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BBC Proms - Elgar's First: Magnificent symphony re-examined in an insightful reading

4/5 Ryan Wigglesworth brings subtlety to the pomp at this night at the Proms

Evening Standard

The Traitors Prom review – iconic show’s greatest hits turn the melodrama up to 11

Claudia Winkleman hosted while the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra expertly negotiated orchestrated covers including Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo alongside a smattering of Saint-Saëns and Puccini

The Guardian - UK

The Excursions of Mr Brouček at the Barbican: 'laboured comedy in comic opera'

4/5 Simon Rattle’s latest Janáček opera with the LSO is one of his less frequently performed works and manages to triumph over the difficulties

Evening Standard

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Mahler 8 at the Multitudes festival: 'five stars, if not for the screensaver visuals'

4/5 The London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Edward Gardner, excel at Mahler’s 8th but the experimental video accompaniment was only partially successful

Evening Standard

Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez at the Barbican review — the BBC at its best

5/5 Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a tribute to the legendary composer

Evening Standard

Central London office space in high demand and shops expanding, Landsec says

The property market is showing signs of strengthening following the pandemic with activity in the capital picking up pace.

Evening Standard

LSO/Stutzmann review – her monumental Bruckner is also light on its feet

Singer-turned-conductor Nathalie Stutzmann presented Bruckner’s unfinished Ninth with his Te Deum, making an eloquent and majestic statement

The Guardian - UK

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BBCSO/Kahchun Wong review – hints of musical adventure to come

The Singaporean conductor, soon to head the Hallé, chose a Shostakovich symphony for his London debut, along with two Japanese pieces forming a timely tribute to the late Seiji Ozawa

The Guardian - UK

Elijah review – LSO and Pappano make it big, bold and beautiful

Antonio Pappano conducted the London Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and an excellent lineup of soloists in this superbly detailed and rousing performance

The Guardian - UK

Landsec shifts focus from City of London to West End as tenants seek ‘vibrancy’

Owner of Bluewater and Trinity Leeds also says brands are looking for ‘fewer, bigger, better’ stores

The Guardian - UK

Kronos Quartet: Five Decades review – virtuosic quartet celebrate with djembe, eggplant and Hendrix

In a 50th anniversary concert, the San Franscisco group, led by founding member David Harrington, dipped into a vast, varied back catalogue with their eyes firmly on the future

The Guardian - UK

LSO/Pappano review – drama, colour and fun as orchestra embraces the new

Wheezing harmonicas and tinkling music boxes enliven Hannah Kendall’s elemental new work, while Alice Sara Ott gave a barnstorming account of Liszt’s Totentanz in a programme masterfully led by the London Symphony Orchestra’s chief conductor designate

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: LSO/ Rattle; Boston Symphony Orchestra/ Nelsons – review

The LSO gave Simon Rattle an unforgettable send-off in Mahler’s Ninth, while the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons turned on the style with Stravinsky, Ravel and Gershwin

The Guardian - UK

Prom 56: LSO/Rattle review – a packed Albert Hall hung on every note in utter silence

In his last UK concert as the LSO’s music director, Simon Rattle bid farewell with an outstanding and assured performance of Mahler’s final symphony. The BBC Singers’ Poulenc, beginning the Prom, was expert and impassioned

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Woman who made bigoted slur at Glasgow Orange Walk march sentenced

A CHILD cancer survivor who made a bigoted slur and spat at police was shown mercy by a sheriff yesterday.

The Guardian - UK

Proms 37 & 38: Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer review – bold, theatrical and enthralling

The first two Proms of the Hungarians’ mini residency found orchestra, conductor and soloist Andras Schiff moving and thinking as one. The Audience Choice programme might have been eccentric but it was hugely entertaining

The Guardian - UK

Everest review – opera strains to scale mountain tragedy

A concert staging of Joby Talbot’s opera by the BBC Symphony, complete with singers climbing blocks on stage, finds greatest drama in the terrible facts of the disaster it portrays

The Guardian - UK

Les Siècles review – Raw, radical and revelatory as Roth’s period band thrills

François-Xavier Roth led an exhilarating and illuminating programme that moved through 80 years of French music, from Berlioz to Boulanger

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NYOGB/Gourlay review – passionate young players bring drama and energy to Stravinsky

With pieces ranging from a bluesy stomp to a dazzling Firebird, this concert from the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain was a tour de force

Bristol Post

Bristol dental practice among 85 set to close at the end of June

Bupa Dental Care has announced its St Pauls branch will be closing

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: London Symphony Orchestra/Noseda; Down the Rabbit Hole – review

Gianandrea Noseda and the LSO go to the edge with Shostakovich. Plus, an operatic trip to Wonderland for deaf and hard-of-hearing children

Nottingham Post

85 dental practices could close amid 'systemic' challenges with 1,200 jobs at risk

A full list of the potential closures has been put together

Belfast Live

Two Northern Ireland dental practices among 85 set to close amid UK shortage of dentists

Bupa, one of the UK's largest private providers of dental practices, has not been able to recruit enough dentists

Chronicle Live

Full list of Bupa Dental Care practices set to close - including three in North East

Bupa has not been able to recruit enough dentists to deliver NHS care in many practices for months and in some cases years, it said

Birmingham Post

Full list of the 85 Bupa Dental Care practices set to be cut in a move affecting 1,200 staff

All the practices will remain open as usual in the meantime

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