As war ravaged Europe, Carl Nielsen responded with a Fourth Symphony whose thundering drums represent a struggle for the future of life itself.

“Gloriously entertaining” is how one critic described the playing of the young American violinist Benjamin Beilman – and he went down a storm with CBSO …

There’s only one John Wilson – and CBSO regulars don’t need telling that there isn’t a conductor alive who can handle British light music with more elegance, …

Alpesh Chauhan needs no introduction to audiences in Birmingham – and nor does Felix Mendelssohn.

Some music was just born to be played in Symphony Hall – and however well you know (and love) Tchaikovsky’s great ballets Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty, …

On 5 September 1920, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra gave its very first concert. It was a gamble: in unprecedented times, a city recovering from war …

Mirga and the CBSO perform in Lugano with Gabriela Montero

Get on board the soul train with Strictly singing star Tommy Blaize and acclaimed vocalist Vanessa Haynes as they take us on a musical journey through the …

In 2022, Her Majesty The Queen will become the first British Monarch to celebrate seventy years of service, having acceded to the throne in 1952. To mark this …

Handel's Messiah isn't so much an oratorio as a national institution - hands up if you've ever heard the Hallelujah chorus? Yet, even though Messiah was a …

Kept under embargo in the British Library until the 1990s, Vaughan Williams’ Piano Quintet in C minor offers soaring romantic melodies and the expressive …

June is bustin' out all over: so celebrate Friday night with the most successful partnership in American Musical Theatre history. Everyone knows the sound of …

June is bustin' out all over: so celebrate Friday night with the most successful partnership in American Musical Theatre history. Everyone knows the sound of …

Fans call her "PatKop", and violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja attracts a passionate following wherever she plays. Adventurous, innovative and dazzlingly gifted, …

Whilst Fanny Mendelssohn may not have described herself as ‘an eccentric or overly sentimental person,’ her string quartet wrings emotion from every note. What …