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Wakeling celebrating the 400th anniversary of the Oxford Botanic Garden, superbly premiered

by Marcus Farnsworth and Libby Burgess.

Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Up for Grabs, Barbican
Perhaps you have to be a Gooner to enjoy it, but this exuberant and poignant 20-minute score,

matched to filmed highlights of Arsenal’s great victory against Liverpool in 1989, hit the back

of the net for me.

Kopatchinskaja’s Bartok, BBC Proms
Barefoot and brilliant, Patricia Kopatchinskaja lit up the whole Proms season with her scorching

performance of Bartok’s Violin Concerto No 2

Fidelio at Glyndebourne Festival
And one turkey . . .

Fidelio, Glyndebourne Festival
The Sunday Times called Frederic Wake-Walker’s staging “hideously am-dram”. I merely

thought it was pretentious bollocks. Either way, I can’t remember a less convincing production

of Beethoven’s opera, and I’ve seen a few bad ones.