Mr. Andsnes so beautifully captures the sprightly operatic touches of the Concerto No. 18 in B flat (K. 456) that I found myself wishing some opera company would invite him to conduct "Le Nozze di Figaro".
George Manahan will conduct "Le Miracle de la Rose" for string quintet, winds, piano and clarinet solo; Christopher Nappi will play "Five Scenes from the Snow Country" for solo marimba, and Glen Cortese will lead a performance of "Apollo et Hyazinthus," one of the composer's most beguiling early works.
While other conductors -- most notably, Pierre Boulez -- conduct "Le Sacre" like a timeless classic, Mr. Thomas, like Bernstein, aptly treats it as a perpetual deflowering of musical innocence, an assault on the listener's virginity as well as on that of the Chosen One.
Meanwhile, at the La Jolla Symphony, he will oversee a Stravinsky-based season, conducting "Le Sacre du Printemps" and "Les Noces" along with works by Mozart, Verdi and David Lang.
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Apart from Le Pen and Fillon, the most recent opinion poll conducted by Le Monde newspaper and the Cevipof agency ranked all Socialist candidates behind the centrist Macron, a former investment banker, and even the far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
A recent poll conducted by Le Monde newspaper placed Hollande's approval rating at 4percentt.
Nonetheless, an IFOP opinion poll conducted for Le Monde after the Tricastin leaks showed that 67percentt of the French considered it vital to keep nuclear power in the country's energy mix, compared with 52percentt in 2002.
A poll conducted for Le Monde and published on Tuesday said she would get only about 30percentt of Mr. Fillon's voters in the second round — not nearly enough, according to Joël Gombin, a National Front specialist at the University of Picardy Jules Verne, who said she must get more than 50percentt of former Fillon supporters to have a shot at winning the presidency.
PSG, along with Real Madrid, have been heavily linked with a move for the player at the end of the season, speculation fuelled by an interview the 25-year-old conducted with Le Parisien last month in which he declared his admiration for the Ligue 1 champions.
The German newspaper Der Spiegel has reported that the French have more confidence in Merkel than they have in Sarkozy, according to a survey conducted by Le Parisien.
