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Impressive CBSO open the Cheltenham Music Festival

Andrew Gourlay conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
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The CBSO double basses
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“Gourlay coaxed handsome unanimity of tone from his forces”
Reviewed at Cheltenham Town Hall: Main Stage, Cheltenham on 8 July 2023
Wilson, Eden (World premiere)
Bennett, Partita
Vaughan Williams, The Lark Ascending
Beethoven, Symphony no. 6 in F major "Pastoral", Op.68
Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Violin
Andrew Gourlay, Conductor
Carlo Rizzi brings Respighi’s Rome to Birmingham
****1
Nelson Goerner shines with the CBSO and Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody
****1
Yamada and the CBSO’s Walton expedition at the Elbphilharmonie
****1
Kazuki Yamada and the CBSO stir up swelling seas with Scheherazade
****1
François Leleux and Lisa Batiashvili play fire and ice with the CBSO
***11
Yamada and the CBSO luxuriate in line at Symphony Hall
****1
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