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Sibelius' Second
–Symphony Hall, BirminghamA concert that stars a real Birmingham favourite, Baiba Skride, in Prokofiev’s zingy concerto, and ends with Sibelius’s mighty symphonic hymn to freedom.
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Strauss and Schoenberg
Centre Stage
CBSO Centre, BirminghamEvery note tells a story – though the radiant string sextet that opens Richard Strauss’s opera Capriccio merely lifts a curtain on a whole world of emotion.
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Bartók's Piano Concerto
Symphony Hall, BirminghamPowerhouse pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet detonates Bartók’s explosive concerto, and Dvořák’s Serenade serves as a delicate appetiser.
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BBC Young Musician 2018: The Grand Final
Symphony Hall, BirminghamThree talented young musicians each perform a full concerto with the CBSO - one will become BBC Young Musician 2018.
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Marvellous Mozart
Symphony Hall, BirminghamCome and welcome a legend. Reinhard Goebel is the man who grabbed eighteenth-century music and hurled it into our time.
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Mozart's Horn Quintet
Centre Stage
CBSO Centre, BirminghamMozart liked to banter with his friend, the horn player Joseph Leutgeb – but that didn’t stop him writing a Horn Quintet that combines knockabout humour with …
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First Ladies of Swing
Friday Night Classics
Symphony Hall, BirminghamSwing your Friday night away with the fabulous Clare Teal and jazz legend Guy Barker in songs made famous by Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Doris Day and their …
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Family Film Favourites
Family
Symphony Hall, BirminghamPresenter Catherine Arlidge turns off the pictures, turns up the soundtrack and takes a musical journey through all your favourites.
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Prokofiev and Bernstein
Symphony Hall, BirminghamForged in the furnace of war and premiered to the sound of gunfire, Prokofiev’s massive Fifth Symphony is dedicated to “the greatness of the human spirit”.
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Joseph Calleja and the CBSO
Symphony Hall, BirminghamMalta’s superstar tenor Joseph Calleja makes his long awaited return to Symphony Hall, teaming up with the CBSO for an evening of glorious singing and favourite …
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The CBSO in Bristol
On Tour
Colston Hall - Archived
Fauré's Requiem
Symphony Hall, BirminghamGabriel Fauré was a quiet man, and there’s no anger or fury in his haunting Requiem – just some of the loveliest choral music ever written.