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Performer: Oliver Barlow

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Funereal Fauré and Gounod from Equilbey, accentus and Insula

Insula, accentus, John Brancy and Laurence Equilbey © Mark Allan | Barbican
Gorgeous French music, polished choral singing and excellent soloists are marred by an overwhelmingly dark timbre and unsympathetic video.
***11
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A Glyndebourne Dream that works its sinister magic

Tim Mead (Oberon) and Liv Redpath (Tytania) © Glyndebourne Productions Ltd | Photo: Tristram Kenton
A strong revival cast, conducted by Dalia Stasevska, demonstrate why Sir Peter Hall's 1981 vintage staging of Britten’s A Midsummer Night's Dream is such a classic. 
****1
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Ice but not much fire from Hannu Lintu and the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Hannu Lintu © BBC | Mark Allan
Nothing quite ordinary or indeed comforting here, the heavy mixture of acid colouring in Lindberg, Ustvolskaya and Stravinsky not tempered by any opulence in Rachmaninov.
***11
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