On 5 September 1920, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra gave its very first concert. 100 years later (to the very hour), the CBSO celebrated its 100th birthday with an online celebration.
Simon Rattle conducted, CBSO’s conductors past and present give interviews and there was a guest appearance from Sheku Kanneh-Mason playing Saint-Saëns’s Cello Concerto No.1.
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Cellist of the CBSO Baroque Ensemble Jackie Tyler MBE shares her insights on the role of a continuo player, as well as how working with wind players and her Baroque cello set-up inform her playing
The orchestra has announced two months of performances with live audiences from 19 May
The composition forms part of the ensemble’s forthcoming album of Mason’s works
The cellist appears alongside the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra and its music director Stuart Malina
Philharmonia musicians perform one of Finland’s most popular Christmas carols, Jean Sibelius’s Julvisa
Double bassist Théotime Voisin and pianist Maurice van Schoonhoven perform an arrangement of the popular opera overture in a tribute to the bel canto tradition
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