Past Performances

Details of our concerts and other performances over the past 10 years can be found below.

Also available:
a complete archive of our performances, throughout the history of the orchestra (searchable and sortable).

2021/22

23 July 2022, Truck Festival
Coates - Knightsbridge March; Silvestri - Back to the Future; Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love; The Beatles - Hard Days Night/Help; David Bowie - Starman; Elton John - Crocodile Rock; Johann Strauss - Tritsch Tratsch Polka; Brahms - Hungarian Dance no.5 (with Chloe Prins); Tchaikovsky - Dance of the Cygnets; Gounod - Faust - Dance de Phryne; Vivaldi - "Summer" from Four Seasons (with Chloe Prins); ABBA - Gimme, Gimme, Gimme;

12 March 2022, Goldmark & Mahler
Goldmark Violin Concerto, Freya Goldmark (violin); Mahler Symphony no.6 More details

13 November 2021, The New World
Beethoven Leonore Overture no. 3; Walton Violin Concerto, Eunsley Park (violin); Dvořák Symphony no.9 (The New World) More details

2019/20

14 March 2020, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky & Borodin
Borodin Polovtsian Dances; Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto no.1, Thomas Kelly (piano); Rachmaninov Symphony no.2; More details

16 November 2019, Tchaikovsky, Strauss & Szymanowski
Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet; Szymanowski Violin Concerto no.1, soloist Michał Ćwiżewicz; Strauss Death and Transfiguration More details

2018/19

27 July 2019, Truck Festival
Coates - Calling all Workers; Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet - Montagues and Capulets; Gulda - 'Cello Concerto - 1st movement (with Tiger Braun-White); Popper - Elfentanz; Johann Strauss - At the Double!; The Beatles - Imagine; The Beatles - She Loves You; Queen - Don't stop me now; David Bowie - Changes; Loewe - My Fair Lady (selection); Zimmer - Pirates of the Caribbean (selection); Williams - ET - Flying theme;

22 June 2019, Beethoven 9
Janáček Sinfonietta; Beethoven Symphony no.9; More details

16 March 2019, Poem of Ecstasy
Vincent d'Indy La Forêt Enchantée; Delius Concerto for Violin and Cello, Benjamin Nabarro (violin), Gemma Rosefield (cello); Saint-Saëns La Muse et le Poète, Scriabin The Poem of Ecstasy; More details Daily Info Concert Review

17 November 2018, Russian Favourites
Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite no.1; Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, soloist Alim Beisembayev; Mussorgsky Night on a Bare Mountain (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov), Stravinsky Firebird Suite (1919); More details

2017/18

22 July 2018, Truck Festival
Coates - Oxford Street March; David Bowie - Starman; Pharrell Williams - Happy; Bizet - Carmen Suite 1 - i) Prelude, v) Prelude; Johann Strauss - Pleasure Train Polka; Sarasate - Introduction and Tarantella (with Eunsley Park); McCartney - James Bond - Live and Let Die; Offenbach - Can-can; ABBA - Medley; George Michael - Faith; Meatloaf - Bat out of Hell

23 June 2018, Mahler, Beethoven & Schumann
Beethoven Egmont Overture; Schumann Cello Concerto, soloist Indira Grier; Mahler Symphony No. 4, soloist Clare Tunney; More details Daily Info Concert Review

17 March 2018, Dvořák Symphony No. 7
Stravinsky Symphony in Three Movements; Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No.1 in G minor, soloist Magdalene Ho; Dvořák Symphony No. 7; More details Daily Info Concert Review

18 November 2017, Bruckner Symphony No.6
Weber Der Freischütz Overture; Joseph Phibbs Clarinet Concerto, soloist Mark van de Wiel; Bruckner Symphony No. 6; More details

2016/17

23 July 2017, Truck Festival
Beethoven - Symphony no.5 - 1st movement; Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique - March to the Scaffold; Dvořák - Slavonic Dance no.8; Massenet - Meditation from Thaïs (with Natasha Sachsenmeier); Strauss - Donner und Blitz; Williams - Star Wars Suite no.2 - Darth Vader, Princess Leia, Star Wars; Williams - Harry Potter Suite (extract); David Bowie - Life on Mars; ABBA - Medley - Does Your Mother Know, Mamma Mia, Dancing Queen; The Beatles - Can't Buy Me Love

24 June 2017, Tchaikovsky & Mahler
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, soloist Tamsin Waley-Cohen; Mahler Symphony No. 5; More details Daily Info Concert Review

18 March 2017, Sibelius Symphony No. 5
Josef Strauss Music of the Spheres; Dvořák Piano Concerto, soloist Julian Trevelyan; Sibelius Symphony No. 5; More details

12 November 2016, Enigma Variations
Bax Tintagel; Walton Viola Concerto, soloist Timothy Ridout; Elgar Enigma Variations; More details

2015/16

18 June 2016, Sibelius Violin Concerto
Berlioz Royal Hunt and Storm; Sibelius Violin Concerto, soloist Mathilde Milwidsky; Debussy Prélude à 'L'après-midi d'un faune'; Strauss Symphonic Fantasy on Die Frau ohne Schatten

19 March 2016, Four Last Songs
Debussy Nocturnes; Richard Strauss Four Last Songs, Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin 'Letter Scene', soprano soloist Rachel Nicholls; Ravel La Valse

21 November 2015, The Planets
Elgar Cockaigne; York Bowen Viola Concerto soloist Lawrence Power; Holst The Planets

2014/15

20 June 2015, Romantic Masters at the Sheldonian
Sibelius En Saga; Brahms Violin Concerto soloist Anna-Liisa Bezrodny; Rachmaninov Symphony no.3

14 March 2015, 'Prize Winners, Walton & Brahms'
Alex Symcox At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners; Walton Cello Concerto soloist Ariana Kashefi; Brahms Symphony no.2

15 November 2014, 'Pictures at an Exhibition'
Tchaikovsky The Tempest; Ravel Piano Concerto in G soloist Alasdair Beatson; Mussorgsky/Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition. Daily Info Concert Review

2013/14

14 June 2014, Dvořák, Weber and Elgar
Dvořák Noon Witch; Weber Clarinet Concerto no.1 soloist Mark van de Wiel; Elgar Symphony no.2.

15 March 2014, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich
Taneyev Overture 'The Oresteia'; Shostakovich Cello Concerto no.1 soloist Michael Petrov; Tchaikovsky Symphony no.4.

3 November 2013, Wagner Bicentenary Concert
Prelude to Die Meistersinger, Tristan and Götterdämmerung highlights with Rachel Nicholls, soprano. Oxford Times Preview