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Benjamin Grosvenor is a prodigy with an ear for music Oct 14 2011

Piano prodigy Benjamin Grosvenor is keen to expand his repertoire, he tells Christopher Morley.Read

Review: Arcadia, St Mary Magdalene, Leintwardine, and St Giles', Downton-on-the-Rock Oct 14 2011

Launched just a year ago, the annual Arcadia festival is well on the way towards establishing itself as one of the major autumn music events in the lovely Welsh marches.Read

Review: Maggini String Quartet, at Adrian Boult Hall Oct 14 2011

Birmingham Chamber Music Society’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations begin now. Throughout the past 60 years we have been privileged to hear some splendid gems from this most precious concert promoter. Many young unsung performers have been given a start in their careers with the generous opportunity to play as part of professional recitals. Many new works have also been given an airing; mind-teasing for loyal audiences.Read

Review: Midlands Festival Chorus, at Worcester Cathedral Oct 14 2011

This latest concert from Malcolm Goldring’s enthusiastic and committed Midlands Festival Chorus brought an extra interest with the support of the period-instrument orchestra Rejouissance.Read

Review: London Philharmonic Orchestra, at Symphony Hall Oct 14 2011

It would be so easy for a great orchestra like the London Philharmonic just to churn out routine accounts of Viennese classics they will have rolled out on the production-line countless times. Not so on Tuesday, when, perhaps stimulated by a packed house and the matchless ambience of Symphony Hall, and certainly responsive to conductor and soloist, the LPO delivered performances which came up sparkling and new.Read

Jazz Diary: Much to get excited about with top 4tet Oct 13 2011

My recommendation for gig of the week involves a bit of travelling, unless you live at the western extremes of this paper’s circulation area, but it will be well worth the journey, I promise.Read

Fans orchestrate The Enid's show Oct 13 2011

Cult rock band The Enid have their fans to thank for making their dream of performing on stage with a symphony orchestra come true.Read

Stourbridge band The Pargeters grab runners up spot at international festival Oct 07 2011

Stourbridge five-piece The Pargeters have beaten off both international competition to take second prize in a prestigious unsigned music festival competition. Read

Meet the voice of good reason...Stephen Varcoe Oct 07 2011

Baritone Stephen Varcoe talks to Christopher Morley ahead of his Worcester Cathedral performance.Read

Review: CBSO, at Symphony Hall Oct 07 2011

Thursday’s well-attended matinee was a triumph under Andris Nelsons, but a poignant one, too, as it was bassoonist John Schroder’s last Birmingham concert after 45 years with the CBSO.Read

Review: Orchestra of St Paul's, at Barber Institute Oct 07 2011

William Walton’s entertainment Facade continually attracts celebrity reciters, and the latest of these is William Sitwell, editor, broadcaster and foodie writer, and great-nephew of Edith Sitwell herself, poetess of these lorgnette-gazing, surreal verses.Read

Review: Severn Meadows, at Malvern College Oct 07 2011

Shamefully unsung, the “Autumn in Malvern” festival has heroically added its lustre to the cultural life of this lovely area for 22 years, and its current programme is particularly enticing.Read

Review: Rachmaninov Vespers, Ex Cathedra at Symphony Hall Oct 07 2011

Forget the “All-Night Vigil” tag and visions of a dusk-to-dawn Russian Orthodox marathon. In concert Rachmaninov’s Vespers last barely an hour, and in recorded form fit comfortably on a single CD.Read

Review: Sinfonia of Birmingham, at Sutton Coldfield Town Hall Oct 07 2011

Beethoven dropped the overture Leonora No.3 from Fidelio because it simply overwhelmed the light comedy that opens Act 1. A similar problem occurred at this first concert of the Sutton Coldfield Philharmonic Society’s new season, performed by the Sinfonia of Birmingham under Richard Laing. Laing’s taut, dramatic reading of the overture left the chipboard solemnities that began the next item – Saint-Saëns’ G minor Piano Concerto – sounding very silly indeed.Read

Jazz Diary: Sax man Tommy Smith brings band to Warwick Arts Centre Oct 06 2011

This week’s big gig features the brilliant Scottish saxophonist Tommy Smith, who brings his newest band into the Warwick Arts Centre Studio tonight at the invitation of Jazz Coventry.Read

Watch: Keith Allen makes surprise appearance at UB40 performance at Hare & Hounds pub in Kings Heath Oct 04 2011

BIRMINGHAM music legends UB40 took a trip down memory lane when a special plaque was unveiled at the Hare & Hounds pub in Kings Heath, where they played their first ever gig.Read

UB40 to play exclusive acoustic gig at Kings Heath pub Hare & Hounds Oct 03 2011

UB40 will play an exclusive free acoustic gig after they are honoured with a PRS for Music Heritage Award at the Hare & Hounds in Kings Heath tomorrow (Tuesday).Read

Deep Purple bring the concerto to Birmingham Sep 30 2011

Legendary rockers Deep Purple talk to Andy Coleman about performing with a 38-piece orchestra.Read

Eastern promise at the Enescu Festival in Bucharest Sep 30 2011

Christopher Morley takes in the Enescu Festival in Bucharest – but finds concert hall behaviour a bit of a culture shock.Read

Review: Verdi Requiem CBSO at Symphony Hall Sep 30 2011

The account of Verdi’s Requiem which launched the new CBSO season was the most unspectacular I have ever heard, and full marks to Andris Nelsons for that, disdaining showy glamour for the inner message of this wonderful work.Read

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