CBSO Youth Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins regularly wows Birmingham audiences with his interpretations of British and contemporary music; tonight he makes his first appearance with the CBSO Youth Orchestra in a powerful 20th-century programme. Former BBC Young Musician of the Year Guy Johnston is the soloist in Shostakovich’s punchy First Cello Concerto, but first the Youth Orchestra brings all its zest and freshness to Britten’s bracing suite of seascapes. And then Martyn Brabbins leads them through one of the great modern orchestral showpieces Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra. Part life-and-death drama, part flamboyant musical firework display, it’ll be a gripping challenge for this outstanding young orchestra.

“There can be no higher compliment you can pay to the CBSO Youth
Orchestra than that they can be listened to like an orchestra of
professionals; no allowances made for youth or inexperience.”
The Birmingham Post, February 2007

Special prices apply: £12 all areas. Standard CBSO discounts apply
see page 50. NB for this concert Adult Family Tickets cost £12 and
Child Family Tickets cost £6.

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