City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

“Heartbreaking and sublime” was how one critic described the sound of John Wilson conducting Vaughan Williams with the CBSO...

​Erich Wolfgang Korngold was only 12 years old when Mahler declared him a genius. It’s easy to hear why...

1931: William Walton takes a huge choir and a massive symphony orchestra, adds a couple of brass bands, and blows English music sky-high...

“Music is life!” declared Carl Nielsen – and Sibelius would have agreed...

Join us as five CBSO players bare heart and soul.

You know that moment at the cinema when you’ve heard that tune before, but you can’t quite put your finger on it? Well, tonight, we reveal all...

Whether you’re a Bruckner buff or a first-timer, this is a piece that everyone needs to hear at least once.

Mahler said that a symphony should embrace everything, and he wrote the beat of his own failing heart into a Ninth Symphony like no other...

Tonight the CBSO puts on its tux and pours itself a Vesper Martini with some of the sassiest signature tunes in cinematic history...