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125th anniversary gala concert review – back to 1901 as Wigmore celebrates birthday playing to its strengths

The veteran chamber music venue kicked off a celebratory two-week festival with a starry lineup of performers playing works that had featured on the first ever programme

The Guardian - UK

Strauss: An Alpine Symphony; Four Songs Op 27 album review – nothing is overblown or indulgent

Conductor Nicholas Collon keeps the sound clean and the pace dynamic in a bracing recording, while, in the Four Songs op 27, Louise Alder is unfailingly communicative

The Guardian - UK

Last Night of the Proms review – star turns, good-natured flag waving and a rich Rule, Britannia!

Bill Bailey played a mean typewriter, Brian May and Roger Taylor raised laughs with Bohemian Rhapsody and trumpeter Alison Balsom bid a poignant farewell at just 46

The Guardian - UK

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Bill Bailey ‘proud to be British’ following Last Night Of The Proms performance

The comedian’s father watched on as he played Leroy Anderson’s The Typewriter at the Royal Albert Hall

The Independent UK

Bill Bailey ‘proud to be British’ after Last Night Of The Proms performance

The 60-year-old made his Proms debut in a performance of Leroy Anderson’s The Typewriter at the Royal Albert Hall.

Evening Standard

‘The cultural landscape is decimated’: Louise Alder on stage fright, arts funding and the Last Night of the Proms

The great soprano will be the first British singer to top the bill at the Last Night in over a decade. So why does she advise her younger colleagues to leave the country?

The Guardian - UK

Le Nozze di Figaro review – astute period staging of Mozart’s masterpiece is as poignant as it is funny

Glyndebourne, SussexMariame Clément allows the story of the predatory Count to resonate across the centuries in this exhilaratingly well performed and eye-catching production

The Guardian - UK

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Giulio Cesare review – concert staging with plenty of sublime, and ridiculous, moments

Harry Bicket and the English Concert’s performance of Handel’s opera was full of compelling performances, most notably Louise Alder’s Cleopatra, Christophe Dumaux’s Caesar and John Holiday’s Ptolemy

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Giulio Cesare; Così fan tutte; Siegfried/Götterdämmerung – review

There is much fun and an excellent cast in David McVicar’s sparkling Handel revival; Mozart’s partner-swap opera soars with exuberant solos; and Wagner’s Ring marathon reaches a roaring climax

The Guardian - UK

Prom 31: Ulster Orch/Rustioni review – ravishing and mesmerising

Daniele Rustioni and his orchestra brought accuracy and beauty to Wagner, Mahler and Schumann, while soprano Louise Alder’s account of Strauss’s Four Last Songs was deeply moving

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