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Royal Philharmonic at Cadogan Hall – Adam Hickox conducts Bacewicz and Vaughan Williams, Liya...

An optimistic call to arms, Grażyna Bacewicz’s 1943 Overture – her first orchestral work in an output including four symphonies and seven violin concertos –

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CD Review: Janacek Mr Broucek Rattle LSO Live DSD512 - The Classical Source

The world of opera has produced some bizarre, well-nigh incomprehensible plots, but few rival Mr Broucek (in Czech a small beetle). Composed between 1908-18

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London Philharmonic at Royal Festival Hall - Marie Jacquot conducts Franck, Kian Soltani plays Dv...

With no overture to open the evening, we began straight away with an eloquent reading of an evergreen. Kian Soltani has already recorded this greatest of all

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CD Review: Gounod Faust Cluytens HDTT - The Classical Source

Andre Cluytens recorded Faust in 1953 and 1958; the latter in stereo. Both shared the three main principals. Cluytens keeps the score moving, although he lets

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Rhythm Riot - English National Ballet – Sadler’s Wells – Review | The Classical Source

English National Ballet’s latest mixed bill is a somewhat ho-hum affair, a two-hour triptych comprising an undisputed masterpiece by a master choreographer

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Britten’s War Requiem with the LPO and Edward Gardner – Southbank Centre, London - Royal Festival...

A full house greeted this season-opening concert with palpable enthusiasm and, wonder of wonders, a decent hiatus of quiet contemplation before the closing

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CD Review: CRQ 706 Pierre Monteux On Tour: Debussy Fetes, New York 1944, Schubert 9, Moscow 1956,...

The great French conductor Pierre Monteux (1875-1964) was something of a wanderer. After starting out as a viola player, he worked with, amongst others, the

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CD Review: John Wilson - English String Music Volume 3 (Sinfonia of London) - The Classical Source

 The third collection of English String Music from this source is as outstanding as its predecessors, albeit more distanced from the famous Sir John

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CD Review: Faces & Places - The Classical Source

Like many other modern composers Josemari Hernandez composes accessible, largely tonal, as opposed to confrontational, music.

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BBC Proms 2026- Last Night (from another Reviewer) – Review - The Classical Source

For several years The Last Night of the Proms has excited controversy, due to what might be considered the overt nationalism of Rule Britannia and Land of

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BBC Proms 2026 – The Last Night – BBC Singers, Symphony Chorus and Orchestra with Sakari Oramo –...

Almost 6,000 promenaders packed the hall for a Last Night doing two jobs at once: seeing off the 2026 season in customary style, and finding room for grief.

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BBC Proms 2026 -  A ‘Period’ Mahler 9 – Review - The Classical Source

A late start and a single work defined this penultimate concert of the season. Unlike the so-called ‘Gershwin’ Rhapsody in Blue advertised at a previous Prom,

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BBC Proms 2026 - 1936 Revisited – Review - The Classical Source

This was a modest, even self-effacing event with which to celebrate the orchestra’s 90th birthday but room had to be found for the pop proffered later in the

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BBC Proms 2026 - Rattle conducts Schumann – Review - The Classical Source

It’s 50 years since (now Sir) Simon Rattle first conducted at the Proms (though his first Royal Albert Hall appearance was a year later, in 1977). He has

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CD Review: George Szell Live in Cleveland & Helsinki - The Classical Source

Unlike today, back in the 1960s the world was awash with great conductors. Several of whom led great orchestras, moulded in their image. Of these, none were

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BBC Proms 2026 - John Wilson Conducts English String Music – Review - The Classical Source

Earlier this season, John Wilson confirmed his orchestra’s special status with an extravagant realisation of Respighi’s Roman trilogy. Here, in the last of

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BBC Proms 2026 - Martha Argerich Plays Beethoven...again – Review - The Classical Source

The ‘novelty’—to use Henry Wood’s historic term for unfamiliar fare—came first. The music of Louise Farrenc (née Jeanne-Louise Dumont; 1804–1875) was entirely

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Bampton Classical Opera – Grétry’s Zemira e Azor (‘Beauty and the Beast’) – The Orangery Theatre,...

This year’s offering by Bampton Classical Opera – Grétry’s Zemira e Azor – could almost be an allegory for the present situation in Iran, albeit that in this

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BBC Proms 2026 - Vaughan Williams Revisited – Review - The Classical Source

It is not just at the Proms that Vaughan Williams’s star is in the ascendant, whether or not you trace the phenomenon to the special impact of Andrew Manze’s

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BBC Proms 2026 – Berlin Philharmonic plays Beethoven and Scriabin – Review - The Classical Source

It’s a fairly unusual concert when a major work by Beethoven is by far the less maverick and more lyrical item, yet that was the case here with the Violin

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