The Orchestral Music of Afghanistan
A concert celebrating the rich history of traditional Afghan music at a time when making music in Afghanistan is forbidden.
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The Creation
We are joined by soloists and the Choir of Merton College for Haydn’s transcendental oratorio, representing chaos and the creation of light.
Mission Earth: FUNomusica Family Concert
Mission Earth Tour Guide Alasdair Malloy leads a school trip from another galaxy to approach and orbit the Earth in our second FUNomusica Family Concert.
French Pastoral
Ravel’s musical magic garden of childlike wonder, the ‘Mother Goose Suite’, closes a programme beauteous music from France.
Enigma Variations
Alban Gerhardt plays Elgar’s embittered and sorrowful Cello Concerto, followed by the composer’s profound virtuosic orchestral showpiece.
Bruckner Seven
For the culmination of our season at the Sheldonian Theatre, Marios Papadopoulos conducts Bruckner’s pride and joy, his seventh symphony.
Brahms Violin Sonatas
Rising star violinists (and sisters) Fiona and Hina Khuong-Huu join Marios Papadopoulos at the piano for this traversal of Brahms’s piano−violin works.
Top Scores!: FUNomusica Family Concert
Alasdair Malloy presents the first of this season’s FUNomusica Family Concerts, with some Athletic Adventures celebrating sport and music.
University Residency 20th Anniversary
We celebrate 20 years as the Orchestra in Residence at the University of Oxford, joined by Oxford choirs and soloists.
Tchaikovsky and Brahms
Astonishing prodigy Leia Zhu takes on Tchaikovsky’s powerful and poetic Violin Concerto, followed by Brahms’s magnificent symphony of light and shadows.