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Christmas Eve Classics
Wed 24 Dec Symphony Hall
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Boxing Day Classics
Fri 26 Dec Symphony Hall
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The Best of Gilbert and Sullivan
Sat 27 Dec Symphony Hall
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Russian Spectacular
Sat 27 Dec Symphony Hall
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Christmas Festival Proms
Sun 28 Dec Symphony Hall
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The Sound of the Musicals
Sun 28 Dec Symphony Hall
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Blockbusters! Music from the Movies
Mon 29 Dec Symphony Hall
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Space Classics A Light and Laser Extravaganza
Tue 30 Dec Symphony Hall
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New Year's Eve Concert
Wed 31 Dec Town Hall
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Johann Strauss Gala
Wed 31 Dec Symphony Hall
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New Year's Eve Gala
Wed 31 Dec Symphony Hall
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Johann Strauss Gala
Thu 1 Jan 2009 Symphony Hall
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Glenn Miller Orchestra
Fri 2 Jan 2009 Symphony Hall
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Viennese New Year
Sat 3 Jan 2009 Symphony Hall
Tap your toes into 2009 with the CBSO’s traditional Viennese concerts. With jubilant works by Mozart, and much-loved waltzes, polkas and arias by members of the Strauss family, let the CBSO whisk you off your feet to a world of dashing dancers and swirling ballgowns.
Carlos Kalmar - conductor Sarah Tynan - soprano
Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito - Overture Strauss: Acceleration Waltz Mozart: Exsultate Jubilate Strauss: Dragonfly Polka Strauss: Furioso Polka Suppé: Poet and Peasant Mozart: Idomeneo - Ballet Music Strauss: Village Swallows from Austria Strauss: Im Krapfenwaldl Strauss: Plappermäulchen! Strauss: Operetta Arias Strauss: Anvil Polka Strauss: Blue Danube Waltz
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Viennese New Year
Sat 3 Jan 2009 Symphony Hall
Tap your toes into 2009 with the CBSO’s traditional Viennese concerts. With jubilant works by Mozart, and much-loved waltzes, polkas and arias by members of the Strauss family, let the CBSO whisk you off your feet to a world of dashing dancers and swirling ballgowns.
Carlos Kalmar - conductor Sarah Tynan - soprano
Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito - Overture Strauss: Acceleration Waltz Mozart: Exsultate Jubilate Strauss: Dragonfly Polka Strauss: Furioso Polka Suppé: Poet and Peasant Mozart: Idomeneo - Ballet Music Strauss: Village Swallows from Austria Strauss: Im Krapfenwaldl Strauss: Plappermäulchen! Strauss: Operetta Arias Strauss: Anvil Polka Strauss: Blue Danube Waltz
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National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Tue 6 Jan 2009 Symphony Hall
There is nothing quite like the excitement of an orchestra of young musicians - and when they’re as talented as the National Youth Orchestra, we can expect extraordinary results. Many of these young performers are having their first encounters with great orchestral music, experiencing it onstage at Symphony Hall with a freshness and passion never to be recaptured - it’s like being in love for the first time! Tickets £5-£37.50
*Programme to be announced*
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Celebrating Nielsen: The Inextinguishable
Wed 7 Jan 2009 Symphony Hall
After last season’s acclaimed cycle of Sibelius symphonies, this season we feature the equally impressive cycle by his exact contemporary Carl Nielsen. His varied output holds the same central place in Danish music as Sibelius does in Finland, and his six symphonies are full of struggle, reflection and strong emotion - just like real life. Principal guest conductor Sakari Oramo begins this series with a charming picture-postcard overture and the composer’s best-known work. Written at the height of the First World War, this symphony is a volcanic musical struggle between the forces of destruction and the energy of life itself, culminating in one of the most uplifting - and thrilling - endings in all music. 6.15pm Pre-concert talk - Nielsen: The Inextinguishable An introduction to the CBSO and the Hallé’s joint Nielsen Cycle and tonight’s concert.
Sakari Oramo - conductor Nikolai Lugansky - piano
Nielsen: A Fantasy Trip to the Faroes 12’ Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 32’ Nielsen: Symphony No. 4 (The Inextinguishable) 36’
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Celebrating Nielsen: The Four Temperaments
Sat 10 Jan 2009 Symphony Hall
For Nielsen, music was all about exploring what it means to be human. And this second concert in the CBSO and the Hallé’s joint Nielsen Symphony Cycle does exactly that. Nielsen’s extraordinary Second Symphony, “The Four Temperaments”, is a musical attempt to paint an entire personality in wonderfully colourful music; his deceptively tuneful Sixth is a musical self-portrait as haunting and unforgettable as anything by Mahler. To these masterpieces Oramo adds Nielsen’s picturesque tribute to the sun, and Prokofiev’s equally warm-hearted violin concerto played by an outstanding soloist. 5.45pm Pre-concert talk - Nielsen: The Four Temperaments Find out more about tonight’s symphonies and overture by this great Dane.
Sakari Oramo - conductor Akiko Suwanai - violin
Nielsen: Helios Overture 12’ Nielsen: Symphony No. 6 (Semplice) 31’ Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 22’ Nielsen: Symphony No. 2 (The Four Temperaments) 35’
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Centre Stage Haydn and Handel in London
Thu 15 Jan 2009 Book through our ticket office for CBSO Centre
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Handel’s Jephtha
Thu 15 Jan 2009 Town Hall
250 years since Handel’s death, we return to the hall where so many of his works have been heard, not least as the cornerstone of the Birmingham Triennial Festivals. Jephtha, his last oratorio, is one of his very finest works in English, and tells the story of the great military captain who finds himself in conflict with God’s law as a result of a rash promise. Featuring a host of glorious arias and dramatic choruses, and with a leading cast conducted by Handel specialist Nicholas McGegan, this is a must for Handel fans. There will be one interval after Act One. 6.15pm Pre-concert talk - Handel’s Jephtha Conductor Nicholas McGegan • in conversation with CBSO Events Officer Richard Bratby.
Nicholas McGegan - conductor Paul Nilon - Jephtha Dominique Labelle - Isis Dianna Moore - Storge Daniel Taylor - Hamor Andrew Foster-Williams - Zebul City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
Handel: Jephtha 150’
