City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
New Year review – Blake’s 7, redemption and rap as Birmingham Opera Company turn to Tippett
This staging of Michael Tippett’s complex opera, whose story of impoverished 80s Britain takes in sci-fi, street slang and electric guitar, is a remarkable feat.
CBSO/Morlot review – A beautiful lament for corrupted nature
John Luther Adams’ powerful new work grieves for the loss of animals and plants – including with a recreation of extinct birdsong – while asserting that Earth will live on
CBSO/Yamada review – Anna Clyne’s Atlas is a brilliantly coloured musical scrapbook
This piano concerto co-commissioned by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is one of quicksilver changes of mood conveyed brilliantly by Jeremy Denk
Wigmore Hall launches £10m fund in bid to be self-sustaining
Conductor Simon Rattle says cutting UK tax relief for orchestras would be a catastrophe
Observer critics' review of 2023
Classical music: Fiona Maddocks’s 10 best concerts and operas of 2023Two tragic new operas, Mussorgsky with bells on and rousing community endeavours inspired and moved, while ENO hit highs despite a year of turmoil
The week in classical: LSO/ Rattle; Boston Symphony Orchestra/ Nelsons – review
The LSO gave Simon Rattle an unforgettable send-off in Mahler’s Ninth, while the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons turned on the style with Stravinsky, Ravel and Gershwin
Other lives
Jackie Hartley obituaryOther lives: Classical violinist who co-led the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for seven years
CBSO/Gražinytė-Tyla/Frang review – remarkable performance brings out Elgar’s extraordinary beauty
The week in classical: The Decision; The Dream of Gerontius; Soloists of the CBSO – review
CBSO: Sounds New review – showcasing the talents of 20 young musicians
CBSO/Madaras review – tumultuous, multi-faceted symphonies by Larcher and Mahler
In This Brief Moment review – Darwin, Genesis and whirlygigs in Brett Dean’s mindblowing cantata
Dean’s five-part evolution cantata was brought to vivid life by Nicholas Collon and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
The week in classical: Prom 14: CBSO/ Yamada; Prom 16: BBCNOW/ Manze; L’incoronazione di Poppea
Prom 14: CBSO/Yamada review – Smyth beguiles and Rachmaninov ravishes
CBSO/Morlot review – remarkable Thorvaldsdottir and phenomenal Kopatchinskaja
Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Catamorphosis, premiered here by Ludovic Morlot and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, is an extraordinary achievement
CBSO/Gražinytė-Tyla review – assured Bruckner and arresting Tchaikovsky mark the end of a Birmingham era
Symphony Hall, Birmingham
In her last UK concert as the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s music director, Gražinytė-Tyla showed just what a fine and nuanced Bruckner interpreter she really is
The Ordering of Moses review – Dett’s oratorio thrills on its belated UK premiere
Joshua Weilerstein conducted the CBSO in a rare outing for the African American composer Robert Nathaniel Dett’s vivid and impassioned ‘sacred cantata’
The Cunning Little Vixen review – CBSO’s concert staging has care but misses vital charm
Elena Tsallagova was a feisty vixen and the CBSO’s playing under Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla was outstanding in a more matter-of-fact interpretation of Janáček’s opera than one normally hears
CBSO names Kazuki Yamada as new chief conductor
Japanese musician, currently the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s principal guest conductor, will succeed Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla in April 2023
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