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. Laura Mvula with the CBSO

  2. Nielsen's Fourth Symphony

  3. Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony

  4. Britten & Elgar

  5. Symphonic Queen

  6. Kazuki conducts The Dream of Gerontius

  7. CBSO Youth Orchestra: Brahms 2

  8. Rushil Ranjan and Abi Sampa

    The CBSO & the Orchestral Qawwali Project

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

    Kazuki conducts Elgar & Tchaikovsky

  10. Pianist Hisako Kawamura

    Kazuki conducts Rachmaninoff & Tchaikovsky

  11. Mirga conducts Weinberg & Brahms

  12. Family Concert: Sports Day!

  13. Photograph of Kazuki Yamada conducing the orchestra

    Kazuki conducts Respighi & Saint-Saëns

  14. Sebastian Heindl in front of an organ.

    Rush Hour Concert: Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony

  15. Best of Bollywood

  16. Mendelssohn & Wagner

  17. Video Games in Concert

  18. Kazuki conducts Joy

  19. Kazuki Conducts Ravel & Poulenc

  20. Kazuki conducts Mahler 9

  21. Northern Lights

  22. Sibelius & Dvořák

  23. Notelets: Wonderful Woodwinds

  24. Abbey Road Concerto

  25. Classic FM Hall of Fame