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BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Oramo/ Son review – rainy days, rolling hills and enchanted creatures

Judith Weir’s salute to the Indian monsoon kicked off a concert on nature and folk themes, Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son brought poetic flourishes to works by Bartók and Finzi, while the magical Firebird made a rousing finale

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BBCSO/Schuldt review – Phibbs cello concerto brings cohesion to uneven programme

Clemens Schuldt kept the volume high in an inconsistent evening in which the BBC Symphony Orchestra ranged across Tchaikovsky’s Hamlet, Mel Bonis’s Ophélie and a suite from Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier

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BBCSO/Elder review – like a Klimt painting in sound

The final concert of the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s season brought us Franz Schreker’s sensual and elusive Chamber Symphony and Mahler’s intense Das Lied von der Erde

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Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez at the Barbican review — the BBC at its best

5/5 Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a tribute to the legendary composer

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BBCSO/Brabbins: Italian Radicals review – politically charged, expressive and technical

Works by Luigi Dallapiccola, Bruno Maderna, Luigi Nono and Luciano Berio got the BBC Symphony Orchestra Total Immersion treatment

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Song from the Uproar review – Missy Mazzoli’s first opera is dazzlingly original

The culmination of the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Total Immersion day exploring the US composer’s music, her first opera was obliquely staged but proved poetic and potent

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Colin Bradbury obituary

Principal clarinet of the BBC Symphony Orchestra for more than 30 years and exponent of the instrument’s lesser-known repertory

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There is no one with power to fight for classical music at the BBC now. It’s as if Herod runs the creche

Savage cuts suggest a cadre of bosses has forgotten what public service broadcasting is, says Paul Hughes, former director of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and the BBC Singers

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BBCSO/Watts/Wigglesworth review – a striking song cycle that finds divine in the everyday

Elizabeth Watts’s buoyant soprano drew us in to this poignant performance of Ryan Wigglesworth’s work Till Dawning, based on the poetry of George Herbert

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BBCSO/Karabits review – Ukraine speaks out through its music

The BBC Symphony Orchestra’s guest conductor Kirill Karabits and pianist Anna Fedorova brought music from their homeland to an enthusiastic audience

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Total Immersion: Sibelius the Storyteller review – hair-raising climaxes and soaring operatic intensity

A day of concerts led by Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra explored the Finnish composer’s tone poems and songs, and made for a vivid - and special - experience

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Prom 66: BBCSO/Canellakis review – Jolas puts her tongue in her cheek

Betsy Jolas’s bTunes is a witty ode to our attention-sapping times, while Karina Canellakis commanded Mahler’s First Symphony with an expressive and sharply etched performance

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Anti-empire, anti-fascist, pro-suffragist: the stunning secret life of Proms staple Jerusalem

Why is Jerusalem lumped in with the jingoism of Last Night of the Proms? William Blake wrote a heretical, anti-establishment anthem that was later gifted to the suffragists and used to rouse fighters in the Spanish civil war

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Prom 44: BBCSO/Oramo review – Ethel Smyth’s Mass in D played with gravitas and grandeur

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus brought dynamic shading to Smyth’s at times forbidding work, and conjured sensuous beauty from Debussy’s Nocturnes

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Prom 39: BBCSO/Oramo review – a soaring tale of three cities … and a blackbird

Oramo’s Prom of English music included the UK premiere of Turnage’s Time Flies; with an encore of Paul McCartney’s Blackbird from tubist Constantin Hartwig

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Prom 26: BBCSO/Bychkov review – ambitious and striking Czech theme

Julian Anderson’s new Prague-inspired symphony built to a huge climax, but ultimately felt over-inflated, while the verve and energy of the Labèque sisters’ performance of Martinů was a little lost in the huge hall

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Total Immersion: Frank Zappa review – a suitably eclectic day-long tribute

From a film Q&A punctuated by musicians in the audience to barnstorming performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Guildhall students, this was a stunning celebration of his orchestral works

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