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CBSO/Yamada review – Poulenc and Adams pairing is stylish, witty and thrilling

Lucas and Arthur Jussen brought fun and energy to Poulenc’s Concerto for Two Pianos, and John Adams’ Harmonium was monumental and moving in the City of Birmingham Orchestra and Chorus’ Prom under their chief conductor Kazuki Yamada

The Guardian - UK

Kazuki conducts Harmonium review – John Adams’ wild ride centres an elegant showcase of US composers

Adams’ maximal minimalism was framed by Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man and Joan Tower’s parallel feminist statement, with Florence Price’s The Heart of A Woman adding a Broadway flourish

The Guardian - UK

CBSO/Yamada review – Moore’s trombone adventures into Fujikura’s sonic oceans

Dai Fujikura’s elusive trombone concerto was given its UK premiere by Peter Moore, who made its colours and textures sing; a persuasive but perhaps too sunny reading of Mahler’s first symphony followed in the concert’s second half

The Guardian - UK

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Lim/CBSO/Yamada review – wonderful Rachmaninov and a swirling Sinfonia

Young Korean Yunchan Lim naturally conjured a willing audience into silence with his commanding range after an alarm disrupted the popular pianist’s Prom

The Guardian - UK

BCMG/Yamada review – flutter tonguing, fragrant dissonances and frogs

The centrepiece of this all-Asian programme from the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group was the world premiere of Dai Fujikura’s Shō Concerto

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Prom 14: CBSO/ Yamada; Prom 16: BBCNOW/ Manze; L’incoronazione di Poppea

Why do some Proms sound better in the Albert Hall and others at home on the radio? Elsewhere, Grimeborn gets off to a smouldering start

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Prom 14: CBSO/Yamada review – Smyth beguiles and Rachmaninov ravishes

Ethel Smyth’s Concerto for Violin and Horn was deftly handled by the CBSO’s chief conductor designate Kazuki Yamada and soloists Elena Urioste and Ben Goldscheider

The Guardian - UK

BBC Proms: CBSO/Yamada - an exemplary performance of Ethyl Smith’s subtle and original work

The orchestra’s handling of both Smyth and Rachmaninov’s work was revelatory in different ways

Evening Standard

CBSO/Yamada review – chief conductor-in-waiting brings spirit but not subtlety

The Japanese conductor who takes over in Birmingham next year already has a strong connection with the players; while soprano Fatma Said impressed in Mozart arias

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