Andris Nelsons
A Boy Was Born: Britten's War Requiem - City of Birmingham Symphony - Symphony Hall
“My subject is War, and the pity of War.” Benjamin Britten composed his War Requiem for the new Coventry Cathedral, but it’s become one of the defining achievements of modern music, a timeless and profoundly moving exploration of man’s inhumanity
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra: The Leningrad Symphony - Royal Festival Hall
Written in the Second World War during the gruelling siege of Leningrad, Shostakovich's powerful Symphony No 7 has since transcended the specifics of its conception to become a universal expression of man's survival during times of conflict.
Viva Italia! - City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra - Symphony Hall
Roman holidays: when northern composers headed for Italy, it never took them long to go native. Felix Mendelssohn wrote a symphony that positively dances in the sunlight, and Tchaikovsky had barely left his hotel room before his head was fizzing with tune
Andris Nelsons and Mitsuko Uchida - Symphony Hall
To call Mitsuko Uchida a legend is to sell her short: she’s a byword for freshness, intelligence, and the special poetry that comes from a lifetime’s devotion to the greatest music ever written. Here, she makes her long-awaited return to Birmingham wi
Christoph Waltz to direct Renee Fleming's Covent Garden farewell
So, the rumour was true. Oscar winner and Kommissar Rex guest star Christoph Waltz will direct a new Rosenkavalier at the Royal Opera House in 2016.
Dvorák: Symphonie Nr. 9, 'Aus der Neuen Welt" - Heldenlied, Op. 111 - Andris Nelsons
Andris Nelsons has made no secret of the help he received in the early years of his conducting career from Mariss Jansons, and he now appears regularly as a guest with Jansons' current orchestras, the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Bavarian RadiAndris Nelsons has made no secret of the help he received in the early years of his conducting career from Mariss Jansons, and he now appears regularly as a guest with Jansons' current orchestras, the Royal Concertge: Symphony No 9; A Hero's Song – review
Andris Nelsons, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchstra (BR-Klassik) Andris Nelsons has made no secret of the help he received in the early years of his conducting career from Mariss Jansons, and he now appears regularly as a guest with Jansons' current orc
The Rest is Noise Festival: ART OF FEAR - Southbank Centre
Music of oppression and war ‘The world turns on its dark side’, proclaims the opening movement of Michael Tippett’s pacifist oratorio A Child of Our Time, written during the darkest period of death, destruction and cruelty the world had ever seen
Brimingham Beethoven Cycle: Symphonies 6 & 7 - City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra - Symphony Hall
From spring-fresh opening to serene finish, there’s no experience in music more life-affirming than Beethoven’s lovely Pastoral Symphony. And there’s none more gloriously, exuberantly, physical than his unstoppable Seventh. Andris Nelsons’ journey