airline says this dual-cloud strategy will improve resilience by allowing critical systems to switch providers during outages, supporting its ambition to carry 300 million passengers annually by 2034. Google Workspace and Google…
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Virgin Galactic postpones its new spaceship’s first commercial flight to 2027
Virgin Galactic has delayed the first commercial flight of its new Delta-class spaceship from late 2026 until February 2027 at the earliest. The postponement matters because the company paused its previous suborbital tourist service in 2024 to concentrate on this next-generation vehicle, making the Delta programme central to restarting regular flights. Chief executive Michael Colglazier…
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Travellers set up camp in Hillsborough Park
Travellers arrived in the park this week
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‘Far From the Trees’ Director Meritxell Colell on Turning Exile and Endangered Languages Into a ‘Body of Memory’
“Far From the Trees”, premiering in Locarno’s international competition, follows Adela, a 50-year-old Mexican sound artist recording endangered languages as she travels from the Peruvian jungle to the Andes. Her work continues that of her Catalan Republican grandfather, but news that her grandmother may be dying forces her to confront family silences, childhood memories and…