Hamlet and A Beethoven Feast: this week’s best UK classical concerts

Brett Dean’s opera gets its first performance, while the Royal Northern Sinfonia recreates the concert at which four great Beethoven works debutedOliver Knussen conducts BCMG’s latest British-music showcase, which includes his own works alongside a selection by Harrison Birtwistle. The centrepiece is the world premiere of Colin Matthews’s A Land of Rain, comprising settings of Baudelaire in English translations.
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