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English National Opera launches its new season with three productions, the Royal Opera stages Bernstein rarities, and the piano gets its own festival
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Booking opens 13 May for the world's biggest music festival. Gorge on romantic Rachmaninov and get ahead with new works. Proms are live on BBC Radio 3; some are televised
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The most versatile of all instruments is celebrated in a full year of song, joyful and contemplative, old and new
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From outstanding singers and thrilling players to imaginative innovations and artists who do things differently. Here are our musical highlights of 2021
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Edgy music in a relaxed atmosphere as London's most innovative musicians play from memory in a converted industrial space
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Six weeks of live concerts to in-person audiences, featuring the best music and artists
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Singers and players return to the King's Cross venue, with a live audience, and continue telling life's stories in music
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A live symphony concert, with audience and players safely together again, thanks to London's flexible friends
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Wednesday Watch is your new weekly classical music appointment. Catch old favourites and new music recorded at London's innovative venue
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A magical, musical adventure for under-fives that adults will also find irresistible
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A year-long celebration of music written by and performed by women, from the Italian Renaissance to the present day. Some of it may not even have been written yet!
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Come and experience Aurora Orchestra's gothic showstopper Smoke and Mirrors at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, if you dare...
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A free open-air concert for families, with Mozart played from memory
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Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein’s masterpiece October: Ten Days that Shook the World is being screened before live music by the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican this October
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When they're not wrapped around Brahms and Beethoven, after dark the musicians of brilliant young orchestra Aurora let rip with jazz, improvisation and drama
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A programme of dramatic music inspired by the fascination for mankind of making a creature come to life, from the clay man of Prometheus to Frankenstein's monster