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1 Tuesday 14 January - 5.40pm at The Abbey Venue: Symphony Hall London Symphony Orchestra Berg: Passacaglia Choir £31.00 Front Stalls £22.75 Berg: Seven Early Songs Rear Stalls £42.25 Circle £42.25 Berg: Three Pieces, Op.6 Circle Ledge £42.25 Upper Circle £37.00 Beethoven: Symphony No.7 Soloist: Dorothea Roeschmann - soprano Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle

2 Saturday 18 January - 5.10pm at The Abbey Venue: Symphony Hall City of Symphony Orchestra Mahler: Symphony No.8 (Symphony of a Thousand) Front Stalls £40.50 Rear Stalls £40.50 Soloists: Erin Wall - soprano Terrace £46.50 Circle £40.50 Natalya Romaniw - soprano Upper Circle £30.00 Grand Tier £30.00 Katja Stuber - soprano Alice Coote - mezzo soprano 3 Karen Cargill - mezzo soprano Joseph Kaiser - tenor Roland Wood - baritone 3 Morris Robinson - bass CBSO Chorus, CBSO Youth Chorus, CBSO Children’s Chorus Voices, Baltimore Choral Arts Society 4 Conductor: Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla

3 Wednesday 22 January - 5.40pm at The Abbey Venue: Symphony Hall City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra 4 Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2 Choir £27.25 Front Stalls £27.25 Schumann: Symphony No.2 Rear Stalls £37.75 Circle £37.75 4 Soloist: Francesco Piemontesi - piano Circle Ledge £43.75 Grand Tier £27.25 Conductor: Kazuki Yamada

4 Sunday 26 January - 2.00pm at St Chad’s Venue: Symphony Hall City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Ex Cathedra 5 Beethoven: Missa Solemnis Front Stalls (side) £21.50 Soloists: Carolyn Sampson - soprano Front Stalls (centre) £36.25 Sophie Rennert - mezzo soprano Rear Stalls £36.25 Circle £36.25 Andrew Tortise - tenor Circle Ledge £43.75 Upper Circle £21.50 Roderick Williams - bass Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore 6 5 Wednesday 29 January - 12.15pm at St Chad’s Venue: Symphony Hall City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Beethoven: Symphony No.2 Choir £27.25 Front Stalls £27.25 Britten: Young Apollo (8') Rear Stalls £37.75 Circle £37.75 Beethoven: Symphony No.4 Circle Ledge £43.75 Grand Tier £27.25 Soloist: Martin James Bartlett - piano Conductor: Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla

6 Thursday 30 January - 10.55am at St Chad’s Venue: CBSO Centre, Birmingham Centre Stage - CBSO Players Schubert: Piano Trio No.2 in E flat £16.75 (concert seats unreserved) Followed by a visit to the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery for two new exhibitions: Birmingham Revolution - Power to the People and Dressed to the Nines. artsforall Walnut Tree Cottage, Pontesbury Hill, Pontesbury, Shropshire SY5 0YJ 7 Thursday 30 January - 5.40pm at The Abbey Venue: Symphony Hall City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Unsuk Chin: SPIRA - A Concerto for Orchestra (25') Choir £27.25 Front Stalls £27.25 (CBSO Centenary Commission, UK Premiere) Rear Stalls £37.75 Circle £37.75 Beethoven: Symphony No.2 Circle Ledge £43.75 Grand Tier £27.25 Beethoven: Symphony No.4 Conductor: Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla

8 Saturday 01 February - 10.25am at St Chad’s Venue: Festival Theatre, Malvern Blithe Spirit - Noel Coward Starring Jennifer Saunders, Lisa Dillon, Emma Naomi, Geoffrey Stalls £40.00, £41.50 Streatfeild and Simon Coates. Circle £37.75, £40.00 Novelist Charles Condomine and his second wife, Ruth, are literally haunted by a past relationship when, at a seance, his first wife, Elvira, is conjured up by Madame Arcati, an eccentric medium. A complication is that Elvira is only visible to Charles.

9 Thursday 06 February - 5.50pm at The Abbey Venue: New Vic Theatre Two - Jim Cartwright Newcastle-under-Lyme Behind the bar of their northern pub the Landlord and Landlady welcome their regulars with open arms. Performed by two £28.25, £29.75 actors playing all fourteen parts, this play takes you into the world of a working class pub over the course of one night. NO WELLINGTON BOARDING

10 Saturday 08 February - 5.10pm at The Abbey Venue: Symphony Hall City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Bartok: Violin Concerto No.2 Choir £27.25 Front Stalls £27.25 Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique Rear Stalls £37.75 Circle £37.75 Soloist: Nicola Benedetti - violin Circle Ledge £43.75 Grand Tier £27.25 Conductor: Klaus Makela

11 Tuesday 11 February - 5.40pm at The Abbey Venue: Symphony Hall 1211 Iceland Symphony Orchestra Bizet: L’Arlesienne Suite No.2 Choir £22.25 Front Stalls £29.75 Ravel: Concerto for the Left Hand Rear Stalls £36.25 Circle £41.00 Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Aireality Circle Ledge £41.00 Upper Circle £36.25 Sibelius: Symphony No.1 Soloist: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet - piano Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier

12 Thursday 13 February - 5.40pm at The Abbey Venue: Symphony Hall City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra 1313 Berg: Violin Concerto Choir £27.25 Front Stalls £27.25 Schubert: Symphony No.9 (Great) Rear Stalls £37.75 Circle £37.75 Soloist: Leila Josefowicz - violin Circle Ledge £43.75 Grand Tier £27.25 Conductor: Juanjo Mena

13 Tuesday 18 February - 5.40pm at The Shirehall Venue: Anthony Hopkins Theatre Bang Bang! - John Cleese Theatre Clwyd, Mold With Tessa Peake-Jones, Tony Gardner and Wendi Peters. 15 Leontine, a respectable society lady, discovers that she’s been £29.25, £36.25 hoodwinked by her husband, Duchotel, who pretends to go hunting but is really chasing other prey! She vows to take revenge but things become complicated when Duchotel’s lifelong friend comes calling. NO WELLINGTON BOARDING

14 Thursday 20 February - 12.15pm at St Chad’s Venue: Symphony Hall City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No.1 Front Stalls £27.25 Rear Stalls £37.75 Respighi: Roman Festivals Circle £37.75 Circle Ledge £43.75 Respighi: Fountains of Rome Grand Tier £27.25 Respighi: Pines of Rome Soloist: Vilde Frang - violin Conductor: Kazuki Yamada artsforall Walnut Tree Cottage, Pontesbury Hill, Pontesbury, Shropshire SY5 0YJ 17 15 Sunday 23 February - 1.00pm at St Chad’s Venue: Symphony Hall CBSO Youth Orchestra Takemitsu: Dreamtime (14') Front Stalls £24.50 Rear Stalls £24.50 R. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel Circle £24.50 Circle Ledge £24.50 Elgar: Symphony No.1 Conductor: Kazuki Yamada

16 Tuesday 25 February - 5.40pm at The Abbey Venue: Hippodrome Birmingham Royal Ballet Swan Lake Stalls £36.75, £43.25, £49.75 Music: Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky Circle £36.75, £43.25, £49.75 Choreography: Peter Wright, Lev Ivanov, Marius Petipa

17 Thursday 27 February - 12.15pm at St Chad’s Venue: Symphony Hall City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Foulds: April - England (8') Choir £27.25 Front Stalls £27.25 Walton: Viola Concerto Rear Stalls £37.75 Circle £37.75 Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony Circle Ledge £43.75 Grand Tier £27.25 Soloist: Lise Berthaud - viola Conductor: Michael Seal

18 Tuesday 03 March - 5.40pm at The Abbey Venue: The House Faustus: That Damned Woman - Chris Bush Birmingham Repertory Theatre This play re-imagines the darkly compelling tale of Doctor Faustus, inspired by the works of Marlow, Goethe and other £34.50, £38.00 20 versions of the Faust myth. Johanna Faustus makes the ultimate sacrifice and sells her soul in order to time travel across the centuries and change the entire course of history. But can she now escape eternal damnation?

19 Wednesday 04 March - 10.55am at St Chad’s Venue: CBSO Centre, Birmingham Centre Stage - CBSO Players Janacek: String Quartet No.1 (Kreutzer Sonata) Brahms: String Quintet No.2 in G £23.00 (concert seats unreserved) Followed by a visit to Winterbourne House and Garden, an Edwardian historic house with an interior designed in the Arts and Crafts style. The garden was lovingly created using the books of Gertrude Jekyll as inspiration.

20 Wednesday 04 March - 5.40pm at The Abbey Venue: Symphony Hall City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Mozart: Wind Serenade in C minor Front Stalls £27.25 Rear Stalls £37.75 Brahms: A German Requiem Circle £37.75 Circle Ledge £43.75 22 Soloists: Camilla Tilling - soprano Grand Tier £27.25 Florian Boesch - baritone CBSO Chorus Conductor: Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla

21 Tuesday 10 March - 5.40pm at The Abbey Venue: Symphony Hall City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Bartok: Piano Concerto No 3 Choir £27.25 Front Stalls £27.25 Bruckner: Symphony No.6 Rear Stalls £37.75 Circle £37.75 Soloist: Piotr Anderszewski - piano Circle Ledge £43.75 Grand Tier £27.25 Conductor: Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla

22 Monday 20 April - 5.40pm at The Abbey Venue: Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham Dial M for Murder - Frederick Knott Tony Wendice, a jaded tennis pro who has given up his career Stalls £29.75, £37.25 for his wife Margot, discovers she has been unfaithful and his Circle £29.75, £37.25 mind turns to revenge and the ‘perfect crime’. As Tony’s plan unfolds he becomes more tangled in a web of his own making. artsforall Walnut Tree Cottage, Pontesbury Hill, Pontesbury, Shropshire SY5 0YJ

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