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Opera
Messiah makes an impact however it is sung. But what's so special about an oratorio written in a rush and using recycled material? Claudia Pritchard explains
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Classical Music
Soloists and instrumental ensembles take to the stage once more in music familiar and unfamiliar
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Classical Music
Composer of film, TV soundtracks and concert works talks to Claudia Pritchard about music in schools, a brand new work, and the cost to creativity of leaving the EU
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Classical Music
Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison is celebrated in song, in a new piece by Joanna Marsh, performed with Beethoven and Vaughan Williams
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Classical Music
Handel made London his home, and not so far from where he lived his music is still played in the manner he would have known
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Festival
Get to know an important Chinese scholar, spend a night at the Chinese opera, or get inside the life of the German pianist and composer Clara Schumann
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Classical Music
The most moving music ever written, the most atmospheric classical music venue in London... this is an event to catch
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Classical Music
Monteverdi's atmospheric Vespers, Handel opera and heavenly music by JS Bach dominate this year's programme
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Classical Music
The first performance in modern times of words which were intended to encourage the faithful
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Classical Music
Easter music begins with a week of spiritual and contemplative works
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Classical Music
There is a whole world of chamber music beyond Mozart and Schubert, as this enterprising series illustrates, with the best of both
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Classical Music
Christmas music in London means two weeks of ethereal and earthier song at one of the capital's most atmospheric venues
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Classical Music
A fascinating insight into the mind of the prodigious composer through six of his piano concertos, explained and performed
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Classical Music
The 20th century was a golden age for English music, as this three-day festival devoted to its leading lights demonstrates, in quintessentially English surroundings
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Classical Music
While the wealthy were travelling throughout Europe, composers and musicians were kept busy entertaining them. Their legacy is at the core of a new series of concerts
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Classical Music
Sensational violinist Nicola Benedetti and her trio perform masterpieces by Schubert and Tchaikovsky
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Classical Music
Tenor Ian Bostridge joins the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for the first concert of their 30th anniversary season, performing Handel and Telemann