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Michael Tilson Thomas, renowned conductor and composer, dies at 81

Renowned American conductor and composer Michael Tilson Thomas has died at 81

The Independent UK · Apr 23

From shiveringly vivid Mahler to the eclectic Hermes Experiment: our top classical recordings of 2025

Opera may be conspicuous by its absence, but the brilliance of Berlin Philharmonic’s Schoenberg and the exceptional South Korean Yunchan Lim gave us plenty to sink our teeth into this year

The Guardian - UK · Dec 11, 2025

LSO/Pascal review – from an effervescent marimba to funeral gongs in compelling new music concert

This programme featured the LSO Futures at its best – three world premieres by Omri Kochavi, Sasha Scott and Donghoon Shin, whose piano concerto was brought to sparkling life by human dynamo Seong-Jin Cho

The Guardian - UK · Nov 21, 2025

The Proms 2025 season offers plenty both to cherish and challenge

Alongside rareties such as Birtwistle’s Earth Dances and Reich’s The Desert Music there’s some intriguing and ambitious new music coming to this year’s festival

The Guardian - UK · Apr 23, 2025

The week in classical: BBCSO Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez; RLPO/ Hindoyan: Mahler Symphony No 3; Joyce DiDonato and Maxim Emelyanychev – review

An invigorating all-day tribute to the maverick French composer-conductor felt like the end of an era. Plus, heartfelt Mahler and a star mezzo’s Winterreise

The Guardian - UK · Apr 5, 2025

Pierre Boulez was exacting – but never in a bad tempo

Letters: Celia Craig shares a fond memory of the late French composer and conductor

The Guardian - UK · Apr 4, 2025

Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez review – still refreshingly alien

The hands of pianist Tamara Stefanovich executed a mesmerising ballet as the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Martyn Brabbins saluted this revolutionary composer

The Guardian - UK · Mar 31, 2025

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

Evening Standard · Mar 31, 2025

The Guardian view on 20th-century composers: play it again, maestro

Radio 3’s celebration of Pierre Boulez is a chance to revisit “difficult” music and break down divisions between old and new styles

The Guardian - UK · Mar 28, 2025

Boulez: Livre pour Quatuor album review – first complete recording illuminates its vertiginous contrasts

Moments of stillness and animation, spareness and exuberance, are highlighted in a confident performance of a work started in 1948 – now finally recorded with its fourth movement

The Guardian - UK · Mar 20, 2025