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2019-20 Concert Season
Our 2019-20 concert season is the first of two very special Centenary seasons for us. We hope you’ll join us in celebrating our 100th birthday as we not only honour our past, but create the music of the future.
2018-19 Concert Season
From blockbuster, licensed-to-thrill movie music to spectacular symphonies, and from classical concertos to classic pop songs, there's a world-class musical experience for everyone in the 2018-19 season...
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Handel's Messiah
Symphony Hall, BirminghamHandel’s Messiah isn’t so much an oratorio as a national institution – hands up if you’ve never heard the Hallelujah chorus!
Telemann and Bach
Centre Stage
CBSO Centre, BirminghamWhen you play baroque music in the style of the period, the results are rarely less than a revelation – and the light, lean sound of baroque instruments is a …
Rachmaninov and Shostakovich
–Symphony Hall, BirminghamWar, protest, and a nation on the brink: officially, Shostakovich based his massive 11th Symphony on the events of 1905, but this blockbuster of a symphony is …
African Sanctus
Symphony Hall, Birmingham“I love the world!” proclaimed David Fanshawe: composer, explorer, and creator of African Sanctus: the genre-busting masterpiece that fused western choral music …
Britten’s War Requiem
Symphony Hall, BirminghamIn May 1962, the CBSO gave the world premiere of Britten’s War Requiem: be there, in our Centenary year, as Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and an international team of …
The CBSO at Snape Maltings
On Tour
Snape MaltingsFor the first time Britten’s plea for peace and monument to the suffering of war is performed at Snape Maltings as part of the Aldeburgh Festival.
CBSO Cellos Come Dancing
Centre Stage
CBSO Centre, BirminghamOne cello sounds gorgeous. So imagine the mouthwatering sonic deliciousness when eight of them play in close harmony.
Time Travel
Notelets
–CBSO Centre, BirminghamWhether they’re little dinosaurs or astronauts of the future, every toddler is already a very special kind of time-traveller!
The CBSO’s Bollywood Hits
Friday Night Classics
Symphony Hall, BirminghamIn this spectacular gala concert, we'll be playing all our Bollywood favourites.