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Proms Saturday Matinee 2: Sarah Connolly and Britten Sinfonia's magnificent, terrifying passion

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Reviewed at Cadogan Hall, London on 3 August 2013
Britten, Prelude and Fugue for 18 strings, Op.29
Holst, St Paul's Suite, Op.29 no.2
Berkeley, Four Poems of St Teresa of Avila, Op.27
Tippett, Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli
Britten, Phaedra, Op.93
Dame Sarah Connolly, Mezzo-soprano
Sian Edwards, Conductor
At Aldeburgh Festival, Nicholas Daniel plays the Pied Piper of Cool
****1
Britten Sinfonia ablaze on the BBC Proms’ hottest night
*****
Donizetti's L’esule di Roma: a Roman triumph for Opera Rara
****1
Love and death in Scotland: Mercadante’s Il proscritto
***11
Holst's Sāvitri: near-death experience in the Barbican
****1
Colin Currie conducts Reich/Richter at the Barbican
****1
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