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7 September 2020
FIRST NIGHT | CONCERT
CBSO/Rattle review — the music-
making was terrific on the centenary
PRG Warehouse, Longbridge
Richard Morrison
Monday September 07 2020, 12.01am, The Times
Sheku Kanneh-Mason joined Simon Rattle and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for Saint-Saëns’s Cello
Concerto No 1
ANDREW FOX
★★★★★
Only one thing disappointed about this joyous celebration of the City of Birmingham Symphony
Orchestra — held 100 years, to the minute, after the orchestra’s first concert. It should have
been on mainstream television as well as on YouTube. In fact it would have been a courteous
gesture on the BBC’s part to have incorporated it into the Proms season.
Instead, the CBSO, still unable to access Symphony Hall, decamped to a warehouse in
Longbridge to produce a two-hour show that was part concert — conducted by one of its former
music directors, Simon Rattle — and part documentary. The whole thing was presented, with
