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Evgeny Svetlanov International Conducting Competition

Kazuki conducts Harmonium  

Puccini's Tosca by CBSO

Prepare to be shaken, stirred and uplifted by this programme of spectacular orchestral works, led by the brilliant Dima Slobodeniouk. We start with the raw emotion of Martinu’s wartime lament, Memorial to Lidice. Tchaikovsky’s stunning Violin Concerto famously flopped at its premiere (one critic remarked that it ‘stank to the ear’) yet today it is an absolute favourite

Stravinsky goes to Hollywood! Ilan Volkov conducts The Rite of Spring, in a concert bursting with colour.

Philip Glass' Double Timpani Concerto

Strauss & Wagner

Kazuki conducts Rachmaninoff & Bartók

City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Edward Gardner Conducts John Adams' Harmonielehre