Join us for an evening of wonderful music influenced by and written for Shakespeare’s most beloved plays. Beguiling and atmospheric music by Henry Purcell, Fredrick Handel and William Walton will be interspersed with readings from Shakespeare’s comedies and historical plays including A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest and Henry V.
Miloš Forman’s 1984 movie Amadeus is a masterpiece from beginning to end, telling of the ambition, obsession and jealousy that nearly thwarted the career of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and of the sublime music that poured out of a genius whose foibles and vulgarity were all too human. Mozart’s volatile Symphony…
The great Martha Argerich returns to the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra as soloist, in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2.
We welcome our longstanding friend Maxim Vengerov for a performance of Mendelssohn’s love letter of a violin concerto and Brahms's first symphony.
One of the great pianists of our time brings us one of the great piano concertos of all time, Rachmaninov’s ardent and immense Piano Concerto No. 3.
Paul Daniel conducts Schumann’s propulsive third symphony, after James Ehnes plays the composer’s intricate Violin Concerto.
John Rutter leads the Orchestra and the Choir of Merton College for Fauré’s masterpiece of understatement, along with his own setting of the Latin Requiem.
Be transported from the urbane perfection of the Sheldonian Theatre into a concert filled with music inspired by nature.
It’s party time! To celebrate the 25th birthday of the Oxford Philharmonic, Alasdair Malloy takes us to some of the best parties on the planet.
Marios Papadopoulos conducts perhaps Beethoven’s own favourite symphony, as well as directing from the keyboard one of Mozart’s most exuberant piano concertos.