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. Notelets: Christmas Party

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  2. Kazuki conducts Walton & Elgar

  3. Seckou Keita: African Rhapsodies

  4. Headshot of Dame Sarah Connolly

    The Music Makers

  5. Tchaikovsky 6

  6. Goldberg Variations

  7. Grieg & Beethoven

  8. CBSO Youth Orchestra: Mendelssohn 5

  9. Kazuki & MILOŠ

  10. Beatle Mania!

  11. Headshot of Jonathon Heyward

    Prokofiev & Sibelius

  12. Photo of Soweto Kinch holding two saxaphones

    Soweto Kinch: White Juju

  13. Sir Mark Elder conducts Brahms & Shostakovich

  14. Brahms 2

  15. Thomas Søndergård conducting.

    Rush Hour Concert: Brahms 2

  16. Fabien Gabel conducting the CBSO

    Mozart & Shostakovich

  17. Kazuki Yamada conducting the CBSO

    Kazuki conducts Beethoven 9

  18. Headshot of pianist Paul Lewis

    Kazuki Conducts Mozart & Mussorgsky

  19. Nikolaj Henriques playing the bassoon with the CBSO

    Youth Orchestra Academy

  20. Edward Gardner leaning against a white wall

    Schubert 9