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Review: City of Birmingham Choir, at Birmingham Town Hall May 25 2012

This concert by the City of Birmingham Choir offered several points of comparison and contrast. A conventional enough programme (Classical Meets Romantic was the title) it partnered Beethoven’s Mass in C with Schumann’s little-known Requiem in an almost chalk-and-cheese musical pairing.Read

Review: Carmina Burana, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, at Symphony Hall Jan 06 2012

Carl Orff’s paean to drinking, sex and the vicissitudes of fortune isn’t everyone’s cup of medieval mulled wine.Read

Review: Messiah, City of Birmingham Choir, at Symphony Hall Dec 16 2011

During a chorus rehearsal for Messiah Sir Malcolm Sargent once remarked to a soprano, “I can’t see you, Madam, which means you won’t be able to see me.”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: City of Birmingham Choir, at Symphony Hall Nov 11 2011

If you’re going to celebrate a choir’s 90th birthday properly, do it with panache, confidence and the right music.Read

Adrian Lucas is the choir master Nov 04 2011

Christopher Morley speaks to a conductor who had big shoes to fill when he took up the baton at the City of Birmingham Choir.Read

Review: Birmingham Schools' Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Choir, at Symphony Hall May 27 2011

Conductor Michael Seal’s platform manner exudes confidence, and this was reflected back at him magnified a hundred fold from the disciplined and enthusiastic young players of the Birmingham Schools Symphony Orchestra in this concert. Read

Review: Bach B Minor Mass, City of Birmingham Choir at Worcester Cathedral May 06 2011

The City of Birmingham Choir’s away day at Worcester Cathedral, the home ground of their conductor, Adrian Lucas, for Bach’s Mass in B minor was not, I fear, a resounding success.Read

Review: Messiah, City of Birmingham Choir, at Symphony Hall Dec 17 2010

It is amazing to realise that Handel took only 24 days to write what must be the most well-loved oratorio in the repertoire. No Christmas is complete without performances of Messiah, with Friday’s offering from the fine City of Birmingham Choir delighting a full house at Symphony Hall (it was repeated on Tuesday at Birmingham Town Hall).Read

Review: City of Birmingham Choir, at Birmingham Town Hall Nov 19 2010

On paper, Saturday’s concert from the City of Birmingham Choir may have looked a bit credit-crunch cheapskate (wot, no orchestra?), but the resourceful little group of instrumentalists conductor Adrian Lucas secured punched well above its weight.Read

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