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Top Films: w/c Saturday, January 31

Top films to watch week beginning Saturday, January 31

The Independent UK

Warren Buffett’s blind spot: Did the digital economy leave him behind?

Warren Buffett posted pedestrian investment returns over the last years of his career, due largely to a failure to grasp the potential of Big Tech.

Fortune

Radu Lupu: The Unreleased Recordings album review – treasures from the vaults are a wonderful surprise

This six-disc collection to mark the late pianist’s 80th birthday is full of treats and includes rare ventures into Chopin and Copland, along with Lupu’s legendary rendition of Bartók at Leeds in 1969

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Protein Dance: The Magic Flute review – charming family show conjured out of Mozart opera

The classic quest story is stylishly simplified for a young audience and an energetic cast of just four, choreographed by Luca Silvestrini to a melodious Frank Moon score

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m all for instilling more playfulness’: the unusual musical world of Stephen Prina

The uniquely irreverent artist, whose work includes everyone from Mozart to Sonic Youth, has a career retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art

The Guardian - US

The 10 Best Biopics of All Time

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The Mary Sue

WDR SO Cologne Chamber Players: The Romantic Room, Chamber Works by Spohr album review – plenty to discover

The early 19th century German composer wrote a prodigious amount of music, little of it known today. This rewarding collection features his larger-scale chamber works

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Mozart’s Women: A Musical Journey review – Lauren Laverne helms an insight-free night that goes out with a bang

Coliseum, LondonIf you wanted to learn about the composer’s female influences, you would have been disappointed – but the arias eventually built to an electric climax

The Guardian - UK

Vienna Philharmonic/ Welser-Möst review – mighty ensemble strike gold with Bruckner

The Austrian legends glided through Mozart and Tchaikovsky but found grand and powerful direction in Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony

The Guardian - UK

Mozart: Six String Quintets album review – deep understanding of these under-appreciated works

Spunicunifait (their name taken from a nonsense word used by Mozart) perform these six quintets with flexibility and easy athleticism

The Guardian - UK

"He's the Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart of the riff": Gibson salutes Tony Iommi in star-studded new film series

Iommi: The Godfather Of Heavy Metal features interviews with Brian May, Slash, Dave Mustaine, Kirk Hammett, Scott Ian and more

Metal Hammer

Royal Concertgebouw / Mäkelä review – Proms showcase legendary orchestra and its star signing

The masterly Amsterdam ensemble were at the Proms for two concerts with their Chief Conductor Designate Klaus Mäkelä. In works by Berio, Mahler, Mozart, Prokofiev and Bartók there was dazzling playing and immaculate attention to detail

The Guardian - UK

David Rendall obituary

Tenor who sang at La Scala and Glyndebourne and although dogged by misfortune lived life to the full

The Guardian - UK

La Clemenza di Tito review – Emelyanychev and SCO spark magic with enthralling Mozart

With a luxury cast bringing anguish, believability and vocal perfection to Mozart’s opera of love and divided loyalty, this concert performance was flawless

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Google DeepMind's new AI is nearly here, finally giving us an interactive world that runs at 720p, 24fps, and only remembers what you did for 1 minute

Impressive, I guess, but also, why?

International Business Times

Seals Sing 'Otherworldly' Songs Structured Like Nursery Rhymes

When male leopard seals dive down into icy Antarctic waters, they sing songs structured like nursery rhymes in performances that can last up to 13 hours, scientists said Thursday.

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Only True History Fans Can Get All 28 Of These ‘Which Came First?’ Questions Right

Did Mozart live before Beethoven? Or was it the other way around?We’ve all learned about big events, famous people, and important inventions. When it comes to remembering the timeline of these things - well, that’s a tricky part. Sometimes the order is super obvious.

The Independent UK

Renée Fleming makes directing debut with wrestling-themed 'Così fan tutte' at Aspen Music Festival

Renée Fleming has made her directorial debut with Mozart's *Così fan tutte* at the Aspen Music Festival

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The Guardian - UK

Sir Roger Norrington obituary

Acclaimed conductor and pioneer of the early music revival with a dogmatic aversion to vibrato

The Guardian - UK

Pioneering period instrument performances: Five key Roger Norrington recordings

Five essential recordings by the trailblazing conductor who has died aged 91

The Guardian - UK

Roger Norrington: a maverick, an irresistible firebrand and a musical visionary

The conductor, whose historically informed evangelism helped transform the classical music world, has died. Tom Service remembers a man who looked to the past to find a fresh and thrilling present.

MusicRadar

“Uptown Girl… it could’ve been a Mozart piece”: Billy Joel reveals the classical music origins of one of his biggest hits in new documentary trailer

“My own history as a musician started with me hearing classical music,” he says

The Independent UK

The 12-year-old boy who set up a charity for musicians to play songs to animals stuck in shelters

While the calming effect of music on humans is well-documented, its precise role in animal behaviour remains a subject of ongoing research.

The Guardian - UK

A man of sense and wide sensibilities, Alfred Brendel was simply the pianist of pianists

His technique was of the highest order, his performances unmatched – but it was always at the service of the music, not of his own reputation

Evening Standard

The Mozartists at the Wigmore Hall: a flirty, playful take on the composer's works

4/5 This plan to follow the life of Mozart through his works is ambitious and soulful

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