London Philharmonic Orchestra
Paavo Järvi to succeed Edward Gardner at helm of London Philharmonic
The Estonian will take over as chief conductor of ‘this wonderful historic orchestra’ from the 2028/29 season, when Gardner’s current contract ends
LPO/Benjamin review – music of crystalline clarity and hedonistic pleasure
Classical Mixtape: A Live Takeover review – one queue after another mars orchestral jamboree
LPO/Jurowski review – Mahler’s 10th is full of colour, and the composer’s pain, in Barshai’s completion
Rudolf Barshai’s audacious completion of Mahler’s final unfinished symphony slathers on the colour, and its diverse timbral details came over loud and clear thanks to the LPO’s playing and Vladimir Jurowski’s textural lucidity
London Philharmonic Orchestra/ Gardner review – muscular Emperor sets up edge-of-the-seat finale
The LPO season opener saw Yefim Bronfman on keen form in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 5, before the orchestra delivered a white-hot, bittersweet Tchaikovsky Fifth
LPO/Gardner/Akhmetshina review – Tippett’s rose lake sounds glorious
Káťa Kabanová review – furtive groping and a wing-bloodied angel stalk flawed staging of Janáček’s opera
Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem, Winter Words (arr Holloway), etc album review – confirms Gardner’s status as an outstanding conductor of Britten
The first recording of Robin Holloway’s imaginative orchestration of the song cycle Winter Words is fascinating, and completes a superb new disc of Britten’s music
LPO/Gardner review – no recording could match the visceral thrill of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony live
LPO/Jurowski review – conflict and loss power Russian-Ukrainian concert
LPO/Edusei review – devastating Wijeratne and Martinů meet zany fun with Zappa
LPO/Guggeis review – Wagner and Strauss touches both body and soul
LPO/Jurowski review – a fervent treatment of two works rich in intensity
Tippett: Piano Concerto; Symphony No 2 album review – the energy of the music is irrepressible
LPO/Kremer/Roslavets/Boreyko review – an evening of raw and uncompromising music
LPO/Gardner/Ólafsson review – fierce Brahms and a rich Waley-Cohen premiere
Joyce DiDonato sings Berlioz review – you could almost feel the asp’s poison seeping into her veins
The mezzo-soprano’s hair-raising performance of The Death of Cleopatra was a tour de force, a suitable curtain-raiser for the LPO’s new season, with Edward Gardner and orchestra on fine form
‘Few are mad enough to take it on’ – Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor on Busoni’s Piano Concerto
There’s an invisible choir, text from a Danish play about Aladdin, and it’s inspired by classical architecture, nature and quasi-Egyptian iconography – no wonder Busoni’s Piano Concerto is rarely performed. Now the colossus is coming to the Proms
The week in classical: The Merry Widow; Aldeburgh festival – review
Thomas Allen steals a witty, sparkling new production of Léhar’s masterpiece, and a cosmic world premiere from Judith Weir lives up to her star billing
Götterdämmerung review – Jurowski’s six-year completion of Wagner’s Ring cycle was well worth the wait
Jurowski’s attention to detail across four-and-a-half hours brought the darkness of Wagner’s score thrillingly to life
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