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Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group is a British chamber ensemble based in Birmingham, England specialising in the performance of new and contemporary music. BCMG performs regularly at the CBSO Centre and Symphony Hall in Birmingham, tours nationally and worldwide and has appeared several times at the Proms in London. Musicians from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra formed the ensemble in 1987, with Simon Rattle as its founding patron. Since then BCMG has premiered over 150 new works and won numerous awards, including the 2004 Royal Philharmonic Society Audience Development Award, the 1995 Gramophone Award for Best Orchestral Recording, the 1993 Royal Philharmonic Society Chamber Ensemble Award, the 1993 Prudential Award for Music, and The Arts Ball 2002 Outstanding Achievement Award. Thomas Adès was the first music director of BCMG, from 1998 to 2000. The current artistic director of BCMG is Stephan Meier, who succeeded Stephen Newbould. John Woolrich and Oliver Knussen were artists-in-association with BCMG. Past chairs of BCMG have included Stephen Saltaire, who served in the post from 2000 to 2015. From Wikipedia (

Songs

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This Is the Night Mail Crossing the Border (From "Night Mail")
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Requiem, Op. 33 "Songs for Sue": From Emily Dickinson
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Requiem, Songs for Sue, Op. 33: W.H. Auden

Albums

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Rumpelstiltskin

2019
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Boots of Lead – Feet of Clay (Live)

2012
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Wilde Lieder Marx Music

2019
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Ben Somewhen

2007
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Howard Skempton: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

2017
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Dark Inventions

2000
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BCMG 2013 Sampler: New Music for New Ears

2013
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Bernstein: Wonderful Town

1999

Singles & EPs

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Hommagesquisse

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Videos

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"One Hundred Easy Ways (to Lose a Man)" from "Wonderfultown" performed by Martina Haber

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One Hundred Easy Ways to Lose a Man (Wonderful Town)

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View From The Window [Short Film]

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One Hundred Easy Ways to Lose a Man (Wonderful Town) - Alexis G.

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"100 Easy Ways To Lose A Man" from Wonderful Town (1953)

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One Hundred Easy Ways to Lose a Man

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