Culture: First Sound of Spring Festivals ; Christopher Morley's Classical Preview

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With the arrival of spring comes the time to start thinking about the region's festivals, beginning at Bromsgrove, where the town's 46th annual Festival holds its opening concert at The Artrix on Saturday (7.45pm). Douglas Boyd conducts the London Mozart Players in three of Mozart's last great orchestral works, the symphonies nos.39 and 41, and his almost heartbreaking final piano concerto, no 27 in B-flat, K595, with Mark Bebbington as the soloist.

The Hagley-based pianist has in recent years launched a highly successful recording career on the SOMM label, and has just set down a CD of three of Mozart's earlier concertos, a collaboration with Stratford-upon-Avon's Orchestra of the Swan which is due for release later this year. Bromsgrove's all-Mozart concert is preceded tomorrow evening by a lecture by Professor Julian Rushton, one of the country's leading Mozart specialists, entitled "Mozart - 18th Century Modernist?" (Bromsgrove School, 7.45pm).

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Culture: First Sound of Spring Festivals ; Christopher Morley's Classical Preview

Other events in the first part of the Bromsgrove Festival, which this year has been extended to three weeks, bring the celebrated pianist Imogen Cooper to the atmospheric ...

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