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Boyd Tonkin

Articles By Boyd Tonkin

The English Concert, Bicket, Wigmore Hall review - a Baroque banquet for Christmas

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Messiah, Academy of Ancient Music, Cummings, Barbican review - once more, with real feeling

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Bach Mendelssohn Festival, Part I, Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra review - the flame that never died

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La Serenissima, Wigmore Hall review - an Italian menu to savour

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Bach Brandenburg Concertos, OAE, QEH review - forever young

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Rigoletto, English National Opera review - another hit for Miller's Mob

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Aurora Orchestra, Collon, Drumsheds review - surround-sound magic in the super-club

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Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, Hatfield House review - musical dreams in marble halls

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BBC Singers, BBCSO, Jeannin, Barbican review - from stormy weather to blue skies

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The Snowmaiden, English Touring Opera review - a rich harvest with modest means

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Hough, Philharmonia, Rouvali, RFH review - where the wild things are

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Wang, Lapwood, LSO, Pappano, Barbican review - grace and power from two keyboard heroines

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Prom 71, Seong-Jin Cho review - refined Romantic journeys

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Prom 61, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rattle review - Bruckner without tears

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Prom 40, St John Passion, Bach Collegium Japan, Suzuki review - finesse and feeling

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Prom 37, War Requiem, Clayton, Liverman, Romaniw, LSO, Pappano review - terror and tenderness

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