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Salome at the Barbican review: a gripping performance from a dream cast

5/5 Soprano Asmik Grigorian astounds in the title role, with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Antonio Pappano

Evening Standard

Salome review – a frankly astonishing concert performance

Asmik Grigorian heads one of the finest casts you could hope to hear, and every flicker of detail and colour in Strauss’s score hits home, as Antonio Pappano’s first season with the LSO climaxes in remarkable style

The Guardian - UK

Cypress Hill: ‘We made plenty of tracks when we weren’t high’

INTERVIEW: Hip-hop superstars Sen Dog and B-Real talk to Stevie Chick about surviving their early gang-banging days, making an orchestral album with the LSO, the concept of retirement and why they think there weren’t ‘any bigger stoners than the two of us’

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Winners, resigners, guest dogs and royal losers – take the Thursday quiz

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

LSO/Dudamel/Rebeka review – relentless orchestral fireworks and bright moments

Starry conductor Gustavo Dudamel’s appearance with the London Symphony Orchestra saw Strauss and Ravel given explosive power but limited depth

The Guardian - UK

The Excursions of Mr Brouček at the Barbican: 'laboured comedy in comic opera'

4/5 Simon Rattle’s latest Janáček opera with the LSO is one of his less frequently performed works and manages to triumph over the difficulties

Evening Standard

The Excursions of Mr Brouček review – Simon Rattle embraces Janáček’s baffling but beautiful opera

Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra’s survey of Janáček’s operas arrives at the zany Mr Brouček. With Peter Hoare in the lead role and the likes of Lucy Crowe and Aleš Briscein, the performances could not be bettered

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London Symphony Orchestra conductor Antonio Pappano goes underground — he takes the Tube to work

Conductor Antonio Pappano is leading the orchestra on a 13-concert U.S. tour to California, Florida and New York that ends this week with its first Carnegie Hall concerts since 2005

The Independent UK

LSO/Pappano review – salty breezes and a balmy Mediterranean sunset

An all-British programme – of Maconchy, Walton and Vaughan Williams – brought vivid colours and plenty of atmosphere

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: The Flying Dutchman; LSO/Harding, Trifonov; The Marriage of Figaro – review

Grand Theatre Leeds; Barbican; Coliseum, LondonAs funding cuts start to bite, Opera North’s forces pull together in an asylum-themed take on Wagner

The Guardian - UK

LSO/Harding/Trifonov review – nuanced and individual Schumann, then propulsive Mahler

Making a much-anticipated London appearance, Daniil Trifonov balanced lyricism and vigour in Schumann. Daniel Harding’s well-judged account of Mahler 7 caught the symphony’s sense of impending disintegration

The Guardian - UK

LSO/Pascal review – less is more with brand new Boulez homages

World premieres by Olga Neuwirth, Rafael Marina Arcaro and Lara Agar celebrated Pierre Boulez’s centenary, with Maxime Pascal a hyper-expressive conductor

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

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

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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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

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

The Guardian - UK

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

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