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 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.

List of programmes

  1. Nielsen's Fourth Symphony

  2. Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony

  3. Britten & Elgar

  4. Symphonic Queen

  5. Kazuki conducts The Dream of Gerontius

  6. CBSO Youth Orchestra: Brahms 2

  7. Rushil Ranjan and Abi Sampa

    The CBSO & the Orchestral Qawwali Project

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

    Kazuki conducts Elgar & Tchaikovsky

  9. Pianist Hisako Kawamura

    Kazuki conducts Rachmaninoff & Tchaikovsky

  10. Mirga conducts Weinberg & Brahms

  11. Family Concert: Sports Day!

  12. Photograph of Kazuki Yamada conducing the orchestra

    Kazuki conducts Respighi & Saint-Saëns

  13. Sebastian Heindl in front of an organ.

    Rush Hour Concert: Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony

  14. Best of Bollywood

  15. Mendelssohn & Wagner

  16. Video Games in Concert

  17. Kazuki conducts Joy

  18. Kazuki Conducts Ravel & Poulenc

  19. Kazuki conducts Mahler 9

  20. Northern Lights

  21. Sibelius & Dvořák

  22. Notelets: Wonderful Woodwinds

  23. Abbey Road Concerto

  24. Classic FM Hall of Fame

  25. An Evening of Thelonious Monk & Miles Davis