Article: Celebrating 100 years of music making; Birmingham University Music Society Symphony Hall/ Birmingham Ensemble Barber Institute, Birmingham University.

Article: Reviews: Scholl's lesson in composure; Birmingham ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  October 14, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Earlier on Friday we had enjoyed a delightful CBSO CentreStage lunchtime concert, Peter Thomas' always treasurable Birmingham Ensemble giving a smiling, sunny reading of Rossini's C major String Sonata and a earnest, enthralling one of Bruckner ...

Article: Culture: Experience counts; City of Birmingham Choir Symphony ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  May 20, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... with an athletic lightness of touch. British music of a later generation came yesterday afternoon, when the Birmingham Ensemble sandwiched Hugh Wood's Piano Trio between works for the medium by Mozart and Beethoven. Though its language ...

Article: Culture: Review: Perfect choice for celebration; CBSC Symphony ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  February 2, 2004 ;     646 words ... ... responsiveness of this huge body to Halsey's direction was extraordinary. Another branch of the CBSO family tree, the Birmingham Ensemble, was to the fore yesterday afternoon, Eduardo Vassallo completing his survey of all five Beethoven cello sonatas ...

Article: Culture: Ensemble's Wolf is nothing to cry about; The ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  January 22, 2002 ;     478 words ... ... composers' reputations in this field on a very limited repertoire. It was a duty effectively fulfilled by the Birmingham Ensemble in Wolf's Italian Serenade, the string quartet's evident affection reflected in a warmth and delicacy that ...

Article: POST REVIEW Never mind the movement, just feel the quality; CBSO, ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  January 11, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... several represented in yesterday afternoon's stimulatin g Towards the Millennium concert in which the enterprising Birmingham Ensemble explored some of the sounds of the 1980s. This was a compact, economical sequence based around string quartet ...

Article: Future perfect for a fine pair of cellists; Future Perfect CBSO ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  December 18, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... afternoon, contributing a proud, virile account of the C major solo cello sonata to an all-Bach programme from the Birmingham Ensemble marking the end of the 250th anniversary year of the composer's death. Vassallo's was a properly improvisatory ...

Article: Culture: An appropriate coincidence; Philharmonia Orchestra ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  March 25, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... foreshadowed in the Soviet bullying suffered by Shostakovich in 1936, and it was almost possible to hear his pain in The Birmingham Ensemble's inspired reading of his first String Quartet on Sunday, despite the work's empty, untroubled reputation ...