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. Kazuki conducts Joy

  2. Kazuki Conducts Ravel & Poulenc

  3. Kazuki conducts Mahler 9

  4. Northern Lights

  5. Sibelius & Dvořák

  6. Notelets: Wonderful Woodwinds

  7. Abbey Road Concerto

  8. Classic FM Hall of Fame

  9. An Evening of Thelonious Monk & Miles Davis

  10. Project Remix: Revisited

  11. Dvořák & Rachmaninoff

  12. It’s a living thing: the music of Jeff Lynne's ELO

  13. Beethoven & Mahler

  14. CBSO Brass & Percussion at Town Hall

  15. Kazuki conducts Haydn's Creation

  16. The Best of John Williams

  17. Stravinsky's Firebird

  18. CBSO Explores: the New World Symphony

  19. Valentine's Day: Kazuki conducts Dvořák 9

  20. Benevolent Fund Concert: Kazuki conducts Tchaikovsky

  21. Kazuki conducts Shostakovich & Bartók

  22. Musical Magic

  23. CBSO Winds plays Mozart

  24. Mendelssohn & Brahms

  25. Music at the Movies