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Michael Tilson Thomas obituary

American conductor who brought high-octane dynamism to performances by the London Symphony Orchestra

The Guardian - UK

Axel Burrough obituary

Architect whose cultural projects included the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester and the remodelling of St Luke’s church for the LSO

The Guardian - UK

LSO/Hannigan review – intensely fluent soprano switches into full command as conductor

Barbara Hannigan began the evening singing an intense monodrama based on Han Kang’s The White Book, then led the orchestra through unsparing Ligeti and Strauss

The Guardian - UK

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LSO/ Wang/ Peltokoski review – Yuja Wang’s ferocious Rautavaara meets Peltokoski’s passionate Wagner

The pianist was electrifying in Rautavaara’s first concerto, while the young Finn conducted a condensed Ring with clever, slow-burn pacing

The Guardian - UK

LSO/Elim Chan: at the Barbican: Dazzling orchestration superbly directed by Chan

5/5 Elim Chan and London Symphony Orchestra expertly deliver a world premiere concerto from Colin Matthews, Bartók’s Dance Suite and a Rachmaninoff showstopper

Evening Standard

LSO/Treviño/ Kopatchinskaja review – he conducts with a coiled-spring muscularity

Robert Treviño’s sure hand led the London Symphony Orchestra through mystical Messiaen and cinematic Rachmaninoff with Patricia Kopatchinskaja precise and playful in Márton Illés’s Vont-tér

The Guardian - UK

London Symphony Orchestra announces John Harte as managing director

Harte, who was been Aurora orchestra’s chief executive since 2009, replaces Kathryn McDowell

The Guardian - UK

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Barbican to close its doors for a year for multimillion-pound renovation

London site’s theatre, music venue and galleries to close in June 2028, in first stage of upgrades before 50th anniversary

The Guardian - UK

LSO/Pascal review – from an effervescent marimba to funeral gongs in compelling new music concert

This programme featured the LSO Futures at its best – three world premieres by Omri Kochavi, Sasha Scott and Donghoon Shin, whose piano concerto was brought to sparkling life by human dynamo Seong-Jin Cho

The Guardian - UK

LSO/Adès review – the mood-boosting musical equivalent of a Sad lamp

Thomas Adès curated and conducted a dazzling concert of contemporary works by Alex Paxton and Poul Ruders, plus his own Aquifer alongside a radiant Sibelius 3

The Guardian - UK

LSO/Pappano review – big, bold and filled with blazing conviction

Bernstein’s Symphony No 3 evoked the Cuban missile crisis before Copland’s Third Symphony lifted us on a tide of postwar optimism

The Guardian - UK

Salome at the Barbican review: a gripping performance from a dream cast

5/5 Soprano Asmik Grigorian astounds in the title role, with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Antonio Pappano

Evening Standard

Salome review – a frankly astonishing concert performance

Asmik Grigorian heads one of the finest casts you could hope to hear, and every flicker of detail and colour in Strauss’s score hits home, as Antonio Pappano’s first season with the LSO climaxes in remarkable style

The Guardian - UK

Cypress Hill: ‘We made plenty of tracks when we weren’t high’

INTERVIEW: Hip-hop superstars Sen Dog and B-Real talk to Stevie Chick about surviving their early gang-banging days, making an orchestral album with the LSO, the concept of retirement and why they think there weren’t ‘any bigger stoners than the two of us’

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Winners, resigners, guest dogs and royal losers – take the Thursday quiz

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

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LSO/Dudamel/Rebeka review – relentless orchestral fireworks and bright moments

Starry conductor Gustavo Dudamel’s appearance with the London Symphony Orchestra saw Strauss and Ravel given explosive power but limited depth

Evening Standard

The Excursions of Mr Brouček at the Barbican: 'laboured comedy in comic opera'

4/5 Simon Rattle’s latest Janáček opera with the LSO is one of his less frequently performed works and manages to triumph over the difficulties

The Guardian - UK

The Excursions of Mr Brouček review – Simon Rattle embraces Janáček’s baffling but beautiful opera

Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra’s survey of Janáček’s operas arrives at the zany Mr Brouček. With Peter Hoare in the lead role and the likes of Lucy Crowe and Aleš Briscein, the performances could not be bettered

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London Symphony Orchestra conductor Antonio Pappano goes underground — he takes the Tube to work

Conductor Antonio Pappano is leading the orchestra on a 13-concert U.S. tour to California, Florida and New York that ends this week with its first Carnegie Hall concerts since 2005

The Guardian - UK

LSO/Pappano review – salty breezes and a balmy Mediterranean sunset

An all-British programme – of Maconchy, Walton and Vaughan Williams – brought vivid colours and plenty of atmosphere

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: The Flying Dutchman; LSO/Harding, Trifonov; The Marriage of Figaro – review

Grand Theatre Leeds; Barbican; Coliseum, LondonAs funding cuts start to bite, Opera North’s forces pull together in an asylum-themed take on Wagner

The Guardian - UK

LSO/Harding/Trifonov review – nuanced and individual Schumann, then propulsive Mahler

Making a much-anticipated London appearance, Daniil Trifonov balanced lyricism and vigour in Schumann. Daniel Harding’s well-judged account of Mahler 7 caught the symphony’s sense of impending disintegration

The Guardian - UK

LSO/Pascal review – less is more with brand new Boulez homages

World premieres by Olga Neuwirth, Rafael Marina Arcaro and Lara Agar celebrated Pierre Boulez’s centenary, with Maxime Pascal a hyper-expressive conductor

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: LSO/ Rattle; CBSO/ Volkov; Jenůfa – review

Simon Rattle celebrates his big birthday with two striking world premieres; the sea meets surrealism in Satie’s centenary year. Plus, intense Janáček and a rousing Covent Garden welcome

The Guardian - UK

LSO/Rattle review – old, new, borrowed and Boulez for conductor’s birthday concerts

World premieres by George Benjamin and Mark-Anthony Turnage were centrepieces of two concerts celebrating Rattle’s 70th, but it was symphonies – Brahms and Vaughan Williams – that were the high points

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