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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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John Neumeier’s Ghost Light and Glen Tetley’s Firebird – Music by Schubert & Stravinsky – London...

John Neumeier’s Ghost Light and Glen Tetley’s Firebird – Music by Schubert & Stravinsky – London...

London City Ballet (LCB), now in its third season since its re-founding, continues to impress with its ambition. For its Sadler’s wells appearance this year,

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London Symphony Orchestra - Bruckner 9 – Barbican Hall, London – Review | The Classical Source

This ‘Half Six Fix’ concert by the London Symphony Orchestra – their first in this season’s rush hour programmes – featured no less a work than Bruckner’s

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#balletreview @RoyalOperaHouse @TheRoyalBallet classicalsource.com/concert/…
Massenet – Manon - The Royal Ballet - Orchestra of The Royal Opera House with Koen Kessels – Royal...

Massenet – Manon - The Royal Ballet - Orchestra of The Royal Opera House with Koen Kessels – Royal...

Central to why we purchase tickets for live performance is the hope that tonight will be ‘the’ night when everything comes together and the experience is

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CD Review: Karol Szreter - Parlophon & Odeon recordings 1926–1931 - The Classical Source

CD Review: Karol Szreter - Parlophon & Odeon recordings 1926–1931  - The Classical Source

Classical music labels, both large and small, have spent much of the 21st century dredging the riverbed of musical history for unknown composers. Specialist

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CD Review: Fantasia - Sonatas, sonatinas, and other recital works for saxophone with Kyle Horch and...

This charming album features, to quote the excellent programme notes, ‘six wonderful recital pieces for saxophone that are not yet particularly well-known,

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Sheku Kanneh-Mason joins young cellists for a massed cello performance at The Glasshouse after tour...

Sheku Kanneh-Mason joins young cellists for a massed cello performance at The Glasshouse after tour...

Informal concourse performance ends a week of concerts with Royal Northern Sinfonia across the North.

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Lugansky plays Schumann and Chopin at Wigmore Hall – Wigmore Hall, London – Review | The Classical...

Lugansky plays Schumann and Chopin at Wigmore Hall – Wigmore Hall, London – Review | The Classical...

'You cannot judge someone merely from a recording,' I remember Lazar Berman saying over a Soho lunch fifty years ago. 'Horowitz made me a good allegory. If

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CD Review: Stravinsky -Ansermet HDTT - The Classical Source

CD Review: Stravinsky -Ansermet HDTT - The Classical Source

The collaboration between Igor Stravinsky and Ernest Ansermet is one of the most significant in 20th-century music, akin to that between Shostakovich and

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CD Review: Stokowski - The Russians - The Classical Source

CD Review: Stokowski - The Russians - The Classical Source

Stokowski was among a small group of conductors who were enthusiastically drawn to Russian music, particularly the new school of 20th-century composers,

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New Sussex Opera – Charpentier’s David and Jonathan – Windmill Theatre, Hove, East Sussex, UK –...

New Sussex Opera – Charpentier’s David and Jonathan  – Windmill Theatre, Hove, East Sussex, UK –...

This is New Sussex Opera’s first foray into the French Baroque and, despite a work which isn’t the most accessible from that repertoire, the company brings it

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Royal Philharmonic at Cadogan Hall – Adam Hickox conducts Bacewicz and Vaughan Williams, Liya...

Royal Philharmonic at Cadogan Hall – Adam Hickox conducts Bacewicz and Vaughan Williams, Liya...

An optimistic call to arms, Grażyna Bacewicz’s 1943 Overture – her first orchestral work in an output including four symphonies and seven violin concertos –

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CD Review: Janacek Mr Broucek Rattle LSO Live DSD512 - The Classical Source

CD Review: Janacek Mr Broucek Rattle LSO Live DSD512 - The Classical Source

The world of opera has produced some bizarre, well-nigh incomprehensible plots, but few rival Mr Broucek (in Czech a small beetle). Composed between 1908-18

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London Philharmonic at Royal Festival Hall - Marie Jacquot conducts Franck, Kian Soltani plays Dv...

London Philharmonic at Royal Festival Hall - Marie Jacquot conducts Franck, Kian Soltani plays Dv...

With no overture to open the evening, we began straight away with an eloquent reading of an evergreen. Kian Soltani has already recorded this greatest of all

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CD Review: Gounod Faust Cluytens HDTT - The Classical Source

CD Review: Gounod Faust Cluytens HDTT - The Classical Source

Andre Cluytens recorded Faust in 1953 and 1958; the latter in stereo. Both shared the three main principals. Cluytens keeps the score moving, although he lets

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Rhythm Riot - English National Ballet – Sadler’s Wells – Review | The Classical Source

Rhythm Riot - English National Ballet – Sadler’s Wells – Review | The Classical Source

English National Ballet’s latest mixed bill is a somewhat ho-hum affair, a two-hour triptych comprising an undisputed masterpiece by a master choreographer

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Britten’s War Requiem with the LPO and Edward Gardner – Southbank Centre, London - Royal Festival...

Britten’s War Requiem with the LPO and Edward Gardner – Southbank Centre, London - Royal Festival...

A full house greeted this season-opening concert with palpable enthusiasm and, wonder of wonders, a decent hiatus of quiet contemplation before the closing

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CD Review: CRQ 706 Pierre Monteux On Tour: Debussy Fetes, New York 1944, Schubert 9, Moscow 1956,...

The great French conductor Pierre Monteux (1875-1964) was something of a wanderer. After starting out as a viola player, he worked with, amongst others, the

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CD Review: John Wilson - English String Music Volume 3 (Sinfonia of London) - The Classical Source

CD Review: John Wilson - English String Music Volume 3 (Sinfonia of London) - The Classical Source

 The third collection of English String Music from this source is as outstanding as its predecessors, albeit more distanced from the famous Sir John

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CD Review: Faces & Places - The Classical Source

Like many other modern composers Josemari Hernandez composes accessible, largely tonal, as opposed to confrontational, music.

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BBC Proms 2026- Last Night (from another Reviewer) – Review - The Classical Source

BBC Proms 2026- Last Night (from another Reviewer) – Review - The Classical Source

For several years The Last Night of the Proms has excited controversy, due to what might be considered the overt nationalism of Rule Britannia and Land of

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