Dvořák Nine
Dvořák Nine
Billy James the deserter*
Shor Cello Concerto No. 3 in D minor
Dvořák Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, ‘From the New World’
Maximilian Hornung cello
John Traill conductor*
Marios Papadopoulos conductor
Antonín Dvořák was expecting to miss home when he moved from Prague to New York to run America’s first conservatory. What he wasn’t expecting was to be so taken with the spirituals and plantation songs of America that he would fuse them with European traditions to form his symphonic masterpiece. In the end, any residue of sadness in Dvořák’s Symphony ‘from the New World’ is banished by its warmth, drama and spontaneity. Marios Papadopoulos conducts Dvořák’s letter from America here, preceded by Maximilian Hornung performing Alexey Shor’s Cello Concerto No. 3. *This composition was selected to be performed following the OPO’s Composers’ Workshop 2026.
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02 Dec 2026
Tickets: £15, £30, £40, £50
(Students from £5)
Duration: 120 min
Venue: Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street
(Students from £5)
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