London Symphony Orchestra
Hip-hop band Cypress Hill makes 1996 Simpsons joke come true
London Symphony Orchestra to play Black Sunday album at Royal Albert Hall decades after featuring on TV show
LSO/Noseda review – Beamish’s Distans is virtuousic and exquisite
Given its UK premiere by Janine Jansen and Martin Fröst, Sally Beamish’s concerto for violin and clarinet was the centrepiece of a beautifully judged programme
LSO/Adès review – Adès’s violin concerto beguiles in Mutter’s silvery sound
The week in classical: Riot Symphony; L’Olimpiade; LSO/Tilson Thomas review – humanity and hope
LSO/Pappano/Balsom review – elephant honks kick off Wynton Marsalis’s trumpet showcase
Soloist Alison Balsom delivered Marsalis’s playful new trumpet concerto with poise, expertise and wit – right down to the animal calls
The week in classical: Carmen; National Youth Chamber Choir/ OAE/Jeannin; LSO/ Roth review – from Habanera to doo-wop
Aigul Akhmetshina steals the show in Damiano Michieletto’s uneven new 70s-set Bizet. And in a good week for world premieres, four composers take on Handel while the London Symphony Orchestra channels death metal
‘Misguided wokeism’ puts people off opera, says top London conductor
British music, birthdays and building work: LSO announce first season under Pappano
Alison Balsom: ‘This is the most important piece written for the trumpet in 200 years’
LSO/Rattle review – Adams’ Frenzy debuts but Roy Harris’s Third is the real discovery
In an all-American programme, works by composers from Gershwin to an Adams world premiere were superbly presented by Rattle and LSO, with Harris’s 1939 symphony a revelation
The week in classical: Marx in London!; The Barber of Seville; LSO/ Stutzmann; RPO/ Petrenko – review
LSO/Stutzmann review – her monumental Bruckner is also light on its feet
Elijah review – LSO and Pappano make it big, bold and beautiful
Antonio Pappano conducted the London Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and an excellent lineup of soloists in this superbly detailed and rousing performance
The week in classical: Elektra; Jenůfa; Scottish Ensemble with Jasdeep Singh Degun – review
In the hands of two great conductors, high drama and outstanding playing converge in Strauss’s unyielding tragedy and Janáček’s dark masterpiece
Jenůfa review – muscle and lyricism as Rattle leads superb cast through Janáček’s formidable opera
With the power of the LSO on stage alongside them, this concert performance found Agneta Eichenholz magnetic in the title role and tenor Aleš Briscein a particular standout
LSO/Noseda review – Prokofiev’s curious Fourth alongside very fine Brahms
Gianandrea Noseda and the LSO made a strong case for the 1947 version of Prokofiev’s Fourth symphony, and Simon Trpčeski was an insightful and elegant soloist in Brahms’s second piano concerto
LSO/Ward review – soaring and accomplished, Faust resisted flashy indulgence
Wigs, kisses and the pope’s jumpsuit: can Maestro reveal the real Bernstein?
The week in classical: Cumnock Tryst; LSO: A Dance to the Music of Time
LSO/Pappano review – Kopatchinskaja dazzles and ravishes in Say’s Violin Concerto
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