Gidon Kremer
Violin virtuoso Gidon Kremer joins the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra alongside Marios Papadopoulos, for an evening of exceptional music.
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Enigma Variations
When Edward Elgar started to improvise a little tune at his piano one day, considering how a group of his closest friends might play that tune, he gave birth to one of the greatest masterpieces of English music. The ‘Enigma’ variations are uplifting and resigned,…
Christmas with Sir John Rutter
Sir John Rutter returns to Oxford for another Christmas celebration in the company of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Merton College Choir and the Choristers of Winchester Cathedral. Sir John’s musical fable Brother Heinrich’s Christmas forms the centrepiece of a programme that features carols and Christmas music old and new including…
Brahms
Two decades in the making, the first of Johannes Brahms’s symphonies is a powerful drama of heroism and defiance whose journey to victory over torment contains as much intimacy as grandeur. This is a symphonic struggle on Brahms’s own lyrical, melancholy-tinged terms with hints of the delicate nobility that…
Bach’s St John Passion
Drama and suffering lie at the heart of Bach’s concentrated depiction of Christ’s arrest, rendition and execution, the St John Passion. But this probing, unsettling yet beautiful work is also one of Bach’s most optimistic, ending with a confident look to the future that invites…
An Evening of Dvořák
When Dvořák first heard America’s spirituals and plantation songs, he wrote that they would form ‘the future music of this country’. Rather sooner, the spirit of those melodies made their way into Dvořák’s most popular work. In his ‘New World’ symphony, the composer wove the songs of native America into…
Cello masterclass with Alexander Chaushian
We are delighted to be welcoming cellist Alexander Chaushian to lead the Oxford Philharmonic’s first masterclass of the academic year.
Ravel Introduction and Allegro
Principal woodwinds of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra take centre stage in a concert welding classical poise to unadulterated beauty.
Maxim Vengerov
Violin virtuoso Maxim Vengerov joins Marios Papadopoulos and the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra for Sibelius’s Violin Concerto.
Hough plays Hough
Sir Stephen Hough joins the orchestra for a performance of his own piano concerto, a work ‘of jaw-dropping complexity and finger-crunching virtuosity’.