Are you bewitched, bothered or bewildered when you listen to contemporary music?

“A total phenomenon” was how one critic described the Birmingham-born teenage piano virtuoso Lauren Zhang when she won BBC Young Musician in 2018.

There’s nothing quite like hearing Saint-Saëns’ Third Symphony played live.

The air shimmers, a horn calls, and like a window opening onto an endless vista, Anton Bruckner begins his “Romantic” Symphony.

Max Bruch wrote the world’s best-loved violin concerto, so you’d expect his string chamber music to be rather good.

For some, it’s the roar of a nation awakening to freedom; to others, it’s a life-and-death drama.

From Sunset Boulevard to Evita, to Phantom of the Opera, Andrew Lloyd Webber has singlehandedly reinvented the musical – and given us melodies we’ll remember …

Back in 1913, Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring was so revolutionary that orchestras struggled to play it – and audiences rioted at the sound.

“Is not His word like a fire?” Felix Mendelssohn was a friend of Queen Victoria, but there’s absolutely nothing Victorian about his “Elijah” – and when it was …

The CBSO’s Assistant Conductor Jaume Santonja Espinós has become a firm favourite here in Birmingham, and when we asked him to choose his own concert, he went …

Whirlwind Recordings presents a programme of original and arranged compositions from JUNO Winning and GRAMMY nominated Christine and Ingrid Jensen

So what exactly is an orchestra? Why is the piccolo so small? Why are the double basses so big? And what is a xylophone supposed to sound like anyway?

Stravinsky’s Petrushka is the ear-tingling climax to a supercharged concert, as charismatic guest conductor Gustavo Gimeno teams up with keyboard master Jeremy …

“Hats off, gentlemen – a genius!” declared Robert Schumann when he first met the young Johannes Brahms, and these two great friends are at the heart of a …

Nights drawing in? Had one of those weeks? Then this is the concert for you.