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Michael Tilson Thomas leads the Philharmonic in the New York premiere of his song cycle Meditations on Rilke.

The LSO’s Conductor Laureate, Michael Tilson Thomas, takes his time over Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, while Lukás Vondráček seeks out the extremes in Liszt’s First Piano Concerto.

Recently recovered from emergency brain surgery, the popular conductor stepped back onto the podium with the New York Philharmonic this weekend in performances that ranged from the skilled to the sublime.

The London Symphony Orchestra served up a mixed American–Russian programme that highlighted a long-standing relationship between them and their Conductor Laureate.