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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; Christoph Koncz; Alisa Weilerstein

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

BirminghamKazuki Conducts The Nutcrackers

© Andrew Fox
Tschaikowsky, Ellington, Bernstein
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Kazuki Yamada; Oliver Janes

BirminghamCBSO Christmas Party

© Andrew Fox
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Jess Gillam
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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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An evening of unceasing song: Prokofiev and Bruckner in Birmingham

Ilya Gringolts © Hannah Blake-Fathers
Violinist Ilya Gringolts and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Ilan Volkov make song the focus in a concert that moved from the saccharine to the sublime.
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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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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.