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This concert is part of the Ertegun Series and is sponsored by The Ioana Maria Banu Ertegun Trust.

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15
Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55, ‘Eroica’

Marios Papadopoulos conductor/piano

Two hundred years since the death of Beethoven, there remains no composer who has changed music, art and society so profoundly. To mark the beginning of the anniversary year, Marios Papadopoulos conducts the symphony that expanded the ambition and scale of orchestral music almost overnight – the unstoppable force that is Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’. To open the concert, Marios takes to the piano to play and direct a performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 - the piece in which, through its compelling rhythmic drive and unorthodox harmonic shifts, Viennese audiences first sensed that this was a composer who was about to re-write the rules of music.

Pre-concert talk by Richard Wigmore at 18:30
Beginning Beethoven Year: a preview of the season
The Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra is devoting a major part of its season in 2027 to Beethoven. Richard Wigmore introduces some of the themes of this major year-long celebration.

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