Handel Fireworks, by Candlelight
The Oxford Philharmonic returns to London's St-Martin-in-the-Fields for music gleaming and glinting with baroque splendour.
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Baroque Jewels, by Candlelight
Concertmaster Tamás András and members of the Oxford Philharmonic bring you captivating jewels from the musical baroque at London's St Martin-in-the-Fields.
Handel Fireworks
The Oxford Philharmonic performs music gleaming and glinting with baroque splendour.
Beethoven Emperor
Peter Tiboris leads the Orchestra in this celebration of two very different sides to Beethoven: his Emperor Piano Concerto and Pastoral Symphony.
Baroque Jewels
Captivating jewels from the musical baroque, from Pachelbel’s Canon and Albinoni’s Adagio, to Vivaldi's exuberant bassoon concerto.
BACH NOW!
Leipzig didn’t just draw the finest sacred music from Bach. When the composer took over the city’s secular music society Collegium Musicum, he produced a string of orchestral works in a flush of creativity. Among them were the composer’s violin concertos – concise, mature scores in which his characteristic focus…
Sir András Schiff in Recital
As a prelude to the 25th Anniversary of the Oxford Piano Festival we present the Festival’s President Sir András Schiff in recital in the Sheldonian Theatre. Having collaborated with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, Sir András Schiff now focuses primarily on solo recitals,…
Shakespeare in Music
Join us for an evening of wonderful music influenced by and written for Shakespeare’s most beloved plays. Beguiling and atmospheric music by Henry Purcell, Fredrick Handel and William Walton will be interspersed with readings from Shakespeare’s comedies and historical plays including A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest and Henry V.
Serenade for Strings
There can be no better evidence that Francis Poulenc was the ‘half monk, half rascal’ of reputation than the composer’s wickedly disciplined Organ Concerto, a knockabout game of chase and tag for orchestra and organ that one moment plays havoc with Bach and another finds deep spirituality. Former Christ Church…
Music from Amadeus
Miloš Forman’s 1984 movie Amadeus is a masterpiece from beginning to end, telling of the ambition, obsession and jealousy that nearly thwarted the career of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and of the sublime music that poured out of a genius whose foibles and vulgarity were all too human. Mozart’s volatile Symphony…