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...Yeah, cheddar to you, Mister Wang," responds Paul ("Gazza") Gascoigne, a forced smile lingering on his lips. "Cheddar and bloody brie...
...SIGNED. PAUL GASCOIGNE, 35, former star English footballer, a one-year contract as player?coach for the Chinese second-division team Gansu Tianma (Heavenly Horses). Better known as Gazza (Jia Jia in Chinese), Gascoigne has been plagued by weight and drinking problems in recent years and failed to sign with an English club this season. He will move to his new club's home, Lanzhou, near the Gobi Desert, this month. "It's a great challenge," he said...
From the first peremptory drum roll of Rossini's La Gazza Ladra overture, it is clear that the brilliance of Celibidache (cheh-lee-bee-JaA-keh) is no myth. The performance is almost preternaturally nuanced, unfolding with a sure sense of logic and purpose. Even during the patented Rossini crescendos, Celibidache maintains a calm yet iron control, putting the listener in mind of Richard Strauss's dictum that only the audience should sweat at a concert, never the conductor. In the first section of Debussy's Iberia, Celibidache's unerring grasp of detail evokes a Spanish...
...firmly schooled in "the great Viennese classics." Alongside Veteran Composer Howard Hanson's Bold Island Suite, Szell offered Haydn's Symphony No. Q2 ("Oxford"), Brahms's Violin Concerto in D (with Erica Morini as the excellent soloist), and Rossini's bubbly overture to La Gazza Ladra...
...recordings, it is some of the finest sound to be heard on records. Cook's first symphonic releases include two potpourris: Masterpieces of the Dance, with such old war horses as the Emperor Waltz and Danse Macabre, and Masterpieces from the Theater, with music from Carmen, La Gazza Ladra and Euryanthe. The major effort is Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, which, despite a too-speedy finale, is the best available LP of the great work. All are played by the excellent Orchestral Society of Boston conducted by Willis Page...