Culture: Stunning Singer Meyers Takes the Breath Away in Cbso Symphony Hall Spectacular ; **** Cbso/City of Birmingham Choir, Symphony Hall

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Shakespeare was the context for Thursday's CBSO concert, even, tenuously, connected with Samuel Barber, who composed the less than totally successful opera Antony and Cleopatra Barber's Violin Concerto, earlier by 26 years, is an established favourite in the 20th-century repertoire, moving from rapturous pastoral dreaminess to busy, big-city perpetual motion, and the soloist here, Anne Akiko Meyers, brought singing, shapely phrases and sweet persuasive tone to all its ruminations.

And in the non-stop finale her stamina was simply stunning, exploiting to the full the resources of her magnificent Stradivarius which was well able to ride the roller-coaster of Andrew Litton's enthusiastic orchestra.

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Culture: Stunning Singer Meyers Takes the Breath Away in Cbso Symphony Hall Spectacular ; **** Cbso/City of Birmingham Choir, Symphony Hall

Sandwiching the Barber were two authentically Shakespearean works, beginning with the suite f...

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