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.

List of programmes

  1. Reformation Symphony

  2. Laura Mvula with the CBSO

  3. Nielsen's Fourth Symphony

  4. Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony

  5. Britten & Elgar

  6. Symphonic Queen

  7. Kazuki conducts The Dream of Gerontius

  8. CBSO Youth Orchestra: Brahms 2

  9. Rushil Ranjan and Abi Sampa

    The CBSO & the Orchestral Qawwali Project

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

    Kazuki conducts Elgar & Tchaikovsky

  11. Pianist Hisako Kawamura

    Kazuki conducts Rachmaninoff & Tchaikovsky

  12. Mirga conducts Weinberg & Brahms

  13. Family Concert: Sports Day!

  14. Photograph of Kazuki Yamada conducing the orchestra

    Kazuki conducts Respighi & Saint-Saëns

  15. Sebastian Heindl in front of an organ.

    Rush Hour Concert: Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony

  16. Best of Bollywood

  17. Mendelssohn & Wagner

  18. Video Games in Concert

  19. Kazuki conducts Joy

  20. Kazuki Conducts Ravel & Poulenc

  21. Kazuki conducts Mahler 9

  22. Northern Lights

  23. Sibelius & Dvořák

  24. Notelets: Wonderful Woodwinds

  25. Abbey Road Concerto