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At last, the Proms will welcome live audiences back to the Royal Albert Hall.
Here’s our selection of the best concerts of the 2021 season
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In this regularly updated guide, our critic recommends the best classical and
opera releases of the year – and suggests a few to avoid
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The ‘Scottish Tenor’ proved he can still blend the middle- and high-brow with
this recital of Britten, Shakespeare and Sondheim songs
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Recorded at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 1974, this concert finds the great
bassist and composer in joyous, daring form
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David Pountney’s inventive production puts a Stalinist spin on Rimsy-Korsakov’s
first opera
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To widen the appeal of the arts is always sensible – but cold statistics and
essentialist categories are patronising, unhelpful tools
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This performance of Beethoven’s opera, in the concert version, was an ardent,
energised evening of light and shade, despair and joy
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Richard Strauss’s complex opera was brought to sumptuous life in this bold
production, dominated by a magnificent Derrick Ballard
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Operatic composition’s leading lady on revitalising Virgil, mixing classical and
pop, and refusing to harbour identity-based ‘grievances’
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From cat pianists to dancing bears, our fascination with animal musicality is
ancient. But do beasts know their Beethoven from their Bach?
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Symphony Hall in Birmingham resounded to Saint-Saëns and Debussy – it wasn’t
flawless, but it was manna from Heaven either way
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Our critics pick the best of this summer’s musical offerings, from Opera North’s
Fidelio to Liam Gallagher at Reading and Leeds Festival
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This new production of Rossini’s zany classic makes hay with the obviousness of
the caricatures on which it’s built
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The ‘immersive virtual world’ on offer in the Linbury Theatre promises
Shakespearean magic, but can’t match the poetry of the real world
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Novelist and musician Amit Chaudhuri leads us towards a different way of hearing
and playing
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This year’s Festival ran online, thanks to the musicians who performed streamed
sets for free. It wasn’t perfect, but it had plenty of soul
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The 17-year-old percussionist Fang Zhang has a bright future. But his talent was
forged in gruelling training that lasted until 4am
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Well-known arias are transformed in the Royal Opera House’s digital short film
series, 8bit, with the best touching both mind and heart
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His revolutionary sound defined the Renaissance era. So how did we forget this
Copernicus of music?
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A charming book reconstructs the European wanderings over three centuries, from
Cremona to the Black Sea, of a battered, beautiful violin
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From Bach’s Passions to Poulenc’s Motets, Holy Week has inspired more great
music than any other subject
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