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. CBSO Youth Orchestra: Brahms 2

  2. Rushil Ranjan and Abi Sampa

    The CBSO & the Orchestral Qawwali Project

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

    Kazuki conducts Elgar & Tchaikovsky

  4. Pianist Hisako Kawamura

    Kazuki conducts Rachmaninoff & Tchaikovsky

  5. Mirga conducts Weinberg & Brahms

  6. Family Concert: Sports Day!

  7. Photograph of Kazuki Yamada conducing the orchestra

    Kazuki conducts Respighi & Saint-Saëns

  8. Sebastian Heindl in front of an organ.

    Rush Hour Concert: Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony

  9. Best of Bollywood

  10. Mendelssohn & Wagner

  11. Video Games in Concert

  12. Kazuki conducts Joy

  13. Kazuki Conducts Ravel & Poulenc

  14. Kazuki conducts Mahler 9

  15. Northern Lights

  16. Sibelius & Dvořák

  17. Notelets: Wonderful Woodwinds

  18. Abbey Road Concerto

  19. Classic FM Hall of Fame

  20. An Evening of Thelonious Monk & Miles Davis

  21. Project Remix: Revisited

  22. Dvořák & Rachmaninoff

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

  24. Beethoven & Mahler

  25. CBSO Brass & Percussion at Town Hall