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An Anatomy of Melancholy at The Pit Theatre, Barbican review: deeply moving
- 4/5 Nobody articulated the essence of melancholy better than John Dowland, and nobody could give it more eloquent voice than countertenor Iestyn Davies
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Classical home listening: Isata Kanneh-Mason; Fretwork with Iestyn Davies; Mirga at the Proms
Classical home listening: Isata Kanneh-Mason; Fretwork with Iestyn Davies; Mirga at the PromsKanneh-Mason’s second album is a delight; Davies and Fretwork excel in early baroque German music; and the pick of Proms week one Isata Kanneh-Mason. Photograph: John Davis
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Classical home listening: Rodelinda, Miloš and more
Classical home listening: Rodelinda, Miloš and more. Lucy Crowe and Iestyn Davies lead the English Concert’s first-rate account of Handel’s 1725 opera. And two premiere recordings from the star guitarist
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The week in classical: back to Bach’s Passions with the OAE, Oxford Bach soloists and more
The week in classical: back to Bach’s Passions with the OAE, Oxford Bach soloists and moreAvailable onlineAn abundance of virtual Easter offerings this year included Mark Padmore’s Evangelist directing the OAE, and a powerful performance from Oxford ‘Wistful authority’: Mark Padmore as the Evangelist, directing the OAE’s St John Passion. Photograph: Zen Grisdale
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Classical highlights: concerts and operas to stream this Christmas
Classical highlights: concerts and operas to stream this Christmas. Concert halls and opera houses are once again closed across most of the UK, but it need not be a Christmas without music. Here’s our pick of the best streams and downloads to brighten your holiday period.
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The week in classical: Ariodante; Royal Northern Sinfonia; BCMG; HCMF; Bath Mozart festival – review
The week in classical: Ariodante; Royal Northern Sinfonia; BCMG; HCMF; Bath Mozart festival – review. Assorted online platforms/Radio 3Handel’s Ariodante makes a captivating return to Covent Garden, while necessity is the mother of invention from Gateshead to uprooted Bath and Huddersfield
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Iestyn Davies/Elizabeth Kenny review – sweet melancholy and liquid beauty
Iestyn Davies/Elizabeth Kenny review – sweet melancholy and liquid beauty. Wigmore Hall/BBC Radio 3The countertenor brought quiet eloquence and wonderful evenness to his Wigmore recital; lutenist Kenny played with beautifully understated dexterity
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Live classical music concerts to return to Radio 3 from Wigmore Hall
The BBC has announced a date for the return of live classical music to Radio 3.Leading musicians including Dame Mitsuko Uchida, Mark Padmore and Iestyn Davies will perform a concert series - the first since lockdown - from Marylebone’s Wigmore Hall, daily from June 1.
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Live classical music to return to BBC Radio 3
Performers will adhere to social distancing guidelines, the BBC said.
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Home listening: reimagining Mozart’s operatic career
Watch a trailer for Libertà.• Even great composers go through tricky patches. In the period before the great trilogy of Figaro, Don Giovanni and Cosí, Mozart became stuck on several projects that remained unfinished but contain some superb surviving music. His incomplete operas L’oca del Cairo and Lo sposo deluso have now been woven into a sort of postmodern tapestry in three scenes by the ingenious Raphaël Pichon with his ensemble Pygmalion on Libertà! (Harmonia Mundi). Magpie-like, Pichon also
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50 best things to see at the Fringe and Edinburgh International Festival – from art to books and ballet
From Eddie Izzard’s Great Expectations to a Chinese Rite of Spring, from Grayson Perry to Götterdämmerung – our critics pick the best of all the festivals coming to Edinburgh this August The best comedy shows at the Fringe Ahir Shah One of the sharpest young political comedians in the country. His new hour is certain to be a hot ticket. Monkey Barrel Comedy (0131 460 8421), Thurs-Aug 25 Josie Long The much-loved Fringe veteran is back with a new show about “the mind-bending intensity of new moth
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