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The overriding impression of Widmann’s return to Birmingham’s Symphony Hall is one of a man at complete ease and enjoying his music. 

Gemma New and Christian Tetzlaff deliver an intense programme of music depicting 20th-century tension and struggle, with the help of a flawless CBSO. 

WNO delivers a well-performed production of Mozart’s Magic Flute with some fresh ideas, but other which dilute it. 

Behzod Abduraimov impresses in Rachmaninov's evergreen Second Piano Concerto.

Kazuki Yamada returns to the CBSO with an ever-popular orchestral suite, an under-appreciated concerto, and a fabulous pianist in Alexandre Kantorow to play it. 

With two very well-known pieces, could Gabriela Montero, Gražintyė-Tyla and the CBSO find ways of keeping them interesting? The answer was a resounding ‘Yes’.