This year’s CBSO Youth Orchestra Academy plunges into the dark heart of the twentieth century.

Gurrelieder is a tale of a love that even death cannot vanquish, of rage against the heavens, and ultimately of consolation in a closing musical sunrise of …

“An ecstatic performance” was how The Times described Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla’s interpretation of Beethoven’s Fifth earlier this year...

The CBSO and Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla explore the theme of political and artistic freedom.

With Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducting the CBSO Chorus and a world-class team of soloists, there’s no more life-affirming way to open our new season.

A jingle of sleigh bells and a flurry of birdsong: Mahler’s Fourth Symphony begins like Mozart and ends with a child’s idea of heaven.

It only takes a handful of players to create an explosion of colour.

Mahler’s Fourth Symphony begins like Mozart and ends with a child’s idea of heaven...

Meet our Artist in Residence, Jörg Widmann – composer, conductor and today, clarinettist extraordinaire in Mozart’s hugely popular concerto.

It’s not every day you meet a musician who’s the complete package: but Jörg Widmann – dazzling composer, inspiring conductor and clarinettist extraordinaire – …

Petrograd, 1917: crowds fill the streets, the guns of a warship thunder in the distance, and the air crackles with menace...