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DonzenacAurélien Pascal

Festival de la Vézère
Duport, Bach, Biber, Cassadó
Aurélien Pascal, Cello

HaapsaluJoshua

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Handel: Joshua
Haapsalu Festival Baroque Orchestra; Lodewijk van der Ree; Guy Cutting; Alvar Tiisler; Tuuri Dede; Maria Valdmaa

Six-Fours-les-PlagesHandel: Armida et Lucrezia

La Vague Classique
Handel
Jérôme Correas; Karine Deshayes; Jonathan Nubel; Patrick Oliva; Nicolas Crnjanski

MarvãoLate Night Special - Alon Sariel

Festival Internacional De Música De Marvão
Bach, Kuwahara, von Westhoff, Sariel, Albéniz, Matteis
Alon Sariel, Mandolin

BambergKlassiker Meisterwerke - Bamberg

© Music in Action
Elgar, Franck, Dvořák, Bach
Harriet Mackenzie; Nicola Eimer

LondonBoris Giltburg

Wigmore Hall
Bach, Liszt, Rachmaninov, Ravel
Boris Giltburg, Piano

MunichAlcinaNew production

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Handel: Alcina
Stefano Montanari; Johanna Wehner; Bavarian State Opera; Benjamin Schönecker; Ellen Hofmann; Bayerisches Staatsorchester; Saskia Kruse

EdinburghVivaldi Four Seasons and Grieg Piano Concerto by Candlelight

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Grieg, Vivaldi
The Piccadilly Sinfonietta; Victoria Lyon; Warren Mailley-Smith
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Spanning the ages from Dowland to Strauss at the BBC Proms

Sueye Park, John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic © BBC | Chris Christodoulou
Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic are persuasive in Also sprach Zarathustra, less so in Sibelius. Thomas Dunford soothes with Dowland and Purcell.

Lucie Horsch and Grigory Sokolov span the ages in Colmar

Lucie Horsch © Festival International de Colmar | Bertrand Schmitt
Lucie Horsch shows that her star is fully risen in Vivaldi and Telemann. Grigory Sokolov demonstrates why he has been in the top rank of pianists for many years.
****1
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Les Arts Florissants provide a stylish opening to Toronto Summer Music

Les Arts Florissants © Lucky Tang

Excellent use of movement and dance enhances stylish music-making in Toronto Summer Music’s opening night Charpentier double bill.

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Julia Lezhneva takes Il Giardino Armonico into extra time

Julia Lezhneva, Giovanni Antonini and Il Giardino Armonico © Tom Wright | Wigmore Hall
Extra time and penalties beckon as Julia Lezhneva displays rapidfire coloratura and endless stamina in an evening capped with seven encores. 
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Still waters run deep: the Britten Sinfonia at Wigmore Hall

Timothy Ridout and the Britten Sinfonia © Darius Weinberg | Wigmore Hall
Timothy Ridout plays Britten and Larcher in a Wigmore Hall programme with the Britten Sinfonia. 
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20 years of Giulio Cesare: McVicar staging revived at Deutsche Oper

Christophe Dumaux (Giulio Cesare) © Nancy Jesse
The classic production of Handel's opera proves its durability, featuring a strong cast led by Christophe Dumaux and Elena Tsallagova.
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Thunder and lightning in Spoleto can’t compete with on-stage fireworks

Roman Mejia and Tiler Peck in George Balanchine’s Tarantella © Damiano Mongelli
An evening of sublime dancing, the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, presented a Dance Marathon of electric performances, supreme quality and memories to cherish.
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ENBS and JCS: ready to take the profession by storm

Simon Tischler, Cameron Cinnamond-Bland, Kenshin Kimura, Keisuke Miyazaki in Variations for Four © Foteini Christofilopoulou
English National Ballet School and the John Cranko Schule join forces to deliver strong performances in a very diverse programme at the Linbury as part of the Next Generation Festival.
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