The best young musicians in the Midlands take to the Town Hall stage

Members of the CBSO Youth Orchestra enlighten audiences with Brahms' Symphony No.2 in one of Birmingham's most historic venues, alongside a new commission by Christopher Churcher and Strauss II's popular operetta, Die Fledermaus.

Brahms wrote to his publisher that for his Symphony No.2 he had ‘never written anything so sad’. His tongue, however, was firmly in his cheek as this is one of his most outrageously cheerful pieces.