Word: splendid
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...heavily resonant acoustic of the Church in which the recording was made (St. Bartholemew's in Orford, Suffolk) seems inappropriate to the drawing-room setting for which the Canzonettas would originally have been destined. But this detracts only slightly from the overall listening experience. Watkinson's voice is splendid, negotiating passage that, originally written for castrati, are at times unsettlingly low. Wilson's accompaniment on the pianoforte rather than the modern piano is unexpected. However, right from the opening measures of the cantata, it seems to fit perfectly, illustrating ably the merits of performance on "period" instruments. Overall, this...
...days after the army forced the resignation of President Chadli Bendjedid, provoking the dissolution of parliament and cancellation of the elections that had promised to hand Muslim fundamentalists a legislative majority, Mohammed Boudiaf was sworn in as head of a military-backed, five-member Council of State. Boudiaf has splendid credentials -- he is nonpartisan and a hero of Algeria's war for independence from France -- but real power within the ruling council is likely to fall to the country's Defense Minister, Major General Khaled Nezzar...
...Brian Bedford), the English Macbeth, a man with no life save work and drinking; Edwin Forrest (Victor Garber), the American Macbeth, a compulsive seducer; and John Ryder (Zeljko Ivanek), dogsbody to Macready and fill-in Macduff for Forrest, who comes alive only when being someone else. All three are splendid, as is Jack O'Brien's staging of the Broadway season's first substantial new American play. W.A.H.III
...international community, however far they may be from the ideals of a Western democracy. As a U.S. official ruefully admitted, "Gamsakhurdia won an overwhelming expression of support in the May election. On the other hand, he was not running a democratic state." Self- determination may be a splendid principle, but the reality can be very different...
...Blessing's splendid musing on the most influential play in the English language and on the tawdry modern phenomenon of the mediagenic politician. From Shakespeare's shaky dramaturgy to the meaning of life and afterlife, from the enigma of TV to the hollowness of the man of action, a thrilling welter of & ideas, aphorisms, historical allusions and wry wit, robustly staged by Des McAnuff and cunningly acted by Daniel Jenkins...