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Review: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, at CBSO Centre Jun 01 2012

The space Oliver Knussen fills in the world of music is immense, and not only because of his big, genial frame. Busy as a most probing, perceptive conductor (and not only of contemporary music), he still somehow manages to find time to produce compositions of fastidious clarity and engagement.Read

Turning Oscar Wilde's 'Earnest' into an opera Apr 27 2012

Turning a text as iconic as The Importance of Being Earnest into an opera would intimidate even the most confident composer. But Christopher Morley speaks to an Irishman who relished every moment.Read

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group on RPS Music Awards shortlist Apr 23 2012

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group has been shortlisted in the acclaimed RPS Music Awards, made by the Royal Philharmonic Society. Read

Review: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, at CBSO Centre Mar 09 2012

On the face of it a concert of eleven pieces by different composers might have suggested a musical hotchpotch, but not so here. The disparate elements of this BCMG package, devised by John Woolrich as part of the BBC’s Music Nation weekend, had been cleverly moulded into a meaningful whole, with tribute and homage as the common vein.Read

Review: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, at the CBSO Centre, Birmingham Feb 13 2012

Programme notes verging on the pretentious led to confusion with constant references to death in ‘variable dustings of sound’. Fine playing throughout however, from some of Birmingham’s top musicians. Read

Classical music treats in the run up to Christmas in Birmingham Dec 01 2011

Advent-tide is the time for an almost pitched battle between the ongoing concert season and the attractions of the Christmas period.Read

Review: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, at CBSO Centre Nov 18 2011

For more than 20 years Birmingham Contemporary Music Group has provided an invaluable platform for the newest of music, promoting performances of works by cutting-edge composers both from home and abroad.Read

Review: Seven Angels/BCMG and The Opera Group at CBSO Centre Jun 24 2011

Luke Bedford is a young composer acclaimed with several successes. But his opera Seven Angels proved less than auspicious at its premiere by the Opera Group and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.Read

Review: Cabaret Nostalgie, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group at Shrewsbury School Jun 03 2011

The outrageous cabarets of Weimar-era Berlin are the stuff of legend, with their iconoclastic lampooning of German politics and society in the years before Hitler came to power. Although an artistic movement so much of its time and place can’t be fully replicated today, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group’s Cabaret Nostalgie came very close.Read

Review: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, at CBSO Centre Mar 18 2011

Sunday’s was a cracking programme even by BCMG’s standards, pulling out all the stops to celebrate the bestowing of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s prestigious Leslie Boosey Award to the powerhouse couple at the helm of BCMG, Stephen and Jackie Newbould (with a gentle, surprise miniwork by artist-in-association John Woolrich).Read

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