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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1920 in Birmingham, England, is a British orchestra. The ensemble held its inaugural concert on 5 September 1920 at the Theatre Royal, with Granville Bantock’s Saul as opener. Over subsequent decades, it expanded its repertoire and recording output, issuing classic early LPs such as Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue & Piano Works (1987) and Stravinsky – The Firebird (1989). The orchestra moved to Symphony Hall in 1991, where it performed more than 150 concerts annually and collaborated with conductors like Simon Rattle, Sakari Oramo, And...