OPO at Carnegie Hall

Tuesday 7 June 2022
Carnegie Hall, Isaac Stern Auditorium, Ronald O. Perelman Stage, 19:30 

Sarasate Navarra for Two Violins and Orchestra, Op. 33*
Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26
Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68

Maxim Vengerov violin
With soloists from the Juilliard School Pre-College Division*
Marios Papadopoulos conductor

The Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra makes its first appearance at the iconic Carnegie Hall in New York, which has remained one of the world’s most prestigious stages since its opening on 5 May 1891 with conductor Piotr IlyichTchaikovsky. Legendary violinist Maxim Vengerov takes to the stage for Bruch’s radiant first violin concerto. Continuing our commitment to music education at the highest level, the Orchestra and Vengerov will be joined by exceptional young soloists from the Juilliard Pre-College Division in Sarasate’s fiendish Navarra. This landmark event in the Orchestra’s history concludes with Brahms’s first symphony, a work of drama and lyricism contained within a beautifully constructed symphonic architecture and honed by decades of revisions, which fulfilled Brahms’s cherished wish of living up to the legacy of Beethoven