The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) is a British orchestra based in Birmingham, England. The Orchestra's current chief executive, appointed in 1999, is Stephen Maddock. The orchestra's music director designate is Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla.
History
Founded by Neville Chamberlain, the orchestra first rehearsed at 9.30am on 4 September 1920, in the band room at the Birmingham City Police's Steelhouse Lane station. The first public performance, as the City of Birmingham Orchestra occurred later that month, with Appleby Matthews, the orchestra's first chief conductor, at the baton. The programme included Overture: Saul by Granville Bantock, a strong supporter of the orchestra's foundation. However, its official foundation is generally reckoned to have been the "First Symphony Concert" in November 1920, when Edward Elgar conducted a programme of his own music in Birmingham Town Hall.
Adrian Boult was chief conductor from 1924 to 1930. The CBO became a full-time organisation in 1944, changing its name to the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in 1948. Chief conductors since then included Rudolf Schwarz, the composer Andrzej Panufnik, Boult in an emergency return for a season after Panufnik's sudden resignation, Hugo Rignold and Louis Frémaux. During this time, the orchestra made recordings and gave regular concerts.
Birmingham (Live with Orchestra & Choir) is a 2013 live album by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, featuring the Orchestra of the Swan and their Chamber Choir Orchestra Conductor Andrew Powell, who was the man who did the string arrangements on the original studio albums. The album, a Comeuppance production, was released by Absolute via Universal. A DVD version of the performance was also released at the same time.
Background
The album was recorded and filmed live at the Birmingham Symphony Hall, England on 24 November 2012. The band, with the orchestra and chamber choir, made up about 50 performers together, and performed the band's first two albums The Human Menagerie and The Psychomodo in their entirety - with some of the songs entirely new to the stage. The sold-out show was a one off performance of the two albums, and also included Spandau Ballet's Steve Norman on saxophone and percussion. Aside from the two albums performed, the band also played three additional tracks on the night; "Judy Teen" (the band's UK Top 5 hit single from 1974), "Stranger Comes to Town" (the title track from Harley's 2010 album) and "Black or White" (from the 1976 album Timeless Flight. Harley commented "It's been a long time coming - something like 39 years. Now we're here, at last, with an orchestra and a choir and a big rock band, to play those first two albums pretty well the way they appeared on the original vinyl. Maybe some things should never change, in spite of progress. Welcome, my old friends."
Birmingham was founded in 1871, during the post-Civil WarReconstruction period, through the merger of three pre-existing farm towns, notably, former Elyton. It grew from there, annexing many more of its smaller neighbors, into an industrial and railroad transportation center with a focus on mining, the iron and steel industry, and railroading. Birmingham was named for Birmingham, England, UK; one of that nation's major industrial cities. Most of the original settlers who founded Birmingham were of English ancestry. In one writer's view, the city was planned as a place where cheap, non-unionized, and African-American labor from rural Alabama could be employed in the city's steel mills and blast furnaces, giving it a competitive advantage over industrial cities in the Midwest and Northeast.
BBC Proms: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (excerpt) | Carnegie Hall+
Filmed in 2019 at London’s Royal Albert Hall with featured cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra performs Elgar’s passionate Cello Concerto and works by Howell, Knussen, and Weinberg conducted by Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla.
Curated by Carnegie Hall from a superb array of new and historic presentations, Carnegie Hall+ offers front-row access to exceptional performances from the world’s most renowned stages—and this is just the beginning. Most of these programs are available exclusively on Carnegie Hall+ and available to viewers in the United States for the first time—all with state-of-the-art video and audio quality for peerless at-home viewing and listening experiences.
New titles will be added monthly to this extensive, ever-growing collection—check back often...
published: 08 Apr 2022
Georges Bizet, Carmen-Suite No. 2, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
1. Marche des contrebandiers 00:32
2. Habanera 04:44
3. Chanson du Toréador 07:00
4. La garde montante 09:42
5. Danse Boheme 12:18
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Hall Birmingham, Oct 2019
Conductor, Anja Bihlmaier
published: 05 Dec 2019
Mahler: Symphony No 2 "Resurrection" (Rattle, City of Birmingham SO, 1998)
Here's what's IMO the BEST version I've heard of this wonderful symphony. It's Simon Rattle's farewell concert with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
Unlike another version of this same video on Youtube, this does not have a horrible glitch in one of the climaxes of the last movement near the 57 minute mark. Hope you like it as much as I do!
Info:
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor "Resurrection"
Conductor: Simon Rattle
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Performers:
Hillevi Martinpelto (Soprano),
Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo Soprano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus & Youth Chorus
(Chorus Director: Simon Halsey)
Date of Recording: Aug, 1998
Venue: Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Direction: Humphrey Burton
published: 20 Nov 2018
Antonín Dvořák: Carnival Overture | Jonathan Bloxham and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
https://cbso.co.uk/
published: 06 Sep 2022
Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, CBSO, Barbara Hannigan, Proms 2016: Mozart, Abrahamsen, Tchaikovsky
BBC Proms 2016. City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla.
Mozart, Die Zauberfloete, Overture
Hans Abrahamsen, 'Let me tell you ...' (with Barbara Hannigan, soprano), 11:00
Interval feature on Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, 48:00
Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4, 53:45
plus Encore, from Tchaikovsky, The Sleeping Beauty, 1:40:00.
published: 07 Mar 2019
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis | Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
https://cbso.co.uk/
published: 11 Oct 2022
God Save The King | Kazuki Yamada and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
At our first concert of the 22-23 Season, we took a moment to reflect on recent historical events by performing the National Anthem.
Conducted by Kazuki Yamada.
https://cbso.co.uk/
published: 21 Sep 2022
Beethoven: Symphony No.7 (II. Allegretto) | City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Book now to view Beethoven's Seventh until 30 June 2021: https://cbso.co.uk/event/symphonic-collection
Music doesn’t get wilder or more life-affirming than Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. Contemporaries thought Beethoven had gone mad. Today, this white-knuckle ride of a symphony has never been more popular – and believe us, when Michael Seal conducts it, he never holds back!
Beethoven Symphony No.7
Michael Seal – Conductor
CBSO Digital Concerts: https://cbso.co.uk/digital-concerts
published: 18 Apr 2021
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 | Kazuki Yamada
Newly appointed Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor (from April 2023) Kazuki Yamada conducts Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 and tells us why this piece means so much to him.
published: 17 Sep 2021
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at the Birmingham 2022 Opening Ceremony!
We are thrilled to be part of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony alongside some of the region’s most celebrated and inspiring artists.
Find out more on our website:
Filmed in 2019 at London’s Royal Albert Hall with featured cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra performs Elgar’s passionate Cel...
Filmed in 2019 at London’s Royal Albert Hall with featured cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra performs Elgar’s passionate Cello Concerto and works by Howell, Knussen, and Weinberg conducted by Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla.
Curated by Carnegie Hall from a superb array of new and historic presentations, Carnegie Hall+ offers front-row access to exceptional performances from the world’s most renowned stages—and this is just the beginning. Most of these programs are available exclusively on Carnegie Hall+ and available to viewers in the United States for the first time—all with state-of-the-art video and audio quality for peerless at-home viewing and listening experiences.
New titles will be added monthly to this extensive, ever-growing collection—check back often to explore. Carnegie Hall+ is currently available on the Apple TV app, Spectrum, Verizon Fios, DISH, and Sling TV.
Subscribe to Carnegie Hall+ to access the full performance: https://carnegiehallplus.com
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Filmed in 2019 at London’s Royal Albert Hall with featured cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra performs Elgar’s passionate Cello Concerto and works by Howell, Knussen, and Weinberg conducted by Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla.
Curated by Carnegie Hall from a superb array of new and historic presentations, Carnegie Hall+ offers front-row access to exceptional performances from the world’s most renowned stages—and this is just the beginning. Most of these programs are available exclusively on Carnegie Hall+ and available to viewers in the United States for the first time—all with state-of-the-art video and audio quality for peerless at-home viewing and listening experiences.
New titles will be added monthly to this extensive, ever-growing collection—check back often to explore. Carnegie Hall+ is currently available on the Apple TV app, Spectrum, Verizon Fios, DISH, and Sling TV.
Subscribe to Carnegie Hall+ to access the full performance: https://carnegiehallplus.com
https://www.facebook.com/CarnegieHallPlus
https://www.instagram.com/CarnegieHallPlus
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Carnegie Hall’s mission is to present extraordinary music and musicians on the three stages of this legendary hall, to bring the transformative power of music to the widest possible audience, to provide visionary education programs, and to foster the future of music through the cultivation of new works, artists, and audiences.
Learn more at https://carnegiehall.org.
https://www.facebook.com/CarnegieHall
https://www.twitter.com/CarnegieHall
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1. Marche des contrebandiers 00:32
2. Habanera 04:44
3. Chanson du Toréador 07:00
4. La garde montante 09:42
5. Danse Boheme 12:18
City of Birmingham Sympho...
1. Marche des contrebandiers 00:32
2. Habanera 04:44
3. Chanson du Toréador 07:00
4. La garde montante 09:42
5. Danse Boheme 12:18
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Hall Birmingham, Oct 2019
Conductor, Anja Bihlmaier
1. Marche des contrebandiers 00:32
2. Habanera 04:44
3. Chanson du Toréador 07:00
4. La garde montante 09:42
5. Danse Boheme 12:18
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Hall Birmingham, Oct 2019
Conductor, Anja Bihlmaier
Here's what's IMO the BEST version I've heard of this wonderful symphony. It's Simon Rattle's farewell concert with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
...
Here's what's IMO the BEST version I've heard of this wonderful symphony. It's Simon Rattle's farewell concert with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
Unlike another version of this same video on Youtube, this does not have a horrible glitch in one of the climaxes of the last movement near the 57 minute mark. Hope you like it as much as I do!
Info:
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor "Resurrection"
Conductor: Simon Rattle
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Performers:
Hillevi Martinpelto (Soprano),
Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo Soprano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus & Youth Chorus
(Chorus Director: Simon Halsey)
Date of Recording: Aug, 1998
Venue: Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Direction: Humphrey Burton
Here's what's IMO the BEST version I've heard of this wonderful symphony. It's Simon Rattle's farewell concert with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
Unlike another version of this same video on Youtube, this does not have a horrible glitch in one of the climaxes of the last movement near the 57 minute mark. Hope you like it as much as I do!
Info:
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor "Resurrection"
Conductor: Simon Rattle
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Performers:
Hillevi Martinpelto (Soprano),
Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo Soprano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus & Youth Chorus
(Chorus Director: Simon Halsey)
Date of Recording: Aug, 1998
Venue: Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Direction: Humphrey Burton
BBC Proms 2016. City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla.
Mozart, Die Zauberfloete, Overture
Hans Abrahamsen, 'Let me ...
BBC Proms 2016. City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla.
Mozart, Die Zauberfloete, Overture
Hans Abrahamsen, 'Let me tell you ...' (with Barbara Hannigan, soprano), 11:00
Interval feature on Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, 48:00
Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4, 53:45
plus Encore, from Tchaikovsky, The Sleeping Beauty, 1:40:00.
BBC Proms 2016. City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla.
Mozart, Die Zauberfloete, Overture
Hans Abrahamsen, 'Let me tell you ...' (with Barbara Hannigan, soprano), 11:00
Interval feature on Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, 48:00
Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4, 53:45
plus Encore, from Tchaikovsky, The Sleeping Beauty, 1:40:00.
At our first concert of the 22-23 Season, we took a moment to reflect on recent historical events by performing the National Anthem.
Conducted by Kazuki Yamada...
At our first concert of the 22-23 Season, we took a moment to reflect on recent historical events by performing the National Anthem.
Conducted by Kazuki Yamada.
https://cbso.co.uk/
At our first concert of the 22-23 Season, we took a moment to reflect on recent historical events by performing the National Anthem.
Conducted by Kazuki Yamada.
https://cbso.co.uk/
Book now to view Beethoven's Seventh until 30 June 2021: https://cbso.co.uk/event/symphonic-collection
Music doesn’t get wilder or more life-affirming than Bee...
Book now to view Beethoven's Seventh until 30 June 2021: https://cbso.co.uk/event/symphonic-collection
Music doesn’t get wilder or more life-affirming than Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. Contemporaries thought Beethoven had gone mad. Today, this white-knuckle ride of a symphony has never been more popular – and believe us, when Michael Seal conducts it, he never holds back!
Beethoven Symphony No.7
Michael Seal – Conductor
CBSO Digital Concerts: https://cbso.co.uk/digital-concerts
Book now to view Beethoven's Seventh until 30 June 2021: https://cbso.co.uk/event/symphonic-collection
Music doesn’t get wilder or more life-affirming than Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. Contemporaries thought Beethoven had gone mad. Today, this white-knuckle ride of a symphony has never been more popular – and believe us, when Michael Seal conducts it, he never holds back!
Beethoven Symphony No.7
Michael Seal – Conductor
CBSO Digital Concerts: https://cbso.co.uk/digital-concerts
Newly appointed Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor (from April 2023) Kazuki Yamada conducts Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 and tells us why this pi...
Newly appointed Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor (from April 2023) Kazuki Yamada conducts Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 and tells us why this piece means so much to him.
Newly appointed Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor (from April 2023) Kazuki Yamada conducts Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 and tells us why this piece means so much to him.
We are thrilled to be part of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony alongside some of the region’s most celebrated and inspiring artists.
Fi...
We are thrilled to be part of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony alongside some of the region’s most celebrated and inspiring artists.
Find out more on our website:
We are thrilled to be part of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony alongside some of the region’s most celebrated and inspiring artists.
Find out more on our website:
Filmed in 2019 at London’s Royal Albert Hall with featured cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra performs Elgar’s passionate Cello Concerto and works by Howell, Knussen, and Weinberg conducted by Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla.
Curated by Carnegie Hall from a superb array of new and historic presentations, Carnegie Hall+ offers front-row access to exceptional performances from the world’s most renowned stages—and this is just the beginning. Most of these programs are available exclusively on Carnegie Hall+ and available to viewers in the United States for the first time—all with state-of-the-art video and audio quality for peerless at-home viewing and listening experiences.
New titles will be added monthly to this extensive, ever-growing collection—check back often to explore. Carnegie Hall+ is currently available on the Apple TV app, Spectrum, Verizon Fios, DISH, and Sling TV.
Subscribe to Carnegie Hall+ to access the full performance: https://carnegiehallplus.com
https://www.facebook.com/CarnegieHallPlus
https://www.instagram.com/CarnegieHallPlus
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Carnegie Hall’s mission is to present extraordinary music and musicians on the three stages of this legendary hall, to bring the transformative power of music to the widest possible audience, to provide visionary education programs, and to foster the future of music through the cultivation of new works, artists, and audiences.
Learn more at https://carnegiehall.org.
https://www.facebook.com/CarnegieHall
https://www.twitter.com/CarnegieHall
https://www.instagram.com/CarnegieHall
1. Marche des contrebandiers 00:32
2. Habanera 04:44
3. Chanson du Toréador 07:00
4. La garde montante 09:42
5. Danse Boheme 12:18
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Hall Birmingham, Oct 2019
Conductor, Anja Bihlmaier
Here's what's IMO the BEST version I've heard of this wonderful symphony. It's Simon Rattle's farewell concert with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
Unlike another version of this same video on Youtube, this does not have a horrible glitch in one of the climaxes of the last movement near the 57 minute mark. Hope you like it as much as I do!
Info:
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor "Resurrection"
Conductor: Simon Rattle
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Performers:
Hillevi Martinpelto (Soprano),
Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo Soprano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus & Youth Chorus
(Chorus Director: Simon Halsey)
Date of Recording: Aug, 1998
Venue: Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Direction: Humphrey Burton
BBC Proms 2016. City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla.
Mozart, Die Zauberfloete, Overture
Hans Abrahamsen, 'Let me tell you ...' (with Barbara Hannigan, soprano), 11:00
Interval feature on Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, 48:00
Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4, 53:45
plus Encore, from Tchaikovsky, The Sleeping Beauty, 1:40:00.
At our first concert of the 22-23 Season, we took a moment to reflect on recent historical events by performing the National Anthem.
Conducted by Kazuki Yamada.
https://cbso.co.uk/
Book now to view Beethoven's Seventh until 30 June 2021: https://cbso.co.uk/event/symphonic-collection
Music doesn’t get wilder or more life-affirming than Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. Contemporaries thought Beethoven had gone mad. Today, this white-knuckle ride of a symphony has never been more popular – and believe us, when Michael Seal conducts it, he never holds back!
Beethoven Symphony No.7
Michael Seal – Conductor
CBSO Digital Concerts: https://cbso.co.uk/digital-concerts
Newly appointed Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor (from April 2023) Kazuki Yamada conducts Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 and tells us why this piece means so much to him.
We are thrilled to be part of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony alongside some of the region’s most celebrated and inspiring artists.
Find out more on our website:
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) is a British orchestra based in Birmingham, England. The Orchestra's current chief executive, appointed in 1999, is Stephen Maddock. The orchestra's music director designate is Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla.
History
Founded by Neville Chamberlain, the orchestra first rehearsed at 9.30am on 4 September 1920, in the band room at the Birmingham City Police's Steelhouse Lane station. The first public performance, as the City of Birmingham Orchestra occurred later that month, with Appleby Matthews, the orchestra's first chief conductor, at the baton. The programme included Overture: Saul by Granville Bantock, a strong supporter of the orchestra's foundation. However, its official foundation is generally reckoned to have been the "First Symphony Concert" in November 1920, when Edward Elgar conducted a programme of his own music in Birmingham Town Hall.
Adrian Boult was chief conductor from 1924 to 1930. The CBO became a full-time organisation in 1944, changing its name to the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in 1948. Chief conductors since then included Rudolf Schwarz, the composer Andrzej Panufnik, Boult in an emergency return for a season after Panufnik's sudden resignation, Hugo Rignold and Louis Frémaux. During this time, the orchestra made recordings and gave regular concerts.
The City of BirminghamSymphonyOrchestra (CBSO) is teaming up with the city’s grime and hip-hop artists for workshops and a concert next year as it attempts to create a “new type of concert ...