Shostakovich Celebration
The Carducci Quartet continue their acclaimed journey through Shostakovich’s quartets at the Holywell Music Room.
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Fire and Water
Experience the sounds of Baroque in a concert featuring Handel’s lively Water Music and the grand Music from the Royal Fireworks performed by the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra. Pachelbel’s timeless Canon brings serene beauty, while Telemann’s Tafelmusik delights with its charming elegance. This captivating programme transports you to the grandeur of…
William Fong Masterclass
The remarkably talented participants of the Oxford Piano Festival receive masterclasses from some of the world’s leading authorities on piano. The repertoire list for the masterclasses will be available to view from 20 July 2024 on our website.
Two Celli
The combination of two celli with piano creates a powerful sound, close to a symphonic sound. It allows the cellists to remain within the singing register of the instrument. Our programme tonight starts with Bach and ends with a samba and a blues, with Boccherini, Dvořák, Milhaud and John Ireland…
Tchaikovsky Pathétique
Tchaikovsky described his Symphony No. 6 as ‘the best thing I have ever composed or will compose.’ It presents the culmination of the composer’s thoughts on life and love, subjects on which this tortured individual had plenty to say, while leading a symphony orchestra to bear its soul and casting…
Sibelius Symphony No. 2
Alexandra Conunova plays perhaps the greatest French violin concerto in between music that finds hope from grief.
Paul Lewis
Britain’s Beethoven pianist par-excellence, Paul Lewis, joins the orchestra in the perfect surroundings of the Sheldonian Theatre.
Mendelssohn’s Elijah
Premiered in Birmingham, a German oratorio with a Christian soul composed by a practicing Lutheran from a famously Jewish family, Elijah is the consummate work of bridge-building, understanding and reconciliation. ‘I was able to sway at will the enormous mass of orchestra, choir and organ’ wrote Mendelssohn from the West…
Kevin Chen
Generations of musicians have responded unusually yet fiercely to Domenico Scarlatti’s strangely enigmatic yet crystal-clear piano sonatas – micro-dramas in which musical motifs form the characters, from the villainous and heroic to the lonely and lost. Poulenc described them as ‘my favourite Brut Champagne’. A young colleague of the composer’s…
Haydn Nelson Mass
Join the Oxford Philharmonic for Haydn’s Nelson Mass, a monumental work combining magnificence and emotional depth.