Debussy festival – CBSO salute a genius with sweeping celebration
The city’s classical institutions delivered inspired performances of all of Debussy’s orchestral and chamber music, and paid tribute to his musical legacy
CBSO/Adès review – Barry’s organ concerto is a gripping anarchic journey
The composer’s new concerto, with ticking metronomes and a wheezy harmonium, was thrilling, especially in these acoustics
The week in classical: CBSO/ Gražinytė-Tyla; LSO/Rattle; Harlem Quartet – review
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and the CBSO hit the road with Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, also performed by the LSO and Simon Rattle
CBSO/Gražinytė-Tyla; LSO/Alsop; LPO/ Renes review – the Sheku and Mirga show
The remarkable young cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and the CBSO’s irresistible music director are a dream double act
CBSO/Gražinytė-Tyla review – trio of trebles bring wide-eyed wonder to Mahler
Three boy singers added a new perspective to Mahler’s Fourth, in a programme that also featured two marvellously refined Sibelius miniatures
Prom 50: CBSO/Gražinytė-Tyla review – fierce solos and jagged riffs, superbly played
An unconventional programme of Beethoven and Stravinsky alongside a fresh, discomfiting work from Gerald Barry proves thrillingly dramatic
CBSO/Collon review – frisson of theatricality for Holst’s quiet masterpiece
Yvonne Howard and James Rutherford brought steely power to the mystical chamber opera Sāvitri, though a fierce Planets suite lacked depth
CBSO/Grazinyte-Tyla review – precision and power unite for symphonic storm
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla commanded orchestra and audience alike in a programme that spanned work by Mahler, Hadyn and her own Lithuanian compatriots
Proms 55 & 62; Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra/Chan; Berlin Philharmonic/Rattle – review
The CBSO’s dazzling new music director Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla led the way in a memorable week on the podium
City of Birmingham SO/Gražinytė-Tyla review – spellbinding, bewitching
Precise yet expressive playing in this remarkable concert climaxed in an astonishing song cycle by Hans Abrahamsen
CBSO/Gardner: Falstaff review – played in the highest of end-of-term spirits
A first-class cast joined the CBSO for this concert performance of Verdi’s final masterpiece, and extracted every ounce of comic possibility from the music
CBSO/Morlot review – rich, deeply textured and all-encompassing
Orchestral beauties swirl and build in an ever-changing score as the UK sees its premiere of John Luther Adams’ glorious Pulitzer-winning Become Ocean
CBSO/Volkov review – wonderfully agile quest for identity
Soloist Alexandre Tharaud brings all the right moves to Hans Abrahamsen’s atmospheric concerto for piano left hand
CBSO/Collon review – Mahler’s unfinished delivered with authority
Symphony Hall, BirminghamNicholas Collon’s reading of Deryck Cooke’s 10th symphony version was a reminder that it deserves canonical status
CBSO/Chauhan review – new Golijov cello concerto given fine debut
Alpesh Chauhan led a sympathetic performance of Osvaldo Golijov’s sentimental work Azul