Chamber Series Archives - Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra

Dvořák American Quartet

Join us for an afternoon of chamber music featuring a captivating programme of intimate expression and vibrant melody including Dvořák’s American Quartet.

The combination of two celli with piano creates a powerful sound, close to a symphonic sound. It allows the cellists to remain within the singing register of the instrument. Our programme tonight starts with Bach and ends with a samba and a blues, with Boccherini, Dvořák, Milhaud and John Ireland…

Piano Trio Rarities

Love courses through this programme of chamber music delicacies played by two principal string players from the OPO, joined by the eminent pianist Russell Hirshfield.

Contrasts

Associate Concertmaster of the OPO, Adrian Adlam, joins the orchestra’s Solo Clarinet Laura Ruiz Ferreres and pianist Thomas Hell for an evening of chamber music.

Tchaikovsky Piano Trio

Marios Papadopoulos joins members of the Oxford Philharmonic for a work that is symphonic in scale and theatrical in drama.

Beethoven and his Colleagues VI

Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra Solo Cello Mats Lidström is joined by Sholto Kynoch to resume our series of Beethoven’s cello sonatas, beginning with a genuine rarity: the composer’s own cello arrangement of his perky Horn Sonata in F major. As well as works by the composer’s…

Chamber Music at Merton

An ensemble drawn from the Orchestra with our Music Director at the piano offers treats including Haydn’s bucolic Trio in G major.

Summer Series II – The Eight Seasons

Not four seasons, but eight seasons. Vivaldi’s set of four concertos depicting scorching sun, searing storms and spring dances sound as evocative today as they did in the early 18th century. Few composers have matched the Italian’s combination of virtuosity with melodic outpouring and…