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5 September 2020
The CBSO’s 100th Birthday Celebration
Schumann
Genoveva, Op. 81 – Overture (1849)
Elgar
Serenade in E minor, Op. 20 (1892)
Saint-Saëns
Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33 (1872)
Kendall
The Spark Catchers (2017)
Rahman
Slumdog Millionaire – Suite (2012)
Stravinsky
The Firebird – Suite (1919)
Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello)
Roopa Panesar (sitar)
Adrian Lester (presenter)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle
Reviewed by: Richard Whitehouse
Reviewed: 5 September, 2020
Venue: PRG Live Stage Studio, Longbridge, Birmingham
It was not the Centenary Concert intended, but the City of Birmingham
Symphony Orchestra undoubtedly played to its strengths on this occasion –
reunited with one-time music director Simon Rattle for a programme as made
a virtue out of necessity in the present circumstances.
Necessities such as extended to this concert’s taking place not in Symphony
Hall (which has recently undergone major refurbishment) but in PRG’s Live
Stage Studio, described on the orchestra’s website as ‘‘a warehouse and
