Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra - Dvořák Nine

Marios Papadopoulos conducts Dvořák’s letter from America

Man in black shirt and jeans sitting on a chair in the middle of a cobbled street holding a cello on his lap

Antonín Dvořák was expecting to miss home when he moved from Prague to New York to run America’s first conservatory. What he wasn’t expecting was to be so taken with the spirituals and plantation songs of America that he would fuse them with European traditions to form his symphonic masterpiece. In the end, any residue of sadness in Dvořák’s Symphony ‘from the New World’ is banished by its warmth, drama and spontaneity. Marios Papadopoulos conducts Dvořák’s letter from America here, preceded by Maximilian Hornung performing Alexey Shor’s Cello Concerto No. 3. 

 

 Billy James the deserter*  

Shor Cello Concerto No. 3 in D minor 

Dvořák Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, ‘From the New World’ 

 

Maximilian Hornung cello 

John Traill conductor* 

Marios Papadopoulos conductor  

*This composition was selected to be performed following the OPO’s Composers’ Workshop 2026. 

 


 

Ticket Information

  • General Admission: £50, £40, £30, £15
  • Concessions: £5 tickets for students/under-18s in the Upper Galleries and £5 off any other price band, 50% off for Disabled/Carer tickets (phone only) 
  • Suitable for ages 6+
  • Doors 7pm
  • Running time of 2 hours with interval halfway
  • Latecomers permitted at appropriate pause in the music
  • For ticketing queries, email boxoffice@oxfordphil.com, 01865 980980 

More events


 

Oakeshott Lectures: Bjørn Lomborg - How to Make the World Better? Climate, Poverty & Solutions

Distinguished political scientist Bjørn Lomborg will explain how to make the world better

Oakeshott Lectures: Carl Benjamin – The Postliberal Future

The second Oakeshott Lecture of 2026 with one of Britain's most incisive political commentators

Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra - Thomas Adès conducts

An evening of music framed by Elgar, the composer who has captured the essence of England