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Christopher Morley

Opera company celebrates with an Italian double-bill
Edgbaston
Midland Opera is celebrating its 70th birthday this year and can trace its roots back even further
Review: CBSO at Birmingham Symphony Hall
CBSO
This wonderful programme which was heartwarming confirmation of the conducting gifts of Alpesh Chauhan, alumnus of both the Birmingham Music Service and the CBSO Youth Orchestra, as well as the Royal Northern College of Music.
Search to unearth piano's history is striking a chord
Retail & Consumer
Birmingham Conservatoire has been trying to solve a mystery relating to a 150-year-old piano which belonged to composer Schumann's wife.
Birmingham conductor's 'excited' about Italian job
CBSO
Still only in his mid-20s, Birmingham-born Alpesh Chauhan will soon take charge of an orchestra in Parma after impressing with the CBSO.
Review: CBSO at the Symphony Hall
CBSO
CBSO launched its 2016-17 season with a stunning programme placing Beethoven alongside English music.
Review: Folk Songs and Finzi, City of Birmingham Choir at the Elgar Hall
Retail & Consumer
Vaughan Williams' Six Studies in English Folk Song for cor anglais and strings proved a rambling, nondescript addition to proceedings, before we moved on to acknowledgement of the Great War in Harold Darke's As the Leaves Fall.
Review: Brant International Piano Competition Final at Birmingham Town Hall
Birmingham Town Hall
There was not much to quicken the listening juices during Saturday afternoon's 37th final of the competition.
Review: Ian Venables Premier at Royal Grammar School, Worcester
Retail & Consumer
The latest offering from Ian Venables as surpassed even his own amazingly high benchmark.
Review: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group at CBSO Centre
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
The CBSO Centre was buzzing in a huge display of affection for Jackie and Stephen Newbould, retiring after nearly 30 years at the helm of Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.
Review: Jiaxin Lloyd Webber and Rebeca Omordia at Birmingham and Midland Institute
Retail & Consumer
A sparse audience at the Birmingham and Midland Institute heard impassioned accounts of sonatas by John Ireland and Sergei Rachmaninov from cellist Jiaxin Lloyd Webber and pianist Rebeca Omordia.
Review: Moscow State Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall
Birmingham Symphony Hall
As we discovered in Saturday's concert from the remarkable Moscow State Symphony Orchestra Stephen Johnson is an accomplished composer.
Dates set for Mirga to pick up the baton in Birmingham
CBSO
Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla tells Christopher Morley why she plans to concentrate solely on her ‘dream’ job with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Review: Sir James Galway at Adrian Boult Hall
Birmingham City University
The celebrated flute player kicked off the City of Sounds Festival with an enchanting performance
Review: Abrahamsen & Mahler, CBSO at Symphony Hall
CBSO
The CBSO's latest offering proved an absolute triumph.
Review: British Police Symphony Orchestra at Worcester Cathedral
Retail & Consumer
Saturday's event in aid of the Longlands Care Farm near Worcester and its support of disadvantaged young people was a heartwarming example of just what the British Police Symphony Orchestra is all about.
Review: Mark Padmore and Paul Lewis at Birmingham Town Hall
Birmingham Town Hall
Mark Padmore and Paul Lewis perform as one. The only centrestage egos here are those of the composers.
Review: Mahler's Tenth, CBSO at Symphony Hall
CBSO
The shrewdly-planned programme all pointed towards the concluding colossus, Mahler's Symphony no. 10, completed by Deryck Cooke.
Review: St Matthew Passion, Ex Cathedra at the Symphony Hall
Birmingham Symphony Hall
The Symphony Hall was packed for this gruelling but ultimately cathartic epic.
Review: Elgar's Second, CBSO, at the Symphony Hall
CBSO
This concert from the CBSO goes onto the shortlist for highlight of the year.
Review: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra at Symphony Hall
Birmingham Symphony Hall
The concerto was Rachmaninov Two, the soloist the much-loved Simon Trpceski, playing with a confident rubato and empathy with his collaborators.
Review: Shostakovich's Fifteenth, CBSO, at Symphony Hall
CBSO
From a programme which promised so much, it's ironic that the most satisfying item was the one serving as a pipe-opener, but here coming up fresh and exhilarating.
Review: Symphony Of A Thousand, Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra at Symphony Hall
Birmingham Symphony Hall
This was a concert celebrating the orchestra's 75th anniversary, as well as remembering ground-breaking Mahler performances under one-time long-serving conductor Kenneth Page.
Review: Philharmonia Orchestra at Symphony Hall
Birmingham Symphony Hall
This was a warm-hearted account from all concerned, and at the end Ashkenazy took his adoring players offstage without inflicting an encore upon us.
Review: Nicola Benedetti: Szymanowski, CBSO at Symphony Hall
Birmingham Symphony Hall
Benedetti was here for the first episode in the orchestra's survey of both Szymanowski Violin Concertos.