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Framing these pieces were two masterpieces from World War II, Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem somehow appropriately muffled in delivery, needing more weighty inexorability in the Lacrymosa and less unaccountable tonebending from wind solos in the Dies Irae, and Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements punchily rhythmic, but missing a touch of neo-classical lightness for contrast.

Finbarr's version was a triumph of crisp crumb, punchily seasoned sheep innards and a yielding egg.

His punchily written blog on Live Journal (navalny.livejournal.com) and Twitter account @navalny are also among Russia's most read.

Unlike many business information books, Effective Business In The Gulf: Master leadership skills for greater success does not overstay its welcome and moves punchily from a quick history of the Gulf's business landscape to the challenge of dealing with a multi-cultural workforce and how to best manage people in an oftentimes opaque and fast- growth landscape.

A Parma ham sandwich ([pounds sterling]4.60) is just that: ham (sweet, salty, silky, punchily porcine, melt-in-the-mouth) between two pieces of insanely good focaccia farcita flatbread.

At Bonhams Contemporary Art Sale on 13 October, however, the vast--and punchily estimated--collage of magazine covers by Alighiero Boetti looked just too expensive at 1.2m [pounds sterling] and failed to sell.