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Christopher Morley

Stratford Virtuosi at Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon
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Though it has a truly international flavour, Stratford’s annual Virtuoso Violin festival forges special links between the º£½ÇÊÓƵ and Russia through its connections with conservatoires in Birmingham and St Petersburg and Moscow – especially valuable in these troubled times.
CBSO Youth Orchestra Academy at Birmingham Town Hall
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One of the most energetic performances of Beethoven’s Symphony no.7 surely ever seen at Town Hall.
Young talented musicians set to serve up a treat
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School might be out for the summer but there are still plenty of students working hard during the holidays, and many of them are musicians performing in the Midlands over the next few weeks.
Local colour to spice up our holiday reading
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Music-lovers wanting something for their holiday reading a little more substantial than the usual fodder might find something of interest in the following recommendations, each coming with a bit of local colour.
CBSO / Thomas Ades at The Proms, Royal Albert Hall
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My deep love of Prokofiev is something I owe to the Proms.
CBSO spreads the message far and wide
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Christopher Morley predicts the strong international flavour of this weekend’s classical music concerts will leave a satisfying taste for audiences
English Serenta at Leasowes Bank, Ratlinghope
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The sun came out at last on Saturday, smiling down on Leasowes Bank Farm nestling amid the far Shropshire hills and completing the perfect setting for an evening of Music and Poetry from Shakespeare Country.
Das Rheingold at Longborough Festival Opera
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First seen last year, Longborough’s Rheingold is a miracle of resource, imagination, flair and sheer cussed guts.
David Quigley's powers of persuasion
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Birmingham Conservatoire graduate David Quigley talks to Christopher Morley about organising an international piano summer school in the city.
Brant Piano Competition at Birmingham Town Hall
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Now approaching its fourth decade, the Brant International Piano Competition fills an important place in Birmingham's cultural calendar.
Nelson Goener gets to the heart of the orchestra
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Argentinian pianist Nelson Goener’s repertoire ranges from Beethoven to Deep Purple’s Jon Lord.
Die Winterreise at Lichfield Cathedral
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The central character in Die Winterreise is the wintry landscape which a lovelorn young man traverses in increasing madness until he reaches oblivion.
CBSO: The Magic of MGM at Symphony Hall
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In the glory days of MGM film musicals, the studios had the best of everything: accomplished composers, brilliant orchestrators who could make the most dazzling arrangements, expert conductors and the finest orchestral musicians, and, of course, the cream of singers, actors and dancers.
Armonica Consort Opera at King's High School for Girls, Warwick
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In baroque times, theatrical evenings would begin with the meaty tragedy and finish with a frothy comedy as a late-night sorbet.
Cunning Little Vixen at Longborough Festival Opera
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Janacek's Cunning Little Vixen is a work which seems particularly suited to Longborough, high in the Cotswolds amid dense forestation, where the woodland creatures we see in this most enchanting of operas surely scuttle about their nocturnal business just as they do onstage.
Patricia Rozario and Mark Bebbington at Tardebigge Church
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Sunday’s opening concert in Tardebigge’s popular Celebrating English Song series – already in its fifth year – brought highs and lows in more senses than one.
Review: CBSO at Symphony Hall, Birmingham
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Saturday's CBSO concert celebrated Simon Halsey's silver jubilee as director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus.
Hansel and Gretel, Welsh National Opera at Birmingham Hippodrome
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Hansel and Gretel is one of the most wonderful operas in the repertoire, but a truly searching presentation leaves you wondering whether Engelbert Humperdinck, one of Wagner's most fervent disciples, was in fact taking the mickey out of the Bayreuth master.
Review: Ex Cathedra at Birmingham Oratory
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For Ex Cathedra's highly-popular annual series of offerings of "Summer Vespers by Candlelight", Jeffrey Skidmore has never been content merely to rotate through the small number of established settings that exist in the canon.
The joys of having a 'dream job' for 25 years
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Simon Halsey's 25 years as director of the CBSO's choruses have seen a steady growth in their range and international renown.
Review: La Traviata at Longborough Festival Opera
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Anyone who calls Verdi's La Traviata "grand opera" is totally missing the point.
Julian's new role to help raise the profile of the ESM
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Julian Lloyd Webber talks to Christopher Morley about his new relationship with Worcester's Elgar School of Music.
Review: Verdi's Requiem at Symphony Hall
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Painting a great fresco in sound depicting humanity trembling on the brink of Judgment Day, Verdi's Requiem speaks for all of us.
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group at CBSO Centre
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On Thursday evening the Integra 2008 Festival - an event so vibrant and important in its assembling of so many contemporary music groups and technologists in Birmingham that it shouldn't have kept its light so blushingly under a bushel - was preceded by a crass musical commentary on a live BBC4 News broadcast.