Videos

2011/12 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
Explore highlights of the 2011/12 season, as Andris Nelsons and CBSO musicians discuss the music they’re looking forward to performing most.

Thursday 22 September, 7.30pm & Saturday 24 September, 7pm (Verdi's Requiem) / Wednesday 30 May, 7.30pm Coventry Cathedral (Britten's War Requiem)
Andris Nelsons discusses Britten's War Requiem and Verdi's Requiem with CBSO double bass section leader John Tattersdill.

 

Thursday 12 January, 7.30pm & Saturday 14 January, 7pm
Andris Nelsons discusses Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra with the CBSO's cello section leader Ulrich Heinen.

 

Saturday 3 March, 4pm
Andris Nelsons discusses Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde with CBSO cello section leader Ulrich Heinen.

 

Wednesday 7 March, 7.30pm
Andris Nelsons discusses Debussy's La mer with CBSO violinist David Gregory.

 

Friday 30 March, 2.15pm
Andris Nelsons discusses Sibelius's Symphony No.2 with the CBSO's flute section leader Marie-Christine Zupancic.

 

Thursday 7 June, 7.30pm & Saturday 9 June, 7pm
Andris Nelsons discusses Shostakovich's Symphony No.10 with CBSO violinist and Associate Conductor, Michael Seal.

 

Archive

2009/10 SEASON PREVIEW
CBSO Music Director Andris Nelsons and CBSO Chief Executive Stephen Maddock look ahead to the 2009/10 season in a special video.

 

ARRIVAL OF A MAESTRO
Watch the videos below as Andris Nelsons arrived in Birmingham in September for his first week as CBSO Music Director and with blistering confidence and sheer musical passion he drove the Orchestra straight into a new and exciting era. And we've caught it all on camera!

This video documentary offers a rare opportunity to watch Andris rehearsing, relaxing, meeting and greeting, signing autographs, giving speeches, taking in the sites of his adopted city, studying scores and, of course, conducting the concerts.

Producer/Director Tommy Pearson said: " I've been making a lot of little promotional films with conductors, musicians and soloists this year but none has been so exhilarating to shoot as Andris's first week. Here was a brilliant musician right at the very beginning of a new chapter in his career, working with an orchestra that clearly loved him.......What we have is a fascinating document of that electric first week, a peek inside the life of a young conductor and his orchestra, a unique portrait of musicmaking at the highest level."

"Andris Nelsons is a serious catch for the CBSO."
Anna Picard, The Independent

Watch Part 1 of 3 episodes below