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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

Review: You Call The Tunes - CBSO at Symphony Hall

After the heady excitement of Wednesday's first official concert with Andris Nelsons, the CBSO's music director-inwaiting, Friday saw a return to business as usual. Read

Review: CBSO, Andris Nelsons at the Symphony Hall

CBSO music director elect Andris Nelsons set out his stall in great style in his first-ever officially scheduled public concert with them. Read

Come on, feel the noise

Composer and sound-mixer Jonty Harrison talks to Christopher Morley about his lifelong fascination with electronic sound. Read

Review: Sinfonia Of Birmingham, at CBSO Centre

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. Read

Review: CBSO (CBSO Centre) & Ex Cathedra (Town Hall)

Christopher Morley reviews the CBSO taking on Stravinsky, while Ex Cathedra deliver Bach's St John Passion Read

The mindset of the concerto soloist

Soloists Alan Thomas and Hakan Hardenberger talk to Christopher Morley. Read

Kazushi provides a bridge between western and eastern cultures

Kazushi Ono, who conducts the CBSO in music by Strauss and Prokofieve tonight, talks to Christopher Morley about the Japanese perspective on European music. Read

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