Classical

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Things to do 

As the capital reawakens, we round up the brand new plays, exhibitions, concerts, dance shows and festivals to book now (or soon!) and enjoy later

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Chiswick House and Gardens hosts the first year of the Chiswick Proms, a local but star-studded addition to London's canon of summer classical music offerings

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Baroque at the Edge returns to London and promises to be a weekend filled with dazzling Baroque delights

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Talks 

Join classical musician Evgeny Kissin as he discusses his music, memoirs and life beyond the piano

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The legendary pianist leads the ensemble in masterpieces by Mozart and Bartok

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The leading pianist performs the final three piano sonatas by four of the genre's greatest exponents

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Violinist Peter Sheppard Skaerved opens his international Mozart series in the atmospheric East End venue

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Opera 

The English Touring Opera open their season with a new production of Gluck's emotionally charged masterpiece

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English Touring Opera close their Spring 2016 season with a new production of Mozart's classic

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The supreme string quartet return to London for a pair of diverse, intriguing concerts

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Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists play some of Mozart's most emotionally affecting work

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The national treasure returns to Wigmore Hall with two of the great violin sonatas, by Beethoven and Brahms

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The regular duo partners return to Wigmore Hall to conclude their exploration of Mozart

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Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra present Haydn's great late masterpiece, with stellar soloists

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Riccardo Chailly and his esteemed orchestra return to London for a series of Strauss' tone poems and Mozart's concertos

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The innovative, not-for-profit orchestra brings a five week celebration of classical music to Peckham

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Opera 

Simon McBurney's pioneering, garlanded 2012/3 production of the Magic Flute returns for a much anticipated second run.

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Daniel Barenboim's pioneering youth ensemble return to the Proms with Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Schoenberg

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Christoph von Dohnånyi takes the reigns for the orchestra's 70th birthday concert, featuring Beethoven's immortal 9th