Reviews

Raphael Wallfisch.  There are concerts that entertain and there are concerts that move you. Very rarely, there are concerts that change something in you, that send you home quieter, more thoughtful and more grateful simply to be alive. Music Composed in Auschwitz, performed by the Orchestra of...

Our annual fundraising concert on November 20th 2025 as a huge success in raising the profile of The Music Therapy Charity. Held at St John’s Waterloo, with the St John’s Orchestra, conducted by John Lubbock, one of our Vice Presidents...

Jeneba Kanneh-Mason and the OSJ Orchestra were locked in perfect synergy, the opening of Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major, Allegramente, sparkling with jazz-inflected vitality, while the central Adagio assai was rendered with such poignant beauty that the audience at Dorchester Abbey on Saturday night sat in rapt silence....

Alexander-Armstrong I am a massive Alexander Armstrong fan and listen to him presenting Classic FM at every opportunity, but I wanted to know more, and the chance to hear his ‘The Music In My Life’ at The Sheldonian accompanied by OSJ‘s extraordinary orchestra was too...

You can’t get much more of a famous classic than Ravel’s Bolero. It must surely be up there with Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony – in terms of those four instantly recognisable and iconic notes. However, the Orchestra of St John’s made us wait for...

As droll and down-to-earth as ever, Sir Michael Palin arrived on stage at The Sheldonian to riotous applause, the sold out audience keen to hear of his exploits and adventures, life in comedy, global travels and time as a student in Oxford. Interviewed...