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House music: classical critics' watching
and listening picks
Rian Evans
This week in our series in which critics tell us what they’ve been listening to at home,
Rian Evans luxuriates in heady Szymanowski and Schoenberg, smells the brine in
Aldeburgh and is impressed by an end-of-year double bill
But it’s the Guildhall School of Music and Drama who hold all the aces in creating digital
performances of their end-of-year opera double-bill. Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas is paired with La
bella dormente nel bosco in a rare outing for Respighi’s witty take on the Sleeping Beauty fairytale.
It’s the virtual thing in both senses and promises to be both inventive and evocative.
