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. Puccini in Rome

  2. Live at the Centre: Celebrating Pohela Boishakh

  3. Kazuki conducts Rachmaninoff & Bartók

  4. CBSO Benevolent Fund Concert

  5. Korngold & Prokofiev

  6. Project Remix: Soul Celebration

  7. Family Concert: Tunes & Tales

  8. Best of Bond

  9. Haydn's Nelson Mass

  10. Schools' Concert: Key Stage 2 & 3

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  11. The Stories of Movie Music with Mark Kermode

  12. Notelets: Adventures in Space

  13. Brahms’ Fourth Symphony

  14. Bach & Beethoven 

  15. Music from Stage and Screen

  16. Kazuki conducts Rhapsody in Blue

  17. Rush Hour Concert

  18. Kazuki conducts Mahler

  19. Viennese New Year

  20. CBSO Family Christmas

  21. CBSO Christmas Party

  22. Choral Christmas

  23. Christmas Brass at Packington Estate

  24. Kazuki conducts Strauss

  25. Satnam Rana presents Bringing the Light