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The Classical Source publishes its reviews of #classical concerts, #opera #ballet #musicals #recordings & #interviews. Tweets by the Classicalsource team

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Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse in Paris - Alexandre Kantorow plays Beethoven, and Tarmo...

Asked to name any conductor outside the UK and the chances are you’ll head straight to Finland for an answer. Twenty-six-year-old Tarmo Peltokoski has been at

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Glyndebourne Festival 2026 – Puccini’s Tosca – Caitlin Gotimer, Matteo Lippi & Vladislav Sulimsky;...

It’s been a year of firsts as far as Tosca is concerned: the Royal Opera House having begun the present season back in September with its first new production

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The Berliner Philharmoniker and Herbert von Karajan: 1970–1979 live in Berlin - The Classical Source

Last year the BPO released one of their luxury SACD boxes featuring Karajan and the orchestra live covering the 50s and 60s

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J. S. Bach - Transformations - The Classical Source

This delightful recital contains a selection of Bach’s arrangements/transformations of his own and a couple of other composers works, where Alexandra

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Hidden Voices - Rare Quartets from Poland and Spain - The Classical Source

These releases showcase largely unknown twentieth century string quartets from two very different traditions, which in terms of their non-confrontational

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Vasily Petrenko and the RPO in Hisaishi & Scriabin - The Classical Source

A curious programme with which to bring down the curtain on a successful season. Vasily Petrenko began with one of his well-intended homilies, promising us an

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John Wilson at The Grange Festival 2026: Celebrating Sinatra - The Classical Source

Audience members had come from far and wide, making a kind of pilgrimage to this unlikely, austerely magical venue set in the Hampshire countryside. In recent

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Romsey Chamber Music Festival Finale - The Classical Source

The elements were no less a presence in the final concert of this week-long festival and provided the thematic ‘glue’ to an otherwise seemingly unrelated

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Romsey Chamber Music Festival 2 - The Classical Source

Jennifer Higdon’s six-minute Fiery Red forms the second part of her two movement Piano Trio (a 2003 commission) and continues her preoccupation as to whether

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‘Fire and Ice’ - Romsey Chamber Music Festival - The Classical Source

Once again, Laura Rickard curated this week-long festival of a dozen or so events, this year turning her attention to the elements: earth, air, fire and

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Gentleman Jack - The Classical Source

Like a breath of bracing Yorkshire air, Northern Ballet’s brand-new Gentleman Jack swept into Sadler’s Wells, bringing a truly refreshing new narrative to the

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Don Quixote - The Classical Source

Cuban ballet superstar-turned company director Carlos Acosta brings his second production of Marius Petipa and Ludwig Minkus’ Spanish romp Don Quixote to

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Enyi Okpari with Martin James Bartlett at Lighthouse - The Classical...

Arnold Bax’s lavishly scored Tintagel was inspired by a holiday romance with pianist Harriet Cohen whilst visiting the north Cornish coast in 1917.

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Wozzeck: Wretches like us - The Classical Source

London’s South Bank Centre is following up 2025’s series of multimedia events with a further sequence entitled ‘Multitudes’. While inclusivity and

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Messiaen’s Turangalîla-symphonie with animation – RPO/Petrenko with Stephen Osborne - The Classical...

As part of the Southbank Centre’s ‘Multitudes’ festival, pairing music with works in other art forms, this concert brought together Messiaen’s

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BBC PROMS 2026: STAR-SPANGLED SPECTACLE MEETS BRITISH BACKBONE IN AN 86-CONCERT SUMMER MARATHON -...

Royal Albert Hall, London and venues nationwide
17 July – 12 September 2026

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Voices from Finland - The Classical Source

Advance publicity promised not only ‘Sibelius in the raw’ but also ‘one of modern Finland’s most original young voices’. One wonders whether Lotta Wennäkoski

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Palm Beach Opera – Puccini’s La bohème – Anita Hartig, Liparit Avetisyan, Edward Parks & Sydney...

Palm Beach Opera began its 2026 season with a stellar production of La bohème, featuring an outstanding cast, director Peter

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The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players – H.M.S. Pinafore - The Classical Source

The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players’ winter ‘mini season’   opened with a thoroughly charming performance of H.M.S. Pinafore, the

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 ENO LAUNCHES INTERNATIONAL SEARCH FOR NEXT MACKERRAS FELLOW AS PART OF CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS -...

English National Opera (ENO) today celebrates the centenary of the birth of Sir Charles Mackerras by opening applications for the next ENO Mackerras

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