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Click here to clearRachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto
Classical
Thursday 13 April, 7.30pmSymphony Hall, BirminghamA piano sounds in the darkness, the orchestra surges and swells – yes, there’s a reason why Rachmaninoff’s Second is probably the world’s favourite piano …
Brahms String Sextet
Centre Stage
Friday 14 April, 2.00pmCBSO Centre, BirminghamIt’s almost the end of the week, so unwind the way string players do – with the long smiling melodies and freewheeling humour of Brahms’s First String Sextet.
Final Symphony: Music from FINAL FANTASY
Popular Classics
Sunday 16 April, 3.00pmSymphony Hall, BirminghamThe award-winning concert tour, featuring stunning orchestral suites based on the music from video games FINAL FANTASY VI, VII and X, will make its first visit …
Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony
Classical
Wednesday 19 April, 2.15pmSymphony Hall, BirminghamMozart loved to direct his music while he played it – and that’s exactly what Julian Rachlin will be doing today, as together with viola player Sarah McElravy …
Four Seasons
Classical
Saturday 22 April, 7.00pmTown Hall, BirminghamThe birdsong of Spring, the icy shiver of Winter: baroque music doesn’t get more tuneful – or vivid - than Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.
Kazuki conducts Carmina Burana
Classical
Thursday 27 April, 7.30pmSymphony Hall, BirminghamSex, drink and roasted swans – choral music isn’t meant to be this much fun! But the medieval monks who wrote the words to Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana don’t seem …
Cello Ensemble
Centre Stage
Friday 28 April, 2.00pmCBSO Centre, BirminghamOne cello sounds gorgeous. So imagine the mouthwatering sonic decliciousness when a whole team of them play in close harmony.
CBSO Benevolent Fund Concert
Classical
Sunday 30 April, 3.00pmSymphony Hall, BirminghamDon’t be misled by its title: Pathetique means “full of feeling”, and no symphony wears its heart quite so passionately on its sleeve as Tchaikovsky’s Sixth.