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Karajan and Mozart were both born in Salzburg, but that seems to be about all they have in common. Karajan's readings of his countryman's ineffable music have always been heavy and rhythmically sluggish, bereft of joy or bounce. His new recording, a warm-up for his production of the opera in Salzburg this spring and summer, never comes to fiery, diabolical life. It wastes the . talents of Ramey and Battle, and features an excruciating performance by Tomowa-Sintow as the hectoring, humorless Donna Anna. Far more harmonious is Battle's recording from her 1984 recital at Karajan...
...rebels have been itching for an all-out brawl with the insurgents. Few doubt that dissidents in the military still present the gravest threat to Aquino's political survival, despite several failed coup attempts in the past year. "What you have seen so far was nothing more than a warm-up of the jayvees," warns a disgruntled colonel. "You haven't seen the first team in action. They want a government that is prepared to lead them in a full-scale war to break the back of the insurgency...
...just a routine warm-up drill, a three-on-one," Devin explained. "I was coming across the crease to cut down the angle, and as I moved I felt my knee...
...Crimson was expected to start John Devin in goal last night. But the junior netminder pulled his knee in warm...
Taking a few warm-up pieces...