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. Bartók & Ravel

  2. An Evening with Rushil Ranjan

  3. Shostakovich’s Last Symphony

  4. Eugene Tzikindelean plays Mozart

  5. Kazuki & Isata Kanneh-Mason

  6. Kazuki & the Jussen Brothers

  7. Family Concert: Music from the Movies

  8. Reformation Symphony

  9. Laura Mvula with the CBSO

  10. Nielsen's Fourth Symphony

  11. Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony

  12. Britten & Elgar

  13. Symphonic Queen

  14. Kazuki conducts The Dream of Gerontius

  15. CBSO Youth Orchestra: Brahms 2

  16. Rushil Ranjan and Abi Sampa

    The CBSO & the Orchestral Qawwali Project

  17. Photograph of Sheku Kanneh-Mason playing the cello with the CBSO at Symphony Hall.

    Kazuki conducts Elgar & Tchaikovsky

  18. Pianist Hisako Kawamura

    Kazuki conducts Rachmaninoff & Tchaikovsky

  19. Mirga conducts Weinberg & Brahms

  20. Family Concert: Sports Day!

  21. Photograph of Kazuki Yamada conducing the orchestra

    Kazuki conducts Respighi & Saint-Saëns

  22. Sebastian Heindl in front of an organ.

    Rush Hour Concert: Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony

  23. Best of Bollywood

  24. Mendelssohn & Wagner

  25. Video Games in Concert