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. Symphonic Queen

  2. Kazuki conducts The Dream of Gerontius

  3. CBSO Youth Orchestra: Brahms 2

  4. Rushil Ranjan and Abi Sampa

    The CBSO & the Orchestral Qawwali Project

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

    Kazuki conducts Elgar & Tchaikovsky

  6. Pianist Hisako Kawamura

    Kazuki conducts Rachmaninoff & Tchaikovsky

  7. Mirga conducts Weinberg & Brahms

  8. Family Concert: Sports Day!

  9. Photograph of Kazuki Yamada conducing the orchestra

    Kazuki conducts Respighi & Saint-Saëns

  10. Sebastian Heindl in front of an organ.

    Rush Hour Concert: Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony

  11. Best of Bollywood

  12. Mendelssohn & Wagner

  13. Video Games in Concert

  14. Kazuki conducts Joy

  15. Kazuki Conducts Ravel & Poulenc

  16. Kazuki conducts Mahler 9

  17. Northern Lights

  18. Sibelius & Dvořák

  19. Notelets: Wonderful Woodwinds

  20. Abbey Road Concerto

  21. Classic FM Hall of Fame

  22. An Evening of Thelonious Monk & Miles Davis

  23. Project Remix: Revisited

  24. Dvořák & Rachmaninoff

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