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…
Under the greatest pressure, Shostakovich delivered his most supreme masterpiece. Condemned by the Soviet powers after his satirical opera Lady Macbeth, Shostakovich was ordered to write a symphony rejoicing in Stalin’s reign of terror. The result was a score poetic, sardonic and climactic that ends with a forced smile that…
John Wilson brings his conducting wizardry to bear on some of the British music closest to his heart. Punctuated with buzzing overtures by Vaughan Williams and Sullivan, we hear orchestral pictures of Nelson’s Column, Horse Guards Parade and more from Haydn Wood; a serene interlude from Delius and Eric Coates’s…
Legendary violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter makes a welcome return to Oxford in what promises to be a phenomenal performance. Passion sings its way through the second half of the concert: ecstasy courses through Strauss’s depiction of the hedonist Don Juan, while love flows through the climactic tension of the most arresting…
When Dvořák first heard America’s spirituals and plantation songs, he wrote that they would form ‘the future music of this country’. Rather sooner, the spirit of those melodies made their way into Dvořák’s most popular work. In his ‘New World’ symphony, the composer wove the songs of native America into…
#OPOonTour | The Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra embarks on a tour of Japan, with concerts in Kanazawa, Fukui, Nagoya and Tokyo.
#OPOonTour | The Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra embarks on a tour of Japan, with concerts in Kanazawa, Fukui, Nagoya and Tokyo.
#OPOonTour | The Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra embarks on a tour of Japan, with concerts in Kanazawa, Fukui, Nagoya and Tokyo.
#OPOonTour | The Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra embarks on a tour of Japan, with concerts in Kanazawa, Fukui, Nagoya and Tokyo.
#OPOonTour | The Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra embarks on a tour of Japan, with concerts in Kanazawa, Fukui, Nagoya and Tokyo.