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‘Beautiful’ organist duet with railway station guard began with national anthem

Anna Lapwood, the director of music at Pembroke College, Cambridge had an impromptu duet with a security guard in a tribute to the Queen.

The Independent UK

‘I’ve been trying to play Mozart for 60 years. On this, my last recording, I think I’ve finally cracked it’

Mozart’s sublime music is deceptively difficult to play. Conductor Roger Norrington explains how the composer’s own father helped rewire brains and eradicate wobble

The Guardian - UK

Proms & ENO: Glass Handel review – arias meet beatboxing in a creative but baffling cacophony

Anthony Roth Costanzo’s neon-lit ‘operatic experience’ brought together Handel and Philip Glass plus dancers, a painter … and films of erotic puddings

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Fall classical music guide 2022: Collaborative Works Festival showcases Chicago composers, poets

Riccardo Muti’s last season as music director of the CSO, and Lyric Opera’s “Don Carlo” are also among the highlights of the season.

Chicago Sun-Times

Music of the Baroque marking pavilion debut at Ravinia with celebration of Haydn, Bach

The relaxed atmosphere at Ravinia is ideal to present audiences with new styles or periods of music with which they might not be familiar, like the sounds of the 17th and 18th centuries in which Music of the Baroque specializes.

Chicago Sun-Times

RBSO presents evening of Mozart, Handel and Bach

Two talented Thai stars will perform with the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra during "San Jittakarn Plays Mozart Piano Concerto No.17" in the Small Hall of Thailand Cultural Centre, Ratchadaphisek Road, on Aug 9 at 7.30pm.

Bangkok Post

Looking West/Philharmonia Baroque review – soaring ambition and vividly projected Handel

Julian Philips sklifully evokes the history and drama of the Cumbrian landscape while the PBO bookend a nicely contrasted new work with some vivacious arias

The Guardian - UK

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The week in classical: Alcina; The Blue Woman

Handel’s sorceress goes to the cabaret in Francesco Micheli’s fabulously glitzy production, while Katie Mitchell directs a powerful exploration of violence against women

The Guardian - UK

Pick of the BBC Proms 2022: Presenters on the concerts they can’t wait to see

From the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, to a celebration of Aretha Franklin and the music of video games, BBC TV presenters on the Proms not to miss this summer

Evening Standard

Alcina review – Handel’s enchanting opera glitters with retro glamour

Jane Archibald rises to the challenge as nightclub proprietor Alcina, as this lavish, campy production – with punchy playing by the OAE – transports the action to a 1960s Italian metropolis

The Guardian - UK

Serse review – new ensemble bring circus, and scissors, to Handel’s Persian opera

Period instrument ensemble Figure’s semi-staging of an abridged version of Serse was full of good ideas and strong singing

The Guardian - UK

Tamerlano review – Handel’s sadistic psychopath gains deadly charisma in stylish update

Two superb countertenors enact the love-hate relationship between the emperor and his rival in Daniel Slater’s superbly acted and sung production

The Guardian - UK

Simon Preston obituary

Charismatic organist, master of the choristers at Westminster Abbey and conductor who made more than 100 recordings

The Guardian - UK

Classical home listening: a time capsule from 1953; Caio Fabbricio; Power and Adès on film

A remastered recording of the Queen’s coronation is full of atmosphere; Handel’s ‘capsule opera’ is beautifully performed; and violist Lawrence Power releases a visual album

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La Resurrezione review – wonderful singing takes Handel into the ecstatic

The London Handel Orchestra under Laurence Cummings gave a detailed and sensuous account of Handel’s oratorio, with Nardus Williams ravishing as Mary Magdalene

The Guardian - UK

Handel in Hackney review – easy beauty and determined string playing

The London Handel festival takes the composer’s music into spaces that wouldn’t normally hear it – with mixed results

Evening Standard

London Handel Festival opening night celebration review: a rousing, joyful beginning

A programme of Handel’s greatest hits kicked off the festival in his name at his former local church

Evening Standard

Les Arts Florissants/Handel’s L’Allegro at Barbican Hall review - heart-meltingly beautiful

This rendition by the French group confirmed the view of those who rate the piece as one of Handel’s most inspired creations

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The week in classical: Alcina; Bajazet; Pavel Kolesnikov – review

In a tale of two 1735 works, Opera North miss a trick on Handel’s fantasy island while Irish National Opera explore every sizzling note of Vivaldi

The Guardian - UK

Alcina review – Opera North clear clutter but there’s not enough magic on this enchanted isle

Handel’s opera is full of glorious music but its improbable plot makes it difficult to stage; Tim Albery’s intelligent production only fitfully succeeds

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Theodora; OAE: Bach, the Universe and Everything – review

It comes with a health warning, but Katie Mitchell’s perceptive, largely cogent staging of this rarely seen work allows Handel’s genius to shine through

Evening Standard

Theodora at Covent Garden: Katie Mitchell’s production is radical but could be tighter, unlike the frocks

A feminist retelling of Handel’s story mostly makes sense, and highlights the clash of belief systems

Evening Standard

Katie Mitchell interview: ‘With the theatrical canon, you have to look the misogyny in the eye’

Her production of Handel’s Theodora will be the first at the Royal Opera House since its 1750 premiere - but not before Katie Mitchell has gone to battle with the libretto’s misogyny

The Guardian - UK

Classical home listening: young composers and Handel’s power women

The National Youth Choir of Great Britain have been busy commissioning, while Sandrine Piau soars on Enchantresses

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