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Christopher Morley

Review: Birmingham Conservatoire, Repertoire Orchestra, at Adrian Boult Hall
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Sometimes it needs the freshness of young people to revitalise our perceptions of well-loved pieces of music which have lived long in the memory.
Review: Don Giovanni at Longborough Opera
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The achievements and enterprise of Longborough Opera are now world-renowned, but we continue to marvel at what this tiny summer festival, nestling deep in the Cotswolds, manages to bring off year by year.
Review: Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra, at Adrian Boult Hall
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Two works premiered within three years of each other, yet looking in totally opposite directions.
Birmingham Conservatoire's ode to joy
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Birmingham Conservatoire hosts a musical tribute to a number of familiar faces, writes Christopher Morley.
Review: Lohengrin, CBSO at Symphony Hall
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At the end of July Andris Nelsons makes his debut in Bayreuth, opening this year’s Festival at the shrine of Wagnerdom with performances of Lohengrin.
Review: The Poisoned Kiss, at Barber Institute, University of Birmingham
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You have to wonder what Vaughan Williams was on when he composed The Poisoned Kiss.
Review: Jonathan Nott/CBSO, at Symphony Hall, Birmingham
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Solihull-born Jonathan Nott conducts in Symphony Hall for the first time, leading the CBSO through a mightily impressive account of Bruckner's Symphony no.4.
Review: CBSO/The Pathetique, at Symphony Hall
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CBSO serve up a treat with Strauss's Oboe Concerto and Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony.
Review: Festival of English Song, at Ludlow Assembly Rooms
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Christopher Morley looks back at four days in Ludlow crammed with delights – concerts, talks, discussions, films, walks and educational work.
CBSO's Andris Nelsons in demand at the world's biggest stages
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The success and popularity of the CBSO’s principal conductor Andris Nelsons is leading him to performances across the world.
Review: Alfred Brendel, at Birmingham Town Hall
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Pianist Alfred Brendel delivered an engrossing lecture with copious musical examples.
Review: Alexander Vedernikov/CBSO at the Symphony Hall
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Even when it fields an apparently third-eleven of players in certain sections, as it did in Thursday’s concert, the CBSO can still bring things off.
Review: Orchestra of the Swan, at the Spring Sounds Festival, Stratford-upon-Avon
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Heretical perhaps to suggest, but I wonder if the players of the usually excellent Orchestra of the Swan are perhaps overworking themselves?
Celebration of song at Ludlow's English Song Weekend
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Christopher Morley previews three forthcoming musical highlights including Ludlow’s glorious English Song Weekend.
Review: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, at Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham
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Monday’s decampment to the cultural theme park which is the Midlands Arts Centre saw all BCMG’s regular fans plus a gaggle of new faces crowding the theatre.
Stephen Hough is safe and sound
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Stephen Hough recalls how he nearly lost his latest work – and his life – in a car crash.
Moment to savour for conductor Kenneth Woods
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Kenneth Woods will live out a childhood dream when he conducts the Orchestra of the Swan in Stratford.
Classical Review: CBSO/Symphonic Dances: III at the Symphony Hall
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The idea of a full-blown, sultry Argentian tango being written by a composer from the chilly Baltic might appear somewhat unlikely.
Review: Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius, at Worcester Cathedral (Bromsgrove Festival)
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At first sight it might have appeared a bizarre decision to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Bromsgrove Festival with Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius, a work which sets Cardinal Newman’s lengthy poem on the horrors of dying and the purging of a willing soul.
Mood music at Birmingham's Symphony Hall
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Christopher Morley looks at the highlights of a busy week ahead in the region’s classical calendar.
Another string to Catherine Pollard's bow
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Enterprising cellist Catherine Pollard is organising a concert to help her live out her passion, writes Christopher Morley.
Review: Mass in B Minor, by Ex Cathedra, at Birmingham Town Hall
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Bach's Mass in B Minor, performed by Ex Cathedra, at Birmingham Town Hall
Review: Soloists of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, at Birmingham Town Hall
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WITH complexities too technical to describe in this space, Bach’s Musical Offering is one of the most intellectual works ever composed.
Review: Space Odyssey, at Stratford-upon-Avon Civic Hall
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There was an uncanny topicality about Friday afternoon’s astonishing adventure about travellers stranded in remote parts desperate to get home.