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Boyd Tonkin

Articles By Boyd Tonkin

La finta giardiniera, The Mozartists, Cadogan Hall review - blooms in the wild garden

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Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Czech Philharmonic, Bychkov, Barbican review - from Russia, with tough love

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The Capulets and the Montagues, English Touring Opera review - the wise guys are singing like canaries

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Bach's Mass in B minor, The English Concert, Bezuidenhout, St Martin-in-the-Fields review - solemnity and splendour

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Sidorova, Philharmonia, Alsop, Royal Festival Hall review - ladies of the dance

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BBC Singers, Aurora Orchestra, Collon, Kings Place review - on the way to heaven via King's Cross

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Leif Ove Andsnes, Wigmore Hall review - colour and courage, from Hardanger to Majorca

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Spence, Perez, Richardson, Wigmore Hall review - a Shakespearean journey in song

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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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