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. 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