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’ …
MacKinnon-Botti King of Kings* world premiere Schoenberg Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, Op. 41 Haydn Mass No. 11 in D minor, ‘Nelson Mass’, Hob. XXII:II Annie Dutoit-Argerich narrator Alessandro MacKinnon-Botti beatboxer* Cédric Pescia piano Marios Papadopoulos conductor Oxford Philharmonic Choir The evening begins with a world premiere by MacKinnon-Botti, a contemporary composition that promises to challenge and inspire, featuring the composer himself as beatboxing …
Dvořák Carnival Overture, Op. 92* side-by-side Shor Violin Concerto No. 7 Strauss Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40 Giuseppe Gibboni violin Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey conductor* Marios Papadopoulos conductor Richard Strauss spent the first half of his career producing a string of opulent, proto-cinematic tone poems that redefined orchestral virtuosity. The most epic of them is also the consummate musical autobiography. Ein Heldenleben is a …
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 Maxim Vengerov violin Rainer Küchl guest concertmaster Marios Papadopoulos conductor Violin virtuoso Maxim Vengerov joins Marios Papadopoulos and the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra for a stunning evening of intensity and grandeur. Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D major, with its heartfelt and romantic lyricism, provides …
Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 Fflur Wyn soprano James Atkinson baritone Crouch End Festival Chorus Marios Papadopoulos conductor In 1857, grieving his late mother, Johannes Brahms began work on his choral masterpiece Ein deutsches Requiem. Brahms’s colleague Schumann believed Brahms would deliver ‘wonderful glimpses of the spirit world’. Brahms obliged with a Requiem unlike any other: a piece …
Elgar Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61 Elgar Enigma Variations, Op. 36 Nicola Benedetti violin Marios Papadopoulos conductor The great violinist Fritz Kreisler rated Edward Elgar alongside Beethoven and Brahms. When Kreisler said as much in a 1905 newspaper interview, Elgar picked up the threads of a concerto he’d begun nearly two decades earlier. The piece he finished …
