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The week in classical: BBCSO Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez; RLPO/ Hindoyan: Mahler Symphony No 3; Joyce DiDonato and Maxim Emelyanychev – review

An invigorating all-day tribute to the maverick French composer-conductor felt like the end of an era. Plus, heartfelt Mahler and a star mezzo’s Winterreise

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Tom Coult: Pieces That Disappear album review – strikingly rooted and assured works from young composer

Tom Coult: Pieces That Disappear album review – strikingly rooted and assured works from young composer

This distinctive collection brings cabaret, country dances and a streak of melancholy to bear

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Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno review – imaginative staging transforms Handel’s oratorio

Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno review – imaginative staging transforms Handel’s oratorio

Its sermonising libretto was never meant to be this much fun, but in Jacopo Spirei’s characterful production, with Christian Curnyn conducting, Hilary Cronin’s delightfully truculent Pleasure emerges as the moral heart of the piece

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BBCSO/Brabbins: Italian Radicals review – politically charged, expressive and technical

Works by Luigi Dallapiccola, Bruno Maderna, Luigi Nono and Luciano Berio got the BBC Symphony Orchestra Total Immersion treatment

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Masque of Might review – recycled Purcell hybrid is inventive and chaotic fun

Soprano Anna Dennis is a compelling presence at the heart of David Pountney’s exuberant production – a collage of some 40 pieces of Purcell’s music. But it risks losing its serious message in the glories of the music

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Classical home listening: Mozart and CPE Bach from the Dunedin Consort; Cuarteto Quiroga’s Atomos

The baroque specialists thrill in a new edition of Mozart’s C minor Mass, while the Spanish string quartet go to the edge with Beethoven, Bartók and more

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Anna Dennis / Nicholas Daniel / Mahan Esfahani review – poetry and animal magic

The soprano, oboist and harpsichordist delighted in a varied recital from velvety Bach arias to new insect-inspired sketches by Michael Berkeley, and an emotional Elena Langer song cycle

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Violet review – Coult’s debut opera opens Aldeburgh with assurance

Violet review – Coult’s debut opera opens Aldeburgh with assurance

Alice Birch’s elliptical story of a wife finding freedom as society disintegrates is opaque but Tom Coult’s confident and varied score gives the work power

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Xenakis: Music & Maths review – visceral intensity takes us beyond theory

Xenakis: Music & Maths review – visceral intensity takes us beyond theory

CBSO Centre and The Exchange, BirminghamBirmingham Contemporary Music Group marked the centenary of the Greek-French composer’s birth with a day that revealed why Xenakis’s music and significance endures

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Handel in Hackney review – easy beauty and determined string playing

Handel in Hackney review – easy beauty and determined string playing

The London Handel festival takes the composer’s music into spaces that wouldn’t normally hear it – with mixed results

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