Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 Schumann Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61 Vikingur Ólafsson piano Marios Papadopoulos conductor In a standout highlight of this year’s Festival, the beloved Icelandic pianist and born communicator Víkingur Ólafsson joins Marios Papadopoulos and the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra for the piano concerto by Robert Schumann – a supple and …

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The remarkably talented participants of the Oxford Piano Festival receive masterclasses from some of the world’s leading authorities on piano. The repertoire list for the masterclasses will be available to view from 20 July 2024 on the Oxford Piano Festival website.

Glinka Overture Ruslan and Ludmilla* Side-by-Side Alessandro MacKinnon-Botti Voice-Leading** world premiere Walton Viola Concerto in A minor Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 Alessandro MacKinnon-Botti beatboxer Isobel Neary-Adams viola Marios Papadopoulos conductor Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey conductor* John Traill conductor ** Emerging talent from the University of Oxford is to the fore in this concert showcasing the winner of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra’s Senior Concerto …

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Saint-Saëns Danse Macabre, Op. 40 Shor Violin and Viola Concerto Mussorgsky Night on Bald Mountain (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov) Stravinsky The Firebird Suite (1919) Marc Bouchkov violin David Aaron Carpenter viola Marios Papadopoulos conductor Music would never be the same after Igor Stravinsky unleashed The Firebird in 1910 – a ballet score that would herald the pictorial powers with which the composer would shock …

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Bach Mass in B minor, BWV 232 Madison Nonoa soprano Anna Devin soprano Kathryn Rudge mezzo-soprano James Gilchrist tenor James Platt bass Oxford Philharmonic Choir Marios Papadopoulos conductor Marios Papadopoulos assembles a team of front-rank soloists and the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir at the Sheldonian Theatre for a performance of Bach’s monumental Mass in B minor. In the late 1740s, Bach …

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Bach Prelude from Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006 (arr. Mendelssohn) Bach Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004 (arr. Mendelssohn) Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49 Soloists of the Oxford Philharmonic Marios Papadopoulos piano It was Felix Mendelssohn who brought Bach back into currency in nineteenth-century Germany. In addition …

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Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture, Op. 26 * Side-by-Side Mendelssohn Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 25 Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56, ‘Scottish’ Nuron Mukumi piano Marios Papadopoulos conductor Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey conductor* Wandering the streets of Edinburgh and rambling the hillsides of the Hebrides in 1829, Mendelssohn was overcome. Nothing, apparently, had prepared him for the impact of the dramatic …

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Mendelssohn Elijah, Op. 70 (sung in English) Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha soprano Angharad Lyddon mezzo-soprano Adam Gilbert tenor Sir Bryn Terfel bass-baritone Crouch End Festival Chorus Marios Papadopoulos conductor Premiered in Birmingham, a German oratorio with a Christian soul composed by a practicing Lutheran from a famously Jewish family, Elijah is the consummate work of bridge-building, understanding and reconciliation. ‘I was able to …

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Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83* Brahms Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 Marios Papadopoulos piano/conductor Michael Papadopoulos conductor* Music Director Marios Papadopoulos celebrates a landmark occasion as soloist in Brahms’s Piano Concerto in B flat major and conductor in the same composer’s Symphony No. 4. Brahms wrote the second of his …

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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. …

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