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Haydn: Die Schöpfung
18 Oct 2009: René Jacobs' baroque orchestra breathes fire into Haydn's masterpiece
Peter Maxwell 75th birthday/Nash Ensemble and Mariinsky/Gergiev
18 Oct 2009: While Peter Maxwell Davies's 75th birthday is celebrated, Cardiff's Millennium Centre comes of age, says Fiona Maddocks Opera for Everybody: The Story of English National Opera by Susie Gilbert
18 Oct 2009: An exhaustive history fails to convince Peter Conrad of the purpose of English National Opera
Jonas Kaufmann: Arias and Scenes
18 Oct 2009: Jonas Kaufmann's tenor voice delights in pieces from Mozart to Wagner, says Nicholas Kenyon