The CBSO’s live-wire music director on her new work-life balance, the inexorable rise of female conductors – and the impact of yet more funding cuts On a blustery March morning, a young woman in ...

Kazuki Yamada begins a full Mahler Symphony Cycle with Symphony No.1. Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius opens the season with the full CBSO Chorus. Building on successful past collaborations, the CBSO ...

Andris Nelsons’s farewell concerts as CBSO music director are devoted to Mahler, whose Third Symphony bristled here with combative energy Andris Nelsons was hardly known internationally when he ...

The UK’s second city will lose almost all its council funding for the arts and music over the next two years, in a move that has been termed “cultural vandalism” by creatives. World-leading arts ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Talent scouts from music agencies could do worse than set up shop in Birmingham. While the world’s leading ...

Legendary investor Warren Buffett advises to be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. One way we can try to measure the level of fear in a given stock is through a ...

This was the CBSO’s first performance of the piece since 1957, and only its third since the premiere. Draw your own conclusions from that: the opening movement, in particular, doesn’t really cohere as ...

Still, if any conductor can make a programme like this fly, it’s Nicholas McGegan. His relationship with the CBSO goes back to the Rattle era, and whether it’s Handel’s Water Music with a full ...

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2013/14 Birmingham concert season, the sixth featuring acclaimed music director Andris Nelsons. Highlights include the Mendelssohn symphony ...

Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...