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Magnificent minimalism, sizzling Strauss, bracing Berlioz: Guardian critics’ top picks for Proms 2026

As details of this year’s concert series are unveiled, here are some of the most exciting lineups – from a Bach recital by Notre-Dame’s organist to Thomas Adès conducting the National Youth Orchestra in his own ballet

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Messiah album review – Whelan takes Handel’s oratorio back to its beginnings

Conductor Peter Whelan leads a finely judged and agile period-instrument performance with only 13 singers.

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Imeneo review – Handel in mischievous mood handled with wit and care

Cambridge Handel Opera Company capture the self-referential charm of this mid-career novelty operetta

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Bath BachFest review – joyous and mesmerising music making

The festival’s new artistic director Adrian Brendel presided over – and was a key part of – a day of virtuosic and adventurous performances

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Handel: Sosarme album review – Marco Angioloni makes the case for this little-known work

Doubling as vocalist and conductor, Angiolini is joined by fine singers in this rarely recorded late work. Giacomo Nanni’s sonorous ‘Fra l’ombre e gl’orrori’ is a particular highlight

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Ariodante review – dysfunctional royals and designer dresses in Handel with a disjunct

There’s a top-notch cast and detailed work from all involved in Jetske Mijnssen’s production that reframes Handel’s opera as a modern family psychodrama.

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Partenope review – edgy and erotic Handel update

Nardus Williams is stylish as she is swept up in a maelstrom of passions and longings while pursued by three suitors in a revival of Christopher Alden’s 2008 production

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Adrian Sutton obituary

Acclaimed British composer best known for War Horse, Coram Boy and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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Giustino review – sublime, and ridiculous, Handel rarity returns to Covent Garden

Joe Hill-Gibbins’ scaled-down staging is sensitive, and the music beautifully played and sung, but this is an uneven work dramatically

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Susanna review – Opera North’s arresting take on Handel’s proto-#MeToo tale

Dance, sign language, outstanding singing and precise orchestral playing all illuminate this powerful tale of gendered violence and abuses of power

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The Kanneh-Masons: River of Music album review – a fond familial affair

Welsh folk songs and an original composition sit alongside Liszt, Chopin, Handel and Elgar in a misty-eyed first half, before a more monochrome performance of Schubert’s Trout Quintet

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Semele review – Pretty Yende is a spirited but sketchy heroine in inconsistent Handel staging

Alice Coote’s vengeful Juno steals the show in Oliver Mears’ bleak and occasionally fussy production

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Semele at Royal Opera House review: 'deeply disturbing and thought provoking'

4/5 Oliver Mears’ creates a darker and more sinister take on Handel’s opera, with an impressive cast including Pretty Yende in the title role

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Rodelinda review – powerplay and pig’s blood in thrillingly energised Handel

Ruth Knight’s production captures the menace and high stakes in this deliciously devilish power struggle with Lucy Crowe whirling her sword like Uma Thurman in Kill Bill

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Saul review – probing, dark and engrossing staging of Handel’s oratorio

Barrie Kosky’s remarkable 2015 production returns to the summer festival with Christopher Purves and Iestyn Davies superb in the lead roles

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‘An unbroken arc of music’: Bradford prepares for 36-hour odyssey of sound

Event, a highlight of city of culture celebrations, will involve 500 musicians playing everything from Mozart to bhangra

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William Christie is busy as ever at 80 and putting his imprint on the period-instrument movement

William Christie is as busy as ever in a season celebrating his 80th birthday, conducting, playing the harpsichord, administering his Les Arts Florissants orchestral and vocal ensemble and teaching at The Juilliard School as he sticks with Baroque repertoire on period instruments, staying away from more modern composers

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Pimpinone review – hot-to-trot comic opera from the underperformed Telemann

Isabela Díaz has great fun as chambermaid Vespetta and Grisha Martirosyan is laugh-out-loud funny as nice-but-dim Pimpinone in a tale of sexual politics not a million miles from our own time

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The week in classical: Arias Reimagined; Rhythm of the Seasons; Out of the Deep; Turandot – review

In a good week for baroque experiments, Handel meets Britney Spears and AI, while a whirlwind percussionist unpicks Vivaldi

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Tales of Apollo and Hercules review – Handel double bill channels Don Draper and Hollywood musicals

An imaginative melding of a 1710 Handel cantata and a 1751 oratorio results in a nifty two-act opera-ballet – and a dazzling cornucopia of images

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L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato review – dazzling opening to London Handel festival

Jonathan Cohen and his crack baroque ensemble Arcangelo seized upon the colourful pastoral with relish, lighting up Handel’s own parish church

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Colin Tilney obituary

Harpsichordist who recorded the instrument’s major works and encouraged new pieces for early keyboards

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Figure: Side By Side review – spikily stylish baroque and contemporary music

Stone Nest, LondonVivaldi and Handel shadow-boxed with Caroline Shaw and Joanna Ward in this ambitious, punchy concert

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Samson Tsoy: Inmost Heart: Bach, Brahms, Busoni, Reger review – the pianist’s subtle, searching debut

Playing Brahms’s transcriptions of Bach and Handel, then Reger and Busoni takes on Brahms, Tsoy contemplates creativity across centuries in this fine recital

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The Frans Brüggen Project album review – Horsch’s fascinating recorder review

On a record where instruments matter more than the music, Horsch celebrates Brüggen and the remarkable 17th and 18th-century recorders he collected

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