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Tom Service talks to conductor David Zinman as he moves on from the Zurich Tonhalle after nearly 20 years at the artistic helm of the Swiss orchestra. He travels to the midlands to review Birmingham Opera Company's 'Khovanskygate' a reworking of Mussorgsky's opera Khovanschina which raises strikingly modern parallels with a Russia divided by powerful conservative forces and growing Westernising influence. Following last summer's report into the future of the British Army Tom learns about the new Army bands which are being set up - the UK's first full-time professional brass bands! He also visits rehearsals and meets the team behind the first UK production of Rameau's opera Zais given by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment 250 years after the composer's death.