English Melodies
No country’s music embodies a pastoral spirit quite like England’s. Join the Orchestra for their first symphonic concert of the season.
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St John Passion
The decade’s breakthrough baroque conductor Peter Whelan joins the OPO to lead this performance of Bach’s great work of suffering, redemption and hope.
Encounters with Gershwin
Following the sold-out success of this concert at Zankel Hall in New York, come and hear the Orchestra’s musicians like you’ve never heard them before!
Monteverdi Vespers of 1610
In the galleries of the Sheldonian Theatre, Marios Papadopoulos marshals the most majestic and timeless of sacred works.
Mendelssohn Scottish Symphony
The ‘truly outstanding’ pianist Vadym Kholodenko performs Schumann’s concerto, between the most bracing symphony by Schumann’s close friend Mendelssohn and fellow-Ukrainian Myroslav Skoryk’s ever-poignant Elegie.
Verdi String Quartet
Verdi’s only score for instruments alone was written in a hotel room in Naples in 1873 and never intended for public consumption. The composer’s String Quartet has all the songful melodiousness, charming wit and fluent elegance of his operas – combined with the seriousness of a musician who knew his…
Leonidas Kavakos
Kavakos directs the most intimate and adventurous of Mozart’s violin concertos from the violin before laying down his instrument for Brahms’s culminating work as an orchestral composer.
Gershwin and Bernstein
In the 20th century, Bernstein and Gershwin proved that classical music could be revitalised when embracing popular styles, an idea showcased in this performance.
Elena Bashkirova plays Mozart
A pianist with Mozart in her soul, Elena Bashkirova, perform's his most joyous double concerto alongside Music Director Marios Papadopoulos.
Dvořák Nine
Marios Papadopoulos conducts Dvořák’s letter from America, alongside Maximilian Hornung performing Shor's Cello Concerto No. 3.