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BirminghamKazuki conducts Harmonium

© Andrew Fox
Copland, Tower, Price, Adams
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Kazuki Yamada; Janai Brugger; CBSO Chorus

LondonPoulenc and Adams

BBC Proms
Poulenc, Adams
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Kazuki Yamada; Lucas Jussen; Arthur Jussen; CBSO Chorus; Sydney Philharmonia Choirs

BirminghamKazuki Conducts Mahler's 2nd Symphony

© Andrew Fox
Mahler: Symphony no. 2 in C minor "Resurrection"
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Kazuki Yamada; Eleanor Lyons; Jess Dandy; CBSO Chorus

CoventryBritten’s War Requiem

© Garry Jones
Britten: War Requiem, Op.66
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Kazuki Yamada; Irina Lungu; Andrew Staples; Christian Gerhaher; CBSO Chorus

BirminghamCBSO Choral Christmas

© Andrew Fox
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Michael Seal; Jess Gillam; CBSO Chorus; CBSO Youth Chorus; CBSO Children's Chorus

ManchesterBBC Philharmonic - Beethoven Symphony No. 9

© Phil Sharp
Oliveros, Williams, Adams, Beethoven
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Anja Bihlmaier; Hera Hyesang Park; Jess Dandy; Robin Tritschler; Paul Grant
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Tumultuous Mahler 2 season finale from the BBC Philharmonic

John Storgårds conducts the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra © Chris Payne
John Storgårds conducts the BBC Philharmonic and CBSO Chorus in Mahler's mighty Resurrection Symphony. 
*****
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Yamada and the CBSO deliver an evening of stark contrasts

Kazuki Yamada and Fazıl Say © Jonathan Ferro
A concert of French music reveals – and suffers from – contrasting styles, attitudes and coherence in works by Ravel and Poulenc. 
***11
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From chaos to joy: Haydn’s The Creation in Birmingham

Kazuki Yamada conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra © Jonathan Ferro
Kazuki Yamada and the CBSO and Chorus weave Baroque and Romantic allusions into Haydn’s Classical masterpiece, in a superb, at times operatic, performance at Symphony Hall.
*****
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Joy triumphs as Yamada enthuses Birmingham with Beethoven

Kazuki Yamada conducts the CBSO © Andrew Fox
“Go big or go home!” A new season opens with the CBSO and Chorus giving an epic Beethoven Ninth at Birmingham's Symphony Hall. 
****1
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Showing Orff: a rip-roaring Carmina Burana from Yamada and the CBSO

Kazuki Yamada © BBC | Sisi Burn
Psalm 150 and a collection of outrageous 13th-century texts by boisterous young clergyman collide at the Royal Albert Hall in the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra's Prom. 
****1
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Heralding a new CBSO era: exuberant Dvořák and mature Mendelssohn

Kazuki Yamada © Andrew Fox

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.

****1
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