Verdi Messa da Requiem Lauren Fagan soprano Maria Schellenberg mezzo-soprano David Junghoon Kim tenor Blaise Malaba bass Crouch End Festival Chorus Marios Papadopoulos conductor There is no more dramatic setting of the Requiem Mass in the repertory than Giuseppe Verdi’s, written to commemorate friends but giving full voice to the composer’s theatrical instincts and vivid response to religious imagery and poetry. …
Coleridge-Taylor Ballade in A minor, Op. 33* Side-by-Side Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19 Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36 Martha Argerich piano Marios Papadopoulos conductor Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey conductor* The great Martha Argerich returns to the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra as a concerto soloist, in Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto, surrounded surrounded in this programme by …
Coleridge-Taylor Ballade in A minor, Op. 33 Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19 Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36 Martha Argerich piano Marios Papadopoulos conductor The great Martha Argerich returns to the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra as a concerto soloist, in Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto, surrounded surrounded in this programme by orchestral music …
Bach Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067 Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 Mendelssohn Symphony No. 5 in D major, Op. 107, ‘Reformation’ Anthony Robb flute Antje Weithaas violin Marios Papadopoulos conductor After its pious opening, Mendelssohn’s ‘Reformation’ Symphony explodes into a declaration of faith and equality – an image of the Lutheran Reformation as one …
Humperdinck Prelude from Hansel and Gretel Wieniawski Fantaisie brilliante, on themes from Gounod’s Faust, Op. 20 Waxman Carmen Fantasy Dvořák Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88 Bomsori Kim violin Marios Papadopoulos conductor Winner of the Concerto Prize at the 2024 BBC Music Magazine Awards, Bomsori Kim brings her virtuosic storytelling to two spellbinding violin works distilled from great operas: …
Palazzo Sisyphus world premiere* Shor Piano Concerto No. 1 Mahler Symphony No. 1 in D major, ‘Titan’ Behzod Abduraimov piano Marios Papadopoulos conductor Marcello Palazzo conductor* Mahler’s symphonies are his spiritual autobiographies, laying out his experiences and suffering for all to hear. His strikingly confident Symphony No. 1 of 1889 is cast in two parts: first the optimism and energy of …
Beethoven Overture ‘Coriolan’, Op. 62 Paganini Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 6 Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 Carmine Lauri violin Marios Papadopoulos conductor Marios Papadopoulos takes the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra through the momentous symphonic dance that is Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, a work whose pounding, marching and pirouetting permanently realigned western music’s fundamental …
Strauss II Overture Die Fledermaus Mascagni Prelude & Intermezzo Cavalleria Rusticana Puccini Preludio sinfonico Lehár Overture The Merry Widow Verdi La Traviata Prelude Act I Puccini ‘In quelle trine morbide’ from Manon Lescaut, Act II Puccini ‘Donde lieta usci’ from La bohème, Act III Puccini Manon Lescaut Intermezzo Act III Puccini ‘Un bel di vedremo’ from Madama Butterfly, Act III Puccini ‘O mio babbino caro’ …
