Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. The oboe is made of wood (or plastic) with metal keys, and played by blowing ...

The natural music of the mountain reed Pipes in the liberal air, Mix’d with the sweet bells of the sauntering herd; My soul would drink those echoes. From ‘Manfred’, by George Gordon (Lord) Byron ...

Nicholas Carter conducts the MSO in a concert including a new work by Anne Cawrse. Cawrse's The Rest Is Silence was commissioned by the orchestra for their Principal Cor Anglais Michael Pisani; in ...

The Bolton Symphony Orchestra are set to put on a classic concert next month. It will feature a solo trombone, solo trumpet and solo cor anglais, with the beautiful Pastoral Symphony by Beethoven to ...

Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. This section of the orchestra got its name from the fact that many of its ...