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We’re going to party like it’s 1629… the masques, the music and the mayhem of Banqueting House

What music soundtracked 17th-century England? Ahead of a DJ set in Banqueting House, Georgia Mann looks at the wild, the experimental, the melancholic – and why a theorbo caused a security alert

The Guardian - UK

Vespers review – haunting clash of cultures conjures Vivaldi’s Venice

This resourceful semi-staging blended choral collective Idrîsî Ensemble’s ancient chants with Iestyn Davies and Figure’s Vivaldi.

The Guardian - UK

Orpheus and Eurydice review – acrobatic Gluck is haunting, dizzying and gasp-inducing

Iestyn Davies is outstanding as the tortured Orpheus in Yaron Lifschitz’s stark and imaginative staging

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'Spiritually intense': St Matthew Passion, OAE/Cohen at Royal Festival Hall

4/5 The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under the direction of Jonathan Cohen deliver a powerfully dramatic performance

Evening Standard

Clori, Tirsi e Fileno review – Handel’s beauties and subtleties to the fore in a lovely performance

Harry Bicket and the English Concert with soloists Ailish Tynan, Joélle Harvey and Iestyn Davies brought Handel’s pastoral cantata to glorious life

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: glass human; An Anatomy of Melancholy; The Moon Hares review – opera for a lonely world

A new chamber opera explores isolation and connection, a John Dowland recital strikes a note of exquisite pain – and a community opera enchants with a modern fable

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An Anatomy of Melancholy review – vivid musical study of an indefinable condition

In an intimate show – part a staged recital part a mini-opera - Iestyn Davies and Thomas Dunford perform John Dowland’s lute songs epitomising melancholy

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An Anatomy of Melancholy at The Pit Theatre, Barbican review: deeply moving

An Anatomy of Melancholy at the Barbican

Evening Standard

How low can you go? Singer Iestyn Davies’s melancholic playlist

What connects a tea towel, a double-decker bus and a facial? The countertenor picks his 10 favourite tracks that distil the beauty of tears, pull at the heart strings and suspend time

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Plans for a new Welsh university

While early stage the federal university plans would see a tie up between two universities and colleges in Wales

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