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Christopher Morley

Review: Orchestra Of The Swan at Birmingham Town Hall
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Bits and pieces concerts of well-worn favourites may not be calculated to set a Sunday afternoon alight, but this one certainly did.
Stephen Roberts & English Symphony Orchestra at Worcester Cathedral, Symphony Hall
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Friday must have been one of the headiest days in Stephen Roberts' life.
CBSO/Volkov at Symphony Hall
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We needed the joyous, sensuous life-enhancement of the great hymn to love which is Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony after the emotional batterings of Janacek's gratuitously gory Taras Bulba on Tuesday.
Andris Nelsons gets busy with the CBSO
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New musical director Andris Nelsons intends to jump in with both feet in his bid to win over the CBSO audiences.
Songs about stuffing with all the trimmings
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Music can take inspiration from all kinds of sources, but it's probably safe to say that Simon Holt's latest piece is the first to be written in memory of a one-legged taxidermist.
Tasmin's talent for breaking down barriers
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Tasmin Little is in for a busy long weekend in Stratford-upon-Avon, which she describes as her "second home".
Review: Orchestra Of The Swan at Birmingham Town Hall
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One of the refreshing threads running through the consistently successful programming of the Orchestra of the Swan has been its commissioning of new works.
A celebration of the life and work of Vaughan Williams
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RVW's anniversary adds flavour to this year's Bromsgrove Festival. Christopher Morley explains.
Review: Handel's Flavio at Birmingham Town Hall
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Some of Handel's operas carry the burden of ludicrous plots, and, for modern listeners at least, the disconcerting problem of similar voices singing different genders.
Review: BCMG,Knussen at CBSO Centre
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He might not have been listed in the programme, but Stravinsky was a palpable presence in Monday's well-constructed concert from Birmingham Contemporary Music Group under the elegant, meticulous conducting of Oliver Knussen.
Golijov and his latest challenge to 'primitive' critics
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According to one recent interview, the Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov has a problem with British music critics.
Review: Ex Cathedra, at Symphony Hall
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It was a significant weekend for Ex Cathedra, beginning with a heartening showcase of the education work the choir carries out so brilliantly.
Mendelssohn's coming home
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Christopher Morley looks forward to a historic night at Birmingham Town Hall.
Review: London Sinfonietta, at The Artrix, Bromsgrove
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London Sinfonietta's shrewdlyconstructed programme for Bromsgrove Concerts on Friday revealed a wonderful panorama of music from the last 100 years.
Review: CBSO, at Symphony Hall, Birmingham
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This is music as cosmic as the opening movement of Beethoven Nine, but under conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin it emerged merely as an uninvolving, spectacularly swift delivery of Mozart's perfectly-placed notes
Review: Orchestra Of The Swan, at Birmingham Town Hall
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Much acclaimed at its Lichfield Festival premiere with Orchestra of the Swan last July, the Oboe Concerto by John Joubert confirmed its stature as a major addition to the repertoire in a vibrant performance.
Review: BCMG at CBSO centre
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Any single work on offer in Sunday's concert from Birmingham Contemporary Music Group would have made me glad I'd crossed the road to hear it - not just for the quality of the music, but also for the sheer skill of these committed players.
Review: Stephen Gutman, The Artrix, Bromsgrove
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Praise to Bromsgrove Concerts for their promoting enterprise, praise to pianist Stephen Gutman for his devoted advocacy, and praise, too, to Godfrey Southerton for his heroic page-turning efforts.
Review: Eugene Onegin by WNO at the Hippodrome
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Of the three Welsh National Opera productions of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin I have seen, the middle one was a turkey which was still-born as soon as it emerged from its grotesque shell.
Joubert celebrations put him back on the map
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Celebrations of John Joubert's 80th birthday last year have helped to put this neglected Birmingham composer back on the musical map, with a major commission for the Three Choirs Festival.
Review: L'Incoronazione di Poppea, at The Crescent Theatre
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Though it is historically important, Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea is by no means the great opera the textbooks have always had us believe.
Review: CBSO, Andris Nelsons at the Symphony Hall
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CBSO music director elect Andris Nelsons set out his stall in great style in his first-ever officially scheduled public concert with them.
Come on, feel the noise
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Composer and sound-mixer Jonty Harrison talks to Christopher Morley about his lifelong fascination with electronic sound.
Review: Sinfonia Of Birmingham, at CBSO Centre
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The recent Labour Party Spring Conference left Symphony Hall out of bounds and forced the CBSO, including violinist Michael Seal and trumpeter Alan Thomas, to decamp to the CBSO Centre for two concerts on Saturday.