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Venue: Birmingham Town Hall & Symphony Hall

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AddressVictoria Square
Birmingham
West Midlands
B3 3DQ
United Kingdom
ContainsBirmingham Town Hall
Symphony Hall
Symphony Hall: Jennifer Blackwell Performance Space
Google maps52° 28' 49.188" N 1° 54' 11.236" W
February 2026
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BirminghamBach & Beethoven

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Beethoven, Lindberg, Bach
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; François Leleux; Lisa Batiashvili

BirminghamBrahms' Fourth Symphony

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Shekhar, Strauss R., Brahms
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Eduardo Strausser; Natalya Romaniw

BirminghamThe Stories of Movie Music with Mark Kermode

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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Michael Seal; Mark Kermode

BirminghamHaydn's Nelson Mass

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Beethoven, Haydn
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Omer Meir Wellber; Sir Stephen Hough; Luis Gomes; Stefan Cerny

BirminghamBest of Bond

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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Stephen Bell

BirminghamFamily Concert: Tunes & Tales

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Dukas, Prokofiev, Bernstein, Williams, Ravel
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Chloe Rooke; Tom Redmond; CBSO Children's Chorus

BirminghamKorngold & Prokofiev

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Habibi, Korngold, Prokofiev
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Tianyi Lu; Carolin Widmann

BirminghamCBSO Benevolent Fund Concert

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Berlioz, Mozart, Rimsky-Korsakov
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Kazuki Yamada; Steven Osborne
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Yamada and the CBSO luxuriate in line at Symphony Hall

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Mahler’s First Symphony is given a fresh take, revelling in melody, by Kazuki Yamada and the CBSO, while Dai Fujikura’s new Trombone Concerto proves an unsatisfactory indulgence. 
****1
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Kazuki Yamada and the CBSO showcase Richard Strauss

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The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra greet an old friend and say farewell to another in a thoroughly absorbing all-Strauss programme. 

*****
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Osmo Vänskä ruins Sibelius and Shostakovich in Birmingham

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Soprano Helena Juntunen does her best in Sibelius’ songs but finds little support from Osmo Vänskä and the CBSO. 
*1111
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Jörg Widmann and the CBSO enjoy themselves with Mendelssohn

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The overriding impression of Widmann’s return to Birmingham’s Symphony Hall is one of a man at complete ease and enjoying his music. 

****1
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Gemma New impresses in Birmingham

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Gemma New and Christian Tetzlaff deliver an intense programme of music depicting 20th-century tension and struggle, with the help of a flawless CBSO. 

****1
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Yamada and the CBSO deliver an evening of stark contrasts

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A concert of French music reveals – and suffers from – contrasting styles, attitudes and coherence in works by Ravel and Poulenc. 
***11
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Emotionally-charged modernism: Mahler’s Ninth at Symphony Hall

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Kazuki Yamada and the CBSO give a poignant, haunting performance of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, foreshadowed by Takemitsu’s miniature Requiem
*****
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Symphonic landscapes: Chauhan and the CBSO connect Beethoven to Mahler

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Two very different natural worlds are connected in a compelling performance of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony and Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, featuring Karen Cargill and Brenden Gunnell.
****1
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