| City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | |
| Kazuki Yamada | Musikalische Leitung |
| Fatma Said | Sopran |
Gustav Mahler said that a symphony should be like the world, but sometimes his best music was also his gentlest. CBSO Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor designate Kazuki Yamada conducts a symphony that begins with sleighbells and ends in heaven; first, though, award-winning soprano Fatma Said lights up the sky with Mozart’s special brand of fireworks, and Richard Strauss paints a swashbuckling portrait of music’s greatest seducer.
The concert on 19 January is performed in memory of Jane How.