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.

If you'd prefer a printed programme, you can pre-order your 2024-25 season concert programme here 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.

Pre-order your 2025-26 season concert programmes here.

List of programmes

  1. CBSO Explores: the New World Symphony

  2. Valentine's Day: Kazuki conducts Dvořák 9

  3. Benevolent Fund Concert: Kazuki conducts Tchaikovsky

  4. Kazuki conducts Shostakovich & Bartók

  5. Musical Magic

  6. CBSO Winds plays Mozart

  7. Mendelssohn & Brahms

  8. Music at the Movies

  9. Romeo & Juliet

  10. CBSO Explores: FRIENDS IN LOVE AND WAR

  11. Viennese New Year

  12. CBSO Christmas Party

  13. Jess Gillam playing the saxophone with the CBSO

    Choral Christmas with Jess Gillam

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  14. CBSO Explores the CBSO Centre

  15. Kazuki conducts Bruckner 9

  16. Notelets: Christmas Party

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  17. Kazuki conducts Walton & Elgar

  18. Seckou Keita: African Rhapsodies

  19. Headshot of Dame Sarah Connolly

    The Music Makers

  20. Tchaikovsky 6

  21. Goldberg Variations

  22. Grieg & Beethoven

  23. CBSO Youth Orchestra: Mendelssohn 5

  24. Kazuki & MILOŠ

  25. Beatle Mania!