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 …

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.

Clarinet and bassoon are the orchestra’s beauty and the beast – but Richard Strauss knew that if they could only dance together, they’d fall in love.

For Schubert, serenity and sorrow were two sides of the same coin: but there’s no question which has the upper hand in his mighty Death and the Maiden quartet – …

The CBSO with Jaume Santonja Espinós, Oliver Janes and Nikolaj Henriques.

Mendelssohn himself conducted in Birmingham Town Hall, but he loved Scotland too, and his Third Symphony evokes wild landscapes, skirling pipes and Highland …

“It started simply enough, like a rusty squeezebox…and then suddenly high above it, sounded a single note on the oboe”.