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Yuri Gagarin’s 1961 space flight gave him a lifelong obsession with ‘how to translate the idea of the cosmos into a gigantic ambient sound’
Péter Eötvös, who has died aged 80, was a Hungarian conductor and composer whose opera Love and Other Demons, based on Gabriel Gárcia Márquez’s novel, received its premiere at Glyndebourne in 2008; it was not his first experience of the Sussex opera house, having conducted the legendary Anja Silja there in Janacek’s The Makropulos Case in 2001.
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Peenemünde, formerly the development site of ballistic missiles and V1 and V2 rockets, was built in 1936 in order to help Hitler in his quest to control the world. Peenemünde: a dreaded place where thousands of people were enslaved and murdered under the orders of future chief of booster development at NASA Wernher von Braun, and military advisor General Walter Dornberger.
Bernard Haitink was the conductor of more than 450 recordings and his repertoire ranged widely from Bartók and Shostakovich to Mozart, Janáček and Debussy. Here are some of his finest moments on record