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Period accents combine with vocal splendour in Bach's late epic. Classical music review by Boyd Tonkin

Master Handelian directs a marvellously colourful performance with an outstanding cast of singers. Opera/Classical music review by Simon Thompson

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The striptease is all Strauss’s in the Bergen Philharmonic’s expertly revealing Salome. Plus, the new-ish Takács Quartet, a theorbo moment and a sock-throwing night at the opera

Pounding dance rhythms from the Bergen players, and an intimate journey from the Renaissance to the Baroque from Edinburgh’s own Dunedin Consort. Reviews by Susan Nickalls and Ken Walton

Julian Philips sklifully evokes the history and drama of the Cumbrian landscape while the PBO bookend a nicely contrasted new work with some vivacious arias

Subscriptions for the 2022-23 Portland Baroque Orchestra (PBO) Season are now on sale! Subscriptions for this season will be seated in a first come, first served basis, so please call 503-222-6000, or purchase online today to reserve your seats. This season will be a journey to find Portland Baroque Orchestra’s new Artistic Director. They are...

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50 of the finest Mozart recordings in history, featuring Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Martha Argerich and Claudio Abbado, plus extracts from the original Gramophone reviews

From around 1600 to 1750, the Baroque period witnessed the creation of some of the greatest musical masterpieces ever composed