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Christopher Morley

Worthy homage to war masterpiece
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Two recordings featuring CBSO conductor Andris Nelsons prove once again what a musical force he is, writes Christopher Morley.
Review: Belcea Quartet Second night at Birmingham Town Hall
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Flagwavers for Haydn and Bartok will disagree, but surely the greatest composers ever of string quarters were Beethoven and Shostakovich.
Review: Thomas Trotter, Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir at Birmingham Town Hall
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City organist Thomas Trotter is rapidly reaching his 700th lunchtime recital, but as this milestone approaches he generously gave over his latest concert to the Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir, directed by the encouraging but never overstating Paul Spicer.
Review: CBSO/Nelsons Conducts Tchaikovsky at Symphony Hall
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In many concerto performances, soloist and conductor are like ships that pass in the night, dutifully undertaking the task in hand, pocketing the money, and then moving on.
Birmingham Royal Ballet Sinfonia orchestra is one big happy family
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Christopher Morley meets the conductors and director of one of the hardest working orchestras in the country, the Birmingham Royal Ballet Sinfonia.
Review: CBSO at Symphony Hall
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For decades Frank Bridge only featured on our radar as the rigorous composition teacher to a youthful Benjamin Britten, but more recently, thanks partly to the efforts of Sakari Oramo and the CBSO, we have come to value his own works.
Review: Ian Bostridge at Birmingham Town Hall
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Never has the thread running through a recital been more appropriate than on this freezing evening in the January murk.
REVIEW: CBSO/Nelsons Conducts Tchaikovsky, at Birmingham Symphony hall
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In many concerto performances, soloist and conductor are like ships that pass in the night, dutifully undertaking the task in hand, pocketing the money, and then moving on.
CBSO concert memory is one to treasure
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A recording of an anniversary performance by the CBSO of Britten's War Requiem is a triumph, writes Christopher Morley.
Review: Britten Sinfonia at Birmingham Town Hall
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Admiration for the pianist Angela Hewitt just grows and grows, and not only on the audience side of the footlights.
Review: A Boy was Born, Ex Cathedra at Birmingham Town Hall
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On paper the menu looked mouth-watering, but there was always the niggle that an all-Britten diet might prove indigestible.
Review: CBSO/The Birmingham Beethoven Cycle: Symphonies 4 and 5 at Symphony Hall
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After a fortnight or so of festive froth it was good to get back to matters a little more artistically rewarding, and nothing could be more capable of providing such riches as the CBSO's latest instalment of its Beethoven cycle under Andris Nelsons, broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and recorded for the Orfeo label.
Celebrating genius of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears
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Birmingham will be kicking off national concerts marking the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten this weekend.
Midlands music celebrates Britten and Wagner
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Celebrations for classical giants Britten and Wagner dominate a lively musical spring season in the Midlands.
Birmingham's classical music highlights of 2012
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The first half of 2012 glittered with celebrations of Symphony Hall鈥檚 21st birthday (and chilling reminders that those of us here at its birth are now that many years older).
Simon Halsey celebrates 100th Christmas concert
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CBSO chorus director Simon Halsey has a big vision for Birmingham as he celebrates his 100th Christmas concert with the orchestra.
Review: Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra at Adrian Boult Hall
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The trouble with compiling a completist programme is that you might well end up with a dud in the necessity to make up the numbers, and this was certainly the case with at least one of the offerings in the Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra's exposition of works by "The Mighty Handful".
Review: CBSO/Benevolent Fund Concert at Symphony Hall
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There are two concertos Beethoven almost wrote. One is the clarinet concerto enshrined within the Fourth Symphony, the other is the cello concerto desperate to escape from the dire Triple Concerto, which chugs along like bad Weber, and there鈥檚 nothing worse than that.
Review: CBSO/Nelsons conducts Bruckner鈥檚 Eighth, at Symphony Hall, Birmingham
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With Andris Nelsons succumbing to a viral infection, Simone Young came galloping over the horizon to rescue the CBSO鈥檚 planned performance of Bruckner鈥檚 massive Eighth Symphony.
Beethoven concert to mend an ill wind
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From dental work to repetitive strain injury, an orchestra needs regular health treatment to perform.
Review: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group at Elgar Concert Hall, Birmingham University
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Birmingham Contemporary Music Group's first appearance at the welcoming and versatile Elgar Concert Hall in the University of Birmingham's magnificent new Bramall Music Building was a glittering affair, with two 20th-century classics attracting a vibrant audience.
New venues spicing up Birmingham's musical festivities
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'Tis the season to be jolly excited as Birmingham's expanded set of concert halls bursts into festive life.
Review: CBSO/Benedetti Plays Szymanowski at Symphony Hall
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Central Europe was the destination for Wednesday's CBSO concert, but before the main meat the pre-concert audience enjoyed one of England's most romantic symphonies, Parry's Fifth of 1912, performed by the Birmingham Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra under Michael Seal.
Ex Cathedra bringing the power of song to Birmingham schools
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Transforming the lives of children through music has been a key part of the work of choir Ex Cathedra.