A highlight of our musical year, we celebrate Easter with our annual performances of JS Bach's sacred oratorio. Featuring some of Bach's most delicate chorales and rousing choruses, this depiction of the last few days of Jesus's life is as powerful today as it was when it was written nearly 300 years ago.
"A terrific blend of fascinating conversation with varied, wonderfully-performed music" The Music in my Life: Booker-prize winner Sir Ben Okri is interviewed by Sue Cook (Crimewatch, Nationwide, Children in Need) Famous people talk about their lives, share their opinions, and discuss the music...
We guarantee a lot of fun at this evening's concert! Japanese pianist Maki Sekiya brings Gershwin's fabulous Rhapsody in Blue to life. Plus an arrangement of famous melodies from Porgy and Bess. The evening is rounded off with Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony, this most dramatic of works representing fate and the search for happiness.
The genius of Gustav Mahler is celebrated with four pieces spanning his lifetime. Movements from his first and final symphonies go hand in hand with Songs of the Wayfarer, composed in his early twenties, and Im Abendrot for a cappella choir.
"A terrific blend of fascinating conversation with varied, wonderfully-performed music" The Music in my Life: Paul Gambaccini is interviewed by Sue Cook (Crimewatch, Nationwide, Children in Need) Famous people talk about their lives, share their opinions, and discuss the music...
Inspired by his wife Clara, Schumann's tender piano concert was a true labour of love, written over a four-year period. His only completed concerto for the instrument, it remains one of his most popular works and tonight will be played by OSJ Artist in Residence Rupert Egerton-Smith. The evening culminates with the ever-wonderful Siegfried Idyll.