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CoventryBritten’s War Requiem

© Garry Jones
Britten: War Requiem, Op.66
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Kazuki Yamada; Irina Lungu; Andrew Staples; Christian Gerhaher; CBSO Chorus

BrusselsCity of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Britten: War Requiem, Op.66
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Kazuki Yamada; City of Birmingham Choir; Trinity Boys Choir; Elena Tsallagova; Andrew Staples

LuzernA Call for Peace

© Benjamin Ealovega
Britten: War Requiem, Op.66
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Kazuki Yamada; CBSO Chorus; Trinity Boys Choir; Lukas Sternath; Elena Tsallagova

BirminghamBeethoven’s Violin Concerto

© Andrew Fox
Beethoven
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Eugene Tzikindelean

BirminghamElgar’s Cello Concerto

© Jonathan Ferro
Weinberg, Elgar, Schostakowitsch
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

BirminghamEx Cathedra: Britten at Christmas

© Simon Peter King
Britten
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Jeffrey Skidmore; Sebastian Hill; Katherine Thomas; Exeter Cathedral Choir; Academy of Vocal Music
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Erfolg für den Einspringer: Louis Schwizgebel mit dem CBSO in Zürich

Louis Schwizgebel mit dem CBSO © Christian Meuwly
Eklat bei der Schweizer Tournee des City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra: Starpianist Fazıl Say wurde wegen einer Israel-kritischen Äusserungen kurzfristig ausgeladen. Eine Chance für den Einspringer.
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Weinberg, Strawinsky und Tschaikowsky mit dem CBSO und Gražinytė-Tyla

Klangschön aber letztlich zu kalkuliert, um Emotionen zu wecken – so präsentierte sich das City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra zu Gast im Stefaniensaal.

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Yamada brings impressive solemnity to Mahler 2 at Symphony Hall

Kazuki Yamada conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra © Hannah Blake-Fathers
Kazuki Yamada and the CBSO give an extraordinary performance of Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony, avoiding spectacle in favour of solemnity, ceremony and, finally, hard-won glory.
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Yamada’s lightning strike electrifies Poulenc and Adams at the Proms

Lucas and Arthur Jussen with Kazuki Yamada and the CBSO © BBC | Chris Christodoulou
Pianist brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen spar with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Poulenc before John Adams’ epic Harmonium.
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Carlo Rizzi brings Respighi’s Rome to Birmingham

Fleur Barron and Carlo Rizzi © Jude Radley

Carlos Rizzi believes that Puccini’s orchestrations are good enough to stand alone, without their vocal lines, but can the drama compete with the romance of Respighi?

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Nelson Goerner shines with the CBSO and Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody

Nelson Goerner © Jude Radley

The CBSO present the work of three European émigré composers of the 1930s and 40s, who reimagined their musical influences with contrasting approaches and results.

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Britten’s War Requiem: The horror and the pity

Benjamin Britten © Szalay Zoltán
Ahead of a performance on Remembrance Day in Coventry Cathedral, Catherine Arlidge, former violinist with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra talks about performing one of Britten’s most public and personal works. 

Beethoven und mehr: Migros-Kulturprozent-Classics 2026/27

Esa-Pekka Salonen dirigiert das Philharmonia Orchestra © Philharmonia Orchestra | Marc Gascoigne
In dieser Saison stellt die führende öffentliche Konzertreihe der Schweiz mehrere bemerkenswerte Beethoven-Aufführungen einer Vielzahl anderer Musikstücke aus aller Welt gegenüber.

Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra: An emotional rollercoaster

Oli Janes © Hannah Fathers
Principal clarinettist with the CBSO, Oli Janes talks about the elegies, raucous dances and virtuoso fireworks of Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, which the orchestra performs in April.