Concert Guides

About our concert guides

Want to know a little more about the music?

We've asked some brilliant writers to share their insights into the amazing pieces we're playing this season. You can read the notes online, or download a PDF of the full concert programme.

List of concert guides

  1. Korngold & Prokofiev

  2. Project Remix: Soul Celebration

  3. Family Concert: Tunes & Tales

  4. Best of Bond

  5. Haydn's Nelson Mass

  6. Schools' Concert: Key Stage 2 & 3

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  7. The Stories of Movie Music with Mark Kermode

  8. Notelets: Adventures in Space

  9. Brahms’ Fourth Symphony

  10. Bach & Beethoven 

  11. Music from Stage and Screen

  12. Kazuki conducts Rhapsody in Blue

  13. Rush Hour Concert

  14. Kazuki conducts Mahler

  15. Viennese New Year

  16. CBSO Family Christmas

  17. CBSO Christmas Party

  18. Choral Christmas

  19. Christmas Brass at Packington Estate

  20. Kazuki conducts Strauss

  21. Satnam Rana presents Bringing the Light

  22. Bartók & Ravel

  23. An Evening with Rushil Ranjan

  24. Shostakovich’s Last Symphony

  25. Eugene Tzikindelean plays Mozart