Founder and Music Director of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Marios Papadopoulos has recorded a series of discs dedicated to Beethoven’s piano sonatas. Track Listing: BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 16 in G major, Op. 31, No. 1Allegro vivaceAdagio graziosoRondo: Allegretto BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 17 in D…
Track Listing: MOZART Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550Molto allegroAndanteMenuettoAllegro assai MOZART Symphony No. 41 in C major, K.551Allegro vivaceAndante cantabileMenuetto: Allegro–TrioMolto allegro…
The Creation may be embraced by all who love the natural world, of whatever persuasion: Creationist, Darwinian, or something in between. Haydn wrote the oratorio during the years 1796 and 1798. The libretto – a kaleidoscope of landscape, flora and fauna (including man) – was perfectly adapted to his imagination, as…
Founder and Music Director of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Marios Papadopoulos has recorded a series of discs dedicated to Beethoven’s piano sonatas. The first in a series of five, this CD features Beethoven’s first three sonatas composed in 1795 which make up his Opus 2. Following his departure from Haydn’s…
Founder and Music Director of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Marios Papadopoulos has recorded a series of discs dedicated to Beethoven’s piano sonatas. The third in a series of five, this CD features Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Nos 9, 10 and 11, composed between 1799 and 1800. Nos 9 and 10 were…
Founder and Music Director of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Marios Papadopoulos has recorded a series of discs dedicated to Beethoven’s piano sonatas. The penultimate disc in a series of five, this CD features Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 12, ‘Funeral March’, and the two sonatas that make up Opus 27: Nos…
Founder and Music Director of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Marios Papadopoulos has recorded a series of discs dedicated to Beethoven’s piano sonatas. The second in a series of five, this CD features Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Nos 5, 6 and 7, composed in 1798 which make up his Opus 10.
From the birth of Domenico Scarlatti to the death of Ernesto Lecuona – just shy of 300 years – comes nearly 75 minutes of piano favourites: evocations of land-, water- (or moon-) scapes, national characteristics and ideals such as heroism and revolution. All our composers were keyboard players and all…
Handel wrote the masque Acis and Galatea in 1718 for the Duke of Chandos to words by John Gay. In arranging the work Mendelssohn added a viola part and parts for woodwind and brass, in part simply filling in the continuo harmonies. However, he went further than that and rewrote,…
Vladimir Ashkenazy and Mats Lidström (OPO Solo Cello) began their collaboration in London in the 1980s, during Ashkenazy’s tenure at the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra where Lidström was principal cellist. They have since appeared together in concert as well as on disc, including a recording of concertos by Kabalevsky and Khachaturian on…