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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. 

Charismatic saxophonist Jess Gillam pulls in the crowds, but the CBSO proves it has ‘pizzazz’ of its own under flamboyant conductor Eduardo Strausser.

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. 

Nicola Benedetti and the CBSO under Kazuki Yamada bring impressive levels of sensitivity and honesty to Dvořák’s New World Symphony and Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto.

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’. 

Klangschön aber letztlich zu kalkuliert, um Emotionen zu wecken – so präsentierte sich das City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra zu Gast im Stefaniensaal.