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Simon Cummings
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By , 02 August 2025
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Hereford
03 Aug 2025
The power of words: Mendelssohn’s Elijah closes the Three Choirs
By Simon Cummings
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By , 31 July 2025
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Hereford
01 Aug 2025
Coleridge-Taylor’s bloodless passion at the Three Choirs Festival
By Simon Cummings
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By , 16 May 2025
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16 May 2025
Joy, sorrow and accordions: Ksenija Sidorova
By Simon Cummings
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By , 16 April 2025
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Birmingham
17 Apr 2025
Yamada and the CBSO deliver an evening of stark contrasts
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By , 10 April 2025
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Birmingham
11 Apr 2025
Emotionally-charged modernism: Mahler’s Ninth at Symphony Hall
By Simon Cummings
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By , 12 March 2025
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12 Mar 2025
Igniting the Singing Revolution: the music of Veljo Tormis
By Simon Cummings
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By , 06 March 2025
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Birmingham
07 Mar 2025
Symphonic landscapes: Chauhan and the CBSO connect Beethoven to Mahler
By Simon Cummings
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By , 26 February 2025
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Birmingham
27 Feb 2025
From chaos to joy: Haydn’s The Creation in Birmingham
By Simon Cummings
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By , 15 January 2025
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Birmingham
16 Jan 2025
Romeo and Juliet without the tragedy? Karabits and the CBSO
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By , 12 December 2024
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Birmingham
13 Dec 2024
Mozart and Bruckner in Birmingham
By Simon Cummings
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By , 04 December 2024
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Birmingham
05 Dec 2024
Walton 2–0 Elgar: triumph and failure for the CBSO at Symphony Hall
By Simon Cummings
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By , 12 November 2024
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Birmingham
13 Nov 2024
Anna Rakitina and the CBSO rethink familiar works
By Simon Cummings
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By , 16 October 2024
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Birmingham
17 Oct 2024
Sir Mark Elder and the CBSO challenge expectations
By Simon Cummings
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By , 10 October 2024
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Birmingham
11 Oct 2024
Music at face value: superficial Søndergård at Symphony Hall
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By , 25 September 2024
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Birmingham
26 Sep 2024
Contrasting moods from the CBSO and Fabien Gabel
By Simon Cummings
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By , 11 September 2024
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11 Sep 2024
The joy of ninths: Kazuki Yamada at the CBSO
By Simon Cummings
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By , 02 June 2024
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Istanbul
06 Jun 2024
Carlo Tenan delivers a tempestuous, desperate Mozart Requiem
By Simon Cummings
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By , 31 May 2024
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Istanbul
05 Jun 2024
Festival Strings Lucerne bring sleek clarity and ambient stasis
By Simon Cummings
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By , 30 May 2024
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Istanbul
05 Jun 2024
Globetrotting recital brings poignancy and swagger to Istanbul
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By , 23 May 2024
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Birmingham
24 May 2024
Precision and passion in music from stage and screen at Symphony Hall
By Simon Cummings
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By , 27 March 2024
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Birmingham
28 Mar 2024
Audacious and radical: the CBSO explores 20th-century American music
By Simon Cummings
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By , 18 February 2024
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Birmingham
19 Feb 2024
A heroic attempt: the CBSO YO tackles Mahler’s Fifth in Birmingham
By Simon Cummings
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By , 14 February 2024
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Birmingham
15 Feb 2024
A vulgar Valentine’s Day offering from the CBSO
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By , 11 February 2024
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Cardiff
12 Feb 2024
Playfulness and horror: Beethoven and Shostakovich in Cardiff
By Simon Cummings
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By , 17 January 2024
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Birmingham
18 Jan 2024
Kazuki Yamada and the CBSO deliver an evening of restless rhapsody
By Simon Cummings
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By , 15 October 2023
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Birmingham
16 Oct 2023
More than just a concert: Ex Cathedra perform Rachmaninov’s Vespers
By Simon Cummings
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By , 28 September 2023
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Birmingham
29 Sep 2023
The stuff of dreams and nightmares in Birmingham
By Simon Cummings
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By , 16 September 2023
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Birmingham
17 Sep 2023
Dramatic tragedy and joy at Symphony Hall, Birmingham
By Simon Cummings
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By , 22 August 2023
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22 Aug 2023
Kahchun Wong on coming to Dresden and the future of classical music
By Simon Cummings
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By , 29 July 2023
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Gloucester
30 Jul 2023
Preaching to the converted: The Apostles at the Three Choirs
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By , 14 June 2023
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Birmingham
15 Jun 2023
Britten and Elgar challenge expectations at Symphony Hall
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By , 07 June 2023
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Birmingham
08 Jun 2023
Weightless and transparent: the CBSO amazes in Rachmaninov 2
By Simon Cummings
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By , 18 May 2023
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Birmingham
19 May 2023
Obsessed with life, dance and song: Mahler’s Tenth in Birmingham
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By , 10 May 2023
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Birmingham
11 May 2023
Flexibility, telepathy and perhaps a miracle: Widmann and the CBSO
By Simon Cummings
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By , 04 May 2023
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04 May 2023
The imagination factory: Manchester International Festival 2023
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By , 07 April 2023
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Birmingham
10 Apr 2023
The power of individual voices: Ex Cathedra’s St Matthew Passion
By Simon Cummings
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By , 15 March 2023
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Birmingham
16 Mar 2023
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and the CBSO blow hot and cold in Birmingham
By Simon Cummings
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By , 22 February 2023
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Birmingham
23 Feb 2023
Hiding in plain sight: Ilan Volkov steals the show at Symphony Hall
By Simon Cummings
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By , 06 February 2023
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Birmingham
07 Feb 2023
Szeps-Znaider and the RLPO stun, dazzle and exhilarate
By Simon Cummings
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By , 12 January 2023
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Birmingham
13 Jan 2023
A Tale of Two Symphonies: Larcher and Mahler in Birmingham
By Simon Cummings
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By , 09 December 2022
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Cardiff
11 Dec 2022
Wild oscillations in Cardiff unite Beethoven, Schumann and Ligeti
By Simon Cummings
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By , 06 November 2022
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Birmingham
07 Nov 2022
Vaughan Williams at 150 with the City of Birmingham Choir
By Simon Cummings
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By , 06 October 2022
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Birmingham
07 Oct 2022
Lifelessness, extremes and emotional weight in conflicted CBSO evening
By Simon Cummings
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By , 20 September 2022
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Birmingham
21 Sep 2022
Heralding a new CBSO era: exuberant Dvořák and mature Mendelssohn
By Simon Cummings
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By , 19 August 2022
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19 Aug 2022
Anna Clyne’s Sound and Fury finally arrives in Hong Kong
By Simon Cummings
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By , 29 July 2022
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Hereford
01 Aug 2022
A conflicted evening at the Three Choirs Festival
By Simon Cummings
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By , 24 July 2022
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26 Jul 2022
Engaging with the past at the Three Choirs Festival
By Simon Cummings
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By , 23 July 2022
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Hereford
24 Jul 2022
Turmoil and enormity: Dvořák’s Requiem at Hereford Cathedral
By Simon Cummings
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By , 02 July 2022
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Birmingham
03 Jul 2022
Dancing on the grave: Brabbins conducts Stanford’s Requiem
By Simon Cummings
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By , 15 June 2022
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Birmingham
16 Jun 2022
Formality, intimacy, ferocity: Ludovic Morlot and the CBSO
By Simon Cummings