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Mendelssohn's coming home

Christopher Morley looks forward to a historic night at Birmingham Town Hall.Read

Review: CBSO, Symphony Hall

Pity the poor conductor who has to negotiate the famous four-note opening theme of Beethoven's fifth symphony.Read

Review: CBSO, at Symphony Hall, Birmingham

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 notesRead

Review: London Sinfonietta, at The Artrix, Bromsgrove

London Sinfonietta's shrewdlyconstructed programme for Bromsgrove Concerts on Friday revealed a wonderful panorama of music from the last 100 years.Read

Guillemots man writes for Ex Cathedra

Birmingham chamber choir Ex Cathedra has commissioned a new piece, combining Jewish and Islamic performers, from pop musician Fyfe Dangerfield.Read

Ex Cathedra celebrates 40 years

Birmingham chamber choir Ex Cathedra is embarking on an ambitious three-year programme to mark its 40th birthday. Read

Enticing programme tests the mettle of our musical youth

Christopher Morley looks forward to a series of concerts featuring future stars of the classical world.Read

Vaughan Williams wins classical vote

Ralph Vaughan Williams has been voted the composer of Britain's favourite classical piece of music, half a century after his death.Read

Review: St Matthew Passion, by Birmingham Bach Choir

For many years Birmingham Bach Choir's Good Friday performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion has been a major highlight of the Symphony Hall season.Read

Review: Brahms' German Requiem By CBSO at Symphony Hall

Ignore the misgivings of some 19th century audiences, and George Bernard Shaw, who dismissed it as the product of a first-class undertaker.Read

Review: Orchestra Of The Swan, at Birmingham Town Hall

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.Read

Review: BCMG at CBSO centre

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.Read

School revival for overlooked chamber music

It may not enjoy the limelight of other classical genres but chamber music is enjoying a revival in the Midlands.Read

Review: BBC Symphony Orcehstra and Chorus, Birmingham Town Hall

With Sir John Tavener so seriously ill, it seems only decent to suspend the scepticism so easily provoked by his idiosyncratic spiritual pronouncements, but to ignore them entirely would be to discount his own account of The Beautiful Names.Read

Review: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Hall

This performance of Beethoven's Eroica had some good qualities but lacked that extra something which makes for a really fine one.Read

Review: Felicity Lott, Forum Theatre Malvern

'Chamber music is by friends, for friends' None truer than the admirable offerings from the Malvern Concert Club created by Sir Edward Elgar in 1903. Congratulations are very much in order as was the excited buzz for a capacity gathering for this landmark 500th concert. A most distinguished list of participants throughout the decades culminated in a recital by much-loved soprano Dame Felicity Lott with one of the world's leading vocal accompanists, Graham Johnson.Read

Review: Stephen Gutman, The Artrix, Bromsgrove

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.Read

Joubert celebrations put him back on the map

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.Read

Review: Goldberg Ensemble at Birmingham Conservatoire

As the final night of a three-date tour, this concert by the Goldberg Ensemble wasn't technically the world première of Joe Cutler's new song-cycle Akhmatova Fragments.Read

Borodin Quartet makes an art out of longevity

Formed by four young students at the Moscow Conservatoire in 1945, the Borodin String Quartet is still going strong into its seventh decade.Read