Benjamin Grosvenor’s playing has been called “a kind of miracle”, and last time he performed with the CBSO, this 27-year old British pianist held Symphony Hall …

Driven by torrential emotions, Brahms’s Piano Quintet is a chamber work on the very grandest of scales, so this opportunity to hear it played by Britain’s most …

With a career that ranges from West Side Story and Gypsy to Sweeney Todd, Follies and Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim is Broadway royalty.

Nothing beats a great family movie – and great movies need great music!

Handel’s Messiah isn’t so much an oratorio as a national institution – hands up if you’ve never heard the Hallelujah chorus!

​When 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 …

War, 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 …

“I love the world!” proclaimed David Fanshawe: composer, explorer, and creator of African Sanctus: the genre-busting masterpiece that fused western choral music …

In 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 …

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One cello sounds gorgeous. So imagine the mouthwatering sonic deliciousness when eight of them play in close harmony.

Whether they’re little dinosaurs or astronauts of the future, every toddler is already a very special kind of time-traveller!

In this spectacular gala concert, we'll be playing all our Bollywood favourites.

Join musicians from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for this series of concerts especially created for people living with dementia and their friends, …

The CBSO is 100 years old this year, and that makes us want to party! So for one incredible afternoon, we’re exploring 100 years of music from all over the …