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Listen out for radio coverage of the Piano Festival on Wednesday 4 August

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Listen to In Tune on BBC Radio 3, Wednesday 4th August  18.15 to hear all about the Piano Festival with a live performance from Cristina Ortiz.

Sean Rafferty will be interviewing Music Director, Marios Papadopoulos about this year’s Oxford Philomusica International Piano Festival and Summer Academy. This will be followed by a live performance by Cristina Ortiz, who is performing at the Piano Festival the following night.

Thursday 5 August 2010 | Oxford Town Hall, 8pm

CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3 in E flat ‘Eroica’

Cristina Ortiz piano | Marios Papadopoulos conductor

It is the passion, spontaneity and allure so characteristic of Cristina Ortiz’s Brazilian cultural heritage, which are central to her music-making. She returns for the fourth time to the festival to appear as soloist with Oxford Philomusica in Chopin’s unmistakably romantic Piano Concerto No. 2.

The programme will be streamed live on the BBC Radio 3 website, and will be available as ‘audio on demand’ for 7 days after the broadcast.   http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/

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Piano Festival Schedule Alteration: András Schiff

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

PLEASE NOTE: Andras Schiff’s masterclass has changed FROM the morning of Sunday 8th TO the afternoon of Friday 6th!

Regrettably András Schiff has had to alter the day of this masterclass at the Piano Festival. Rather than being held on Sunday 8 August it has now been exchanged with Papadopoulos’ masterclass on Friday 6 August afternoon. If you have booked tickets for the original masterclass, they can be exchanged for Schiff’s Friday masterclass or they will be valid for Papadopoulos’ masterclass on Sunday morning.

Please see schedule of events below:

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Joining the Fight

Monday, April 12th, 2010

Tuesday 20 APRIL |Bridgewater House, 6.30pm

As event organiser Brian Iverson, Chairman, Mayfair and St James’s Committee for Cancer Research UK, rightly says, ‘cancer does not recognise recession’. So we are delighted to be playing a central role in a splendidly conceived occasion on 20th April in support of Cancer Research UK.

The event begins with a visit to Bridgewater House, described as the ‘largest and most opulent private home in London’, which is not normally open to the public. At 6.30pm guests will enjoy a champagne reception in the State Rooms before proceeding to the Great Saloon where the Philomusica will play selections from Baroque Masterworks enlivened by a raffle and a mini-auction conducted by Christie’s.

Tickets £60 available when quoting Oxford Philomusica blog on 020 7499 8751

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A Recapitulation of the Concert Season: Spring 2010

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

The focus of our 2010 season is on individual players from the Orchestra.

 

We began the new year with a traditional Viennese-style concert in the Town Hall featuring works by the Strauss family. This was the first time OP put on a concert reminiscent of those we all enjoy around this time of the year at Vienna’s Musikverein.

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Raymond Blanc & Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons Reaching out to local & national charities

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

Raymond Blanc OBE and Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons have donated £10,000 to the Orchestra, as part of the Manoir’s programme of supporting local and national charities.

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Concert Review: Gilded Youth 11 March 2010

Friday, March 19th, 2010

Oxford Philomusica’s teaming of works by Mahler and Mendelssohn with a modern piece by St Anne’s undergraduate Eldon Fayers seemed at first to defy explanation or logic.

But what binds these three together is their youthfulness; Fayers, clearly, needs no further explanation, but the other two were captured here in their formative years, in pieces that spoke volumes about their burgeoning genius and of the fact that greatness lay just around the corner. Mendelssohn was but 16 when he penned his delightful Octet in E flat, while the seeds for Mahler’s first symphony were sown when the composer was 24.

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On conducting Mahler’s 1st Symphony

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Conducting a massive work such as Mahler’s 1st Symphony is always a daunting task.

Mahler 1 (1st mov) 

It is not an easy work to bring off: the first movement can be elusive, requiring translucent textures from the orchestra and a tempo that allows the many florid passages to remain melodious. The numerous accelerations that the composer demands, need to be made ‘imperceptible’, as the score indicates, and that is another challenge that faces the conductor when asking the musicians to speed up.

Mahler 1 (2nd mov) Mahler 1 (3rd Mov) 

The rustic flavour of the 2nd and 3rd movements, in true Klezmer style, demands excess and my request to the Orchestra in the rehearsal that they should “leave their good manners at home” paid off! The lyrical Straussian sonorities of the last movement, in contrast with the bombastic outcries, are a dream for any conductor, particularly as played by the wonderful Philomusica players with sensitivity and full blooded passion.

This concert proved once again that the Sheldonian musical experience, by which the audience is enveloped by the wonderful sound the orchestra makes, is unique, and an asset we should be grateful for.

If you attended this concert, I’d love to hear from you.

Marios Papadopoulos

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