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GlasgowOpening Night: Beethoven's Violin Concerto

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Beethoven, Zemlinsky
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Ryan Wigglesworth; Bomsori Kim; Miah Persson; James Atkinson
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Comic overkill stunts Handel’s Giulio Cesare at Grange Festival

Tim Mead (Giulio Cesare) and Hugh Cutting (Tolomeo) © Richard Hubert Smith
Despite excellent vocal performances, David Alden’s production of Giulio Cesare in Egitto aims at irreverence but overplays the comedy.
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Classics at Klosters from Onofri and the Munich Chamber Orchestra

Soloists Anna Stéphany, Judith Spiesser, Werner Güra and James Atkinson © Benno Hunziker
Opening Klosters Music, Enrico Onofri proves that Classical-era music can still work well seen from a later perspective. 
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Musical performances keep WNO's new Così afloat

Egor Zhuravskii (Ferrando) and Sophie Bevan (Fiordiligi) © Elliott Franks
Max Hoehn takes Così‘s subtitle, La scuola degli amanti (The School for Lovers), and connects it to Monty Python’s sex education sketch in The Meaning of Life. What larks, eh? 
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Bernard Labadie, l’OSM et La Création de Haydn : genèse d’un succès

Bernard Labadie dirige La Création à Montréal © Antoine Saito
Limpidité, modération, expressivité : c’est à cette trinité de principes qu'a semblé se vouer le chef, à la tête d'une très belle interprétation de l'oratorio de Haydn à Montréal.
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The Enchanted Island a rich and strange Baroque confection

Rather than compiling a Top Ten of Baroque Hits, The Enchanted Island amounts to much more than a gallimaufry of choice gobbets, seasoned with French galenterie.
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BBC’s New Generation Artists celebrates 25 years

Clockwise from top left: Emma Rawicz, Elizaveta Ivanova, Helen Charlston, Julius Asal © BBC
BBC Radio 3 is celebrating 25 years of the New Generation Artists scheme with a special day of programming on Monday 3rd March.