Videos

Keep up-to-date with videos about the CBSO’s activities on and off the concert stage on our YouTube channel.

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Mini-musical adventures: introducing our fun-filled concerts for families


A taste of the CBSO's celebrations of Britten in his centenary year


A fresh look at Beethoven's Symphonies - Andris Nelsons & the CBSO

A pop up performance at Moor Street Station

CBSO Mental Health Day Event November 2012

 Video Archive

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, Part 2 & Part 3 of the video below
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."

Watch Part 1 of 3 episodes below

 

Watch Part Two below
Part Two features extensive footage of Andris and the CBSO performing on stage at Symphony Hall, with highlights from Bartok's Miraculous Mandarin and Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique.

Watch Part Three below

Andris Nelsons: Arrival of a Maestro
Produced & Directed by Tommy Pearson
Red Ted Films

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