CBSO 2025/26: Kazuki conducts Strauss

Artists
Kazuki Yamada Conductor
Jonathan Kelly Oboe
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Programme
Strauss Death and Transfiguration, 24mins
Strauss Oboe Concerto, 26mins
Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra, 32mins
About CBSO 2025/26: Kazuki conducts Strauss
Booking Opens:
10am Friday 02 May: CBSO Benefactors
10am Thursday 8 May: CBSO Circle Level Donors
10am Monday 12 May: CBSO Patrons
10am Thursday 15 May: Friends of CBSO
10am Monday 19 May: B:Music Members
10am Wednesday 21 May: General Sale
Booking Opens:
10am Friday 02 May: CBSO Benefactors
10am Thursday 8 May: CBSO Circle Level Donors
10am Monday 12 May: CBSO Patrons
10am Thursday 15 May: Friends of CBSO
10am Monday 19 May: B:Music Members
10am Wednesday 21 May: General Sale
Age Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult 18+
Running time This concert will last approximately 2 hours.
Death transfigured into life and some answers to life’s Big Questions.
Be uplifted, be transfigured, be astonished. Two epic tone poems from early in Strauss’s career find the composer questioning the meaning of life and death. Epic fanfares, waltzes and soaring themes seem to provide the answers. Decades later, his sweet and lyrical Oboe Concerto rose out of the rubble of war-devastated Germany, effectively commissioned by a young American soldier (who happened to be an oboist!). Principal oboist of the Berlin Philharmonic and former CBSO principal oboe Jonathan Kelly takes on the solo duties, with the CBSO conducted by Kazuki Yamada.
This concert is generously supported by Jerry Sykes.
Booking Info
Save on tickets with the CBSO’s multibuy discounts, group bookings & concessionary prices (on eligible concerts) starting from £5: See Ways to Save below.
This event is included in the multibuy discount.
Free (limited) ticket for Disabled Visitor’s Carers, as per Access Scheme.
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Getting here
- Symphony Hall
Broad Street
Birmingham
B1 2EA - More info