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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

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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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At home with Simon Rattle: ‘There are still things I feel are beyond me’

The world-famous conductor, 70 this week, on family life in Berlin, why music keeps you young and the bleak outlook for the arts in Britain

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LSO/Pappano review – postwar Vaughan Williams at his most ferocious and compelling

Antonio Pappano delivered a masterclass in dynamic control with VW’s final symphony, leaving the perennially popular Elgar cello concerto that followed feeling almost toothless

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La Rondine review – Pappano and the LSO make Puccini glitter

The London Symphony Orchestra’s concert performance under their chief conductor made a compelling case for Puccini’s little-performed opera

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La Rondine at the Barbican review: this little-known Puccini work deserves a regular place in opera's canon

5/5 An Antonio Pappano favourite, Puccini’s eigth opera builds to the kind of heart-stopping climax familiar from the composer’s better-known works

Evening Standard

LSO/Volkov review – Lachenmann’s My Melodies offers eerie mutterings, brutal force and unpitched sounds

The work is immensely taxing for orchestra and audience alike but was performed with precision and virtuosity, while, in the second half, a lean and lithe Beethoven’s Seventh made for a gracious companion piece

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LSO/Mäkelä review – dazzle and drama, but always backed by exceptional musicality

A turbo-charged performance from the young conductor, carefully paced and full of bold choices, brought out the beauty and the terror of Stravinsky’s score

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Nonclassical at 20 review – synths, screams and bubble wrap as record label celebrates with the LSO

Gabriel Prokofiev’s avant garde record label marked its 20th birthday with an engaging and energetic scaled up showcase

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LSO/Tilson Thomas review – emotional depth as Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony gleams

The London Symphony Orchestra’s Conductor Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas celebrated his 80th birthday with an authoritative but restrained account of Mahler’s Second with soloists Alice Coote and Siobhan Stagg

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LSO/Pappano/Wang/Lapwood review – high on feelgood factor

Soloists Yuja Wang and Anna Lapwood brought style and spectacle to Rachmaninov and Saint-Saëns

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LSO/Pappano review – new era begins with ghosts and great beauty

Chief conductor’s kicks off his first season with the London Symphony Orchestra with energy and thrilling drama in beguiling Sibelius and a new work from James MacMillan

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“It’s funny because it’s true”: (B) Real life imitates art

Cypress Hill collab with the LSO, as predicted by the Simpsons

MusicRadar

'Simpsons' And Social Media Seal Cypress Hill Collaboration

It is an unlikely musical pairing born out of a joke on an episode of "The Simpsons" 28 years ago, and of social media interactions some two decades later.

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"We've been trying to invite Peter Frampton!" Cypress Hill discuss bringing one of the Simpsons' most iconic jokes to life by performing with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall

Cypress Hill are set to make a 28-year-old Simpsons joke reality tonight (July 10) with their London Symphony Orchestra-supported performance at the Royal Albert Hall

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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

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LSO/Adès review – Adès’s violin concerto beguiles in Mutter’s silvery sound

The UK premiere of the composer’s concerto written for Anne-Sophie Mutter was placed alongside two of Stravinsky’s ballet scores in this musically rich and vivid concert

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LSO/Antonio Pappano at the Barbican review: the incoming director conjured the richest sounds from the players

If orchestras were football teams, the LSO would certainly be in the running for the Premier League title

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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

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‘Misguided wokeism’ puts people off opera, says top London conductor

LSO’s Antonio Pappano says many in UK are ‘embarrassed’ by art form and suspicious of cultural achievements

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British music, birthdays and building work: LSO announce first season under Pappano

Boulez’s 100th and Rattle’s 70th are among the highlights of the LSO’s new season with chief conductor Antonio Pappano in which British music is a strong thread. The orchestra also announced an £8m redevelopment of LSO St Lukes

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“It’s a dream come true, a collaboration only The Simpsons could have predicted”: Cypress Hill are making a 1996 Simpsons joke a reality by booking a show with the London Symphony Orchestra

Sometimes, real life can be stranger than fiction

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Cypress Hill To Perform With London Symphony Orchestra In 2024

Cypress Hill and the London Symphony Orchestra will perform together at the Royal Albert Hall, fulfilling a long-awaited prediction from The Simpsons.

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The week in classical: LSO/ Rattle; The Rake’s Progress; The Flying Dutchman; Elena Urioste and Tom Poster – review

Dread runs through John Adams’s pulsating new ‘short symphony’; Stravinsky’s Rake has plenty of company at ETO; Bryn Terfel returns as the mythical Dutchman; and two lockdown favourites bring the house down

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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

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