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Boyd Tonkin

Articles By Boyd Tonkin

Mary Wellesley: Hidden Hands review - passion in the parchment

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Don Pasquale, Glyndebourne Tour review - winning comeback for a sturdy veteran

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The Creation, Academy of Ancient Music, Cummings, Barbican review - back to choral paradise

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Iestyn Davies, Aurora Orchestra, Collon, Kings Place review - Elizabethans and extraterrestrials

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Nicola Benedetti, Barbican Hall review – from Bach to the Highlands via New Orleans

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St Matthew Passion, Arcangelo, Cohen, BBC Proms review – journey to the end of night

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Hallenberg, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Gardiner, BBC Proms review - a vindication of voices

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Isserlis, LPO, Jurowski, BBC Proms review - a final hand full of aces

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Christopher Clark: Prisoners of Time review - from Kaiser Bill to Dominic Cummings

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Benedetti, National Youth Orchestra, Heyward, BBC Proms review – stirring sounds of change

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Amadigi, Garsington Opera review – geometries of enchantment

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Anna Neima: The Utopians review – after horror, six quests for the good life

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La traviata, Opera Holland Park review – a revival in rude health

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Sam Riviere: Dead Souls review – whip-smart literary satire with a techno tinge

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Connolly, Middleton, Leeds Lieder online review - epic voyage on a luxury vessel

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Isserlis, LPO, Elder, Southbank Centre online review – songs of life and death

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