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Thursday 2 June, 7.30pmSymphony Hall, BirminghamIn 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
Wednesday 8 June, 7.00pmSymphony Hall, BirminghamHandel'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 …
Vaughan Williams and Fauré
Centre Stage
Thursday 9 June, 2.00pmCBSO Centre, BirminghamKept under embargo in the British Library until the 1990s, Vaughan Williams’ Piano Quintet in C minor offers soaring romantic melodies and the expressive …
Rodgers & Hammerstein: Some Enchanted Evening
Friday Nights
Friday 10 June, 7.30pmSymphony Hall, BirminghamJune is bustin' out all over: so celebrate Friday night with the most successful partnership in American Musical Theatre history. Everyone knows the sound of …
The CBSO at Saffron Hall: Some Enchanted Evening
Sunday 12 June, 4.00pmSaffron HallJune is bustin' out all over: so celebrate Friday night with the most successful partnership in American Musical Theatre history. Everyone knows the sound of …
Tchaikovsky’s Enchanted Swan Lake
Video on Demand
Available on Marquee TVOnlineSome 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, …
The CBSO’s Centenary Gala
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Available from 24 July on Marquee TVOnlineOn 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 …
Hough plays Mendelssohn
Video on Demand
Available on Marquee TVOnlineAlpesh Chauhan needs no introduction to audiences in Birmingham – and nor does Felix Mendelssohn.
John Wilson’s Summer Delights
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Available on Marquee TVOnlineThere’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, …
Saint-Saens Centenary
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Available on Marquee TVOnline“Gloriously entertaining” is how one critic described the playing of the young American violinist Benjamin Beilman – and he went down a storm with CBSO …
Forces of Nature
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Available on Marquee TVOnlineAs war ravaged Europe, Carl Nielsen responded with a Fourth Symphony whose thundering drums represent a struggle for the future of life itself.
Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Shostakovich
Wednesday 15 June, 7.30pmThursday 16 June, 2.15pmSymphony Hall, BirminghamFans call her "PatKop", and violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja attracts a passionate following wherever she plays. Adventurous, innovative and dazzlingly gifted, …
String Quartets
Centre Stage
Friday 17 June, 2.00pmCBSO Centre, BirminghamWhilst Fanny Mendelssohn may not have described herself as ‘an eccentric or overly sentimental person,’ her string quartet wrings emotion from every note. What …
The CBSO at Aldeburgh Festival
On Tour
Saturday 18 June, 6.00pmSnape Maltings Concert HallSee the CBSO in a gripping programme of Britten and Anna Thorvaldsdottir, joined by soloist Patricia Kopatchinskaja in Shostakovich's Violin Concerto
Season Finale: Mahler's Resurrection
Wednesday 22 June, 7.30pmSaturday 25 June, 7.00pmSymphony Hall, BirminghamWe played it when Symphony Hall opened, and when Sir Simon Rattle said farewell; our recording has won international awards and our Chorus has sung it around …
Cello Ensemble
Centre Stage
Friday 24 June, 2.00pmCBSO Centre, BirminghamMstislav Rostropovich described the cello as a ‘hero’ because of the wide variety of tones and effects the instrument could produce. Our cello section is …