Programmes

About our programmes

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.

Printed programmes are also available to purchase before CBSO concerts.

We're doing things a bit differently in our 2024-25 season! Pre-order your concert programme and it'll be available for you to collect on the day of the concert. Just show your voucher at the programme desk before heading into the performance.

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List of programmes

  1. Nikolaj Henriques playing the bassoon with the CBSO

    Youth Orchestra Academy

  2. Edward Gardner leaning against a white wall

    Schubert 9

  3. Photograph of Maki Mori in a ball gown.

    Madam Butterfly

  4. Illustration of a night sky and candyfloss coloured clouds.

    Art of the Score: The Music of Hans Zimmer

  5. Photograph of Ariel Lanyi sitting beside a keyboard.

    Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony

  6. Photograph of Alisa Weilerstein playing the cello.

    Barber & Rachmaninoff

  7. Photograph of the CBSO Chorus performing in Symphony Hall

    Vespers of the Blessed Earth

  8. An illustration of a red crystal violin with the words Final Symphony 2 around it.

    Final Symphony II: Music from FINAL FANTASY

  9. Photograph of ballerina Zenaida Yanowsky dancing in a white tutu.

    Best of Ballet

  10. Photograph of Oksana Lyniv conducting.

    Old World Symphony

  11. Photograph of Colin Currie playing the xylophone.

    Bernstein & Elfman

  12. A still taken from the film Amadeus showing Mozart in a grand hall.

    Amadeus

  13. Photograph of Joshua Weilerstein conducting.

    New World Symphony

  14. Photograph of Jérémie Rhorer conducting.

    Debussy & Stravinsky

  15. Photograph of a man holding a red lightsaber.

    May the Fourth: A Star Wars Celebration

  16. Photograph of Jeremy Denk sitting at a piano.

    Pictures at an Exhibition

  17. Photograph of James Ehnes playing the violin.

    Bruckner 7

  18. Photograph of Tessa Lark playing the violin.

    Classic FM Hall of Fame

  19. Photograph of Gergely Madaras conducting the CBSO

    Britten & Tchaikovsky

  20. Photograph of tenor Pene Pati laughing.

    The Damnation of Faust

  21. Photograph of pianist Benjamin Grosvenor.

    Kazuki & Benjamin Grosvenor

  22. Photograph of Ilan Volkov conducting.

    Rhapsody in Blue

  23. Photograph of Daneille de Niese wearing a ballgown.

    Baroque to Broadway

  24. Photograph of Alexandre Bloch conducting

    Fauré Requiem

  25. Photograph of Daishin Kashimoto holding his violin.

    Benevolent Fund Concert: Mozart & Sibelius