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Boyd Tonkin

Articles By Boyd Tonkin

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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Prom 31, Mutter, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Barenboim review - beauty against barbarism

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Prom 24, The Fairy Queen, Les Arts Florissants/Le Jardin des Voix, Agnew review - hip-hop hornpipes

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Prom 21, Osborne, Sinfonia of London, Wilson review - a spectacular drive across America

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theartsdesk at the Ryedale Festival: dances, and songs, to the music of time

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Prom 5, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Bancroft review - a luxury orchestral cruise

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ll Segreto di Susanna/Pagliacci, Opera Holland Park review - on with the motley, out with the fags

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Orlando, Academy of Ancient Music, Cummings, Barbican review - madly beautiful

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Tosca, Opera Holland Park review - passion and populism

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Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Sousa, St Martin-in-the-Fields review - Beethoven, younger than springtime

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Coote, LSO, Tilson Thomas, Barbican review - the triumph of life

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Queyras, Philharmonia, Suzuki, RFH review - Romantic journeys

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Aci by the River, London Handel Festival, Trinity Buoy Wharf Lighthouse review - myths for the #MeToo age

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Josefowicz, LPO, Järvi, RFH review - friendly monsters

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Bach's Easter Oratorio, OAE, Whelan, QEH review - the joys of springtime

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