º£½ÇÊÓƵ

Load mobile navigation
PREMIUM

Christopher Morley

'Tis the season for choral societies
Retail & Consumer
The festive season is a busy time for Birmingham’s amateur choral societies, writes Christopher Morley.
Review: Ariadne Auf Naxos, Welsh National Opera at Birmingham Hippodrome
Retail & Consumer
Richard Strauss’ brilliant opera bringing two theatrical worlds into collision receives a brilliant staging in Neil Armfield’s production for Welsh National Opera.
Review: Joan Rodgers and Benedict Nelson, at Barber Institute, Birmingham University
Retail & Consumer
In theory it was a brilliant idea to turn this concert into a celebration of Mahler and Wolf, both great Viennese songsmiths, both born 150 years ago, and both disciples of their teacher Anton Bruckner.
A glorious 90 years for CBSO
Retail & Consumer
As the CBSO marks its 90th birthday, Christopher Morley celebrates its past, present and future.
Review: CBSO Youth Orchestra, at Symphony Hall
Retail & Consumer
At last the CBSO Youth Orchestra has revealed it has fallibilities like the rest of us, as Sunday’s well-attended concert showed.
The art of survival by the CBSO
Retail & Consumer
Spending cuts may hit the arts hard, but Christopher Morley is heartened that the CBSO can still produce a spectacular season.
Review: The Duenna, English Touring Opera at the Forum Theatre, Malvern
Retail & Consumer
I don’t think even man’s best friend would appreciate the spectacular dog’s dinner which is this Sheridan/Linley alleged opera The Duenna.
Review: Promised End, English Touring Opera at Forum Theatre, Malvern
Retail & Consumer
Some composers have grasped the nettle and written operas derived from Shakespeare’s King Lear.
Review: Joan Rodgers and Benedict Nelson, at the Barber Institute, University of Birmingham
Retail & Consumer
Review: Joan Rodgers and Benedict Nelson, at the Barber Institute, University of Birmingham
Review: Britten Sinfonia, at Birmingham Town Hall
Retail & Consumer
We all know how estimable a composer is James MacMillan, vouched for by so many magnificent works over the decades.
Review: Benjamin Grosvenor, at Forum Theatre, Malvern
Retail & Consumer
In Benjamin Grosvenor we have a pianist blessed not only with a prodigious technique, but also with a huge depth of musicianship and intellect – and this from a young man who celebrated his 18th birthday only last Saturday, delighting a packed Malvern audience.
Keys to success at Birmingham Conservatoire
Retail & Consumer
Christopher Morley meets the new head of keyboard study at Birmingham Conservatoire.
Review: Orchestra of the Swan, at Birmingham Town Hall
Retail & Consumer
Review: Orchestra of the Swan, at Birmingham Town Hall
Review: Arcadia, at St Giles’ Church, Downton-on-the-Rock
Retail & Consumer
Downton-on-the-Rock is quite an amazing place in the middle of nowhere.
Julian Lloyd Webber on the love of Elgar
Retail & Consumer
Julian Lloyd Webber discusses a musical hero as he takes up a role with the Orchestra of the Swan.
Review: Tristan Und Isolde, Philharmonia at Symphony Hall
Retail & Consumer
The Philharmonia Orchestra has been touring a fascinating presentation of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde to several prestigious locations, including Lucerne and Dortmund, and ending at its home base in London’s Royal Festival Hall.
Review: Melvyn Tan, at Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon
Retail & Consumer
Stratford has itself an enterprising Autumn Festival, with events encompassing music of all kinds: Classic FM-type favourites to cutting-edge contemporary, as well as folk and jazz.
Richard Baker is stepping up to the podium with BCMG
Retail & Consumer
Christopher Morley talks to conductor and composer Richard Baker as he prepares for a new season.
Review: An Evening With Elgar, at St Peter’s Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton
Retail & Consumer
Though the choristers were queuing up for Robert Plant’s autograph during the interval (he’d been spotted in the audience), the true star of the evening was Sir Edward Elgar.
Review: CBSO, at Symphony Hall
Retail & Consumer
Whoever programmed Tuesday’s CBSO concert is some kind of genius. We moved from grim oblivion (Rachmaninov’s Isle of the Dead to life-affirming energy (Lutoslawski’s Concerto for Orchestra), pivoting on both composers’ takes on Paganini’smost famous piece.
Review: Mitsuko Uchida, at Symphony Hall
Retail & Consumer
200th-birthday boys Schumann and Chopin were celebrated in Mitsuko Uchida’s absorbing recital to a packed Symphony Hall on Sunday afternoon, the former represented by a rarity, the latter by one of his greatest and most renowned masterpieces.
Review: Tristan Und Isolde, The Philharmonia Orchestra, at Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Retail & Consumer
Review: Tristan und Isolde, The Philharmonia Orchestra, at Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Review: Dream of Gerontius, Ex Cathedra at Birmingham Town Hall
Retail & Consumer
Was a trick missed here, or were the logistics just too daunting to arrange?
Dream come true for Edward Gardner
Retail & Consumer
The new principal guest conductor of the CBSO reveals his plans to Christopher Morley.