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The strong cast brings the more consistent personality and character to Garsington’s pared down Mitridate

05/07/202305/06/2023 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Garsington Opera 2023 [2] – Mozart, Mitridate, re di Ponto: Soloists, The English Concert / Clemens Schuldt (conductor). Garsington Opera at Wormsley, 3.6.2023. (CR)

Iestyn Davies (Farnace) and Soraya Mafi (Ismene) © Julian Guidera

Garsington’s charming and fresh interpretation of Rossini’s well-loved Il barbiere di Siviglia

05/07/202301/06/2023 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Garsington Opera 2023 [1] – Rossini, Il barbiere di Siviglia: Soloists, Garsington Opera Chorus, The English Concert / Douglas Boyd (conductor). Garsington Opera at Wormsley, 31.5.2023. (CR)

Johannes Kammler (Figaro), Katie Bray (Rosina) and Andrew Stenson (Count Almaviva) © Clive Barda

Oxford hears deliberate Mendelssohn, robust Mozart and Argerich’s muscular Beethoven

01/04/2023 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Mendelssohn, Beethoven, and Mozart: Martha Argerich (piano), Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra / Marios Papadopoulos (conductor). Town Hall, Oxford, 31.3.2023. (CR)

András Schiff’s Oxford performance was consistently insightful and unflustered

05/06/202316/02/2023 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven: András Schiff (piano). Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford 15.2.2023. (CR)

Oxford Philharmonic’s anniversary celebrations continue with Brahms, Bruckner and more

30/12/202221/11/2022 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Brahms, Mendelssohn, Jieun Lee and Bruckner: Jennifer Pike (violin), Lauren Fagan (soprano), Claudia Huckle (contralto), David Junghoon Kim (tenor) Simon Shibambu (bass), Choirs of Merton and The Queen’s Colleges, Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra / Marios Papadopoulos and Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey (conductors). Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford 17.11.2022. (CR)

Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra’s Bruckner Te Deum © Nicholas Posner

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The strong cast brings the more consistent personality and character to Garsington’s pared down Mitridate

Garsington’s charming and fresh interpretation of Rossini’s well-loved Il barbiere di Siviglia

Oxford hears deliberate Mendelssohn, robust Mozart and Argerich’s muscular Beethoven

András Schiff’s Oxford performance was consistently insightful and unflustered

Oxford Philharmonic’s anniversary celebrations continue with Brahms, Bruckner and more

RVW’s An Oxford Elegy fittingly gets a 150th anniversary outing in the city of its public premiere

Dorothea Röschmann brings a very definite sense of structure and drama to her Oxford Lieder recital

A remarkable Oxford Lieder recital by tenor Christoph Prégardien and pianist Michael Gees