Magnificent minimalism, sizzling Strauss, bracing Berlioz: Guardian critics’ top picks for Proms 2026
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Sean Shibe: Vesper review – ever imaginative guitar virtuouso brings mind-expanding flights of fancy
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Samuel Hasselhorn: Schubert Hoffnung review – timbral and emotional flexibility is in ample supply
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Leeds Song festival review – from haiku to hauntings in evening that thinks outside the box
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Reich: The Sextets album review – Colin Currie celebrates the minimalist master’s joy of six
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Mahler Symphonies 1–9 album review – Bychkov’s set earns a place in a starry pantheon
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Tamerlano review – Trump, Freud and a Bridgerton escapee struggle to get a handle on Handel
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Rigoletto review – strong revival of Mears’s violent take, with Elder revelatory in the pit
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Pagliacci review – Leoncavallo’s grand guignol staged with insight and commitment
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The Gondoliers review – brilliantly barbed Gilbert and Sullivan is a feast for the eyes and ears
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Johannes-Passion album review – Pygmalion are razor sharp in theatrical new recording
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Through the Centuries: Songs of Madeleine Dring album review – puts paid to any idea that she was not a serious composer
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BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Oramo/ Son review – rainy days, rolling hills and enchanted creatures
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Joseph Nolan: The Complete Alkan Organ Works, Vol 1 album review – seething with quasi-orchestral colour
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Nemanja Radulović: Prokofiev album review – thrills and spills from a fearless violin virtuoso
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LSO/Hannigan review – intensely fluent soprano switches into full command as conductor
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Harnoncourt: Mendelssohn, Wagner, Schumann album review – revelatory readings from the late revolutionary
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