Programmes

About our programmes

Want to know a little more about the music?

We've asked some brilliant writers to share their insights into the amazing pieces we're playing this season. You can read the notes online, or download a PDF of the full concert programme.

If you'd prefer a printed programme, you can pre-order your 2024-25 season concert programme here and it'll be available for you to collect on the day of the concert. Just show your voucher at the programme desk before heading into the performance.

Pre-order your 2025-26 season concert programmes here.

List of programmes

  1. Best of Bollywood

  2. Mendelssohn & Wagner

  3. Video Games in Concert

  4. Kazuki conducts Joy

  5. Kazuki Conducts Ravel & Poulenc

  6. Kazuki conducts Mahler 9

  7. Northern Lights

  8. Sibelius & Dvořák

  9. Notelets: Wonderful Woodwinds

  10. Abbey Road Concerto

  11. Classic FM Hall of Fame

  12. An Evening of Thelonious Monk & Miles Davis

  13. Project Remix: Revisited

  14. Dvořák & Rachmaninoff

  15. It’s a living thing: the music of Jeff Lynne's ELO

  16. Beethoven & Mahler

  17. CBSO Brass & Percussion at Town Hall

  18. Kazuki conducts Haydn's Creation

  19. The Best of John Williams

  20. Stravinsky's Firebird

  21. CBSO Explores: the New World Symphony

  22. Valentine's Day: Kazuki conducts Dvořák 9

  23. Benevolent Fund Concert: Kazuki conducts Tchaikovsky

  24. Kazuki conducts Shostakovich & Bartók

  25. Musical Magic