Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra - English Melodies

 No country’s music embodies a pastoral spirit quite like England’s, and no piece quite enshrines that idea like Vaughan Williams’s image of countryside serenity rendered in the most lyrical music imaginable, The Lark Ascending. Doyen of English music and former Music Director of English National Opera, Martyn Brabbins opens our symphonic season at the Sheldonian Theatre with works that portray dark clouds above green fields, including deeply moving music by composers killed at the front during the First World War. A concert that speaks of tragedy but also of comradeship includes Roderick Williams’s flute concerto, written for his childhood friend and our own Solo Flute, Anthony Robb.   

Cecil Coles Estaminet de Carrefour 

Butterworth A Shropshire Lad (arr. R Williams) 

Roderick Williams Flute Concerto 

Walton Siesta 

Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending 

Walton Two Pieces for Strings from Henry V  

Holst St Paul’s Suite in C major, Op. 29 No. 2 

Roderick Williams baritone 

Ruth Rogers violin 

Anthony Robb flute 

Martyn Brabbins conductor

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+
• Running time of 2 hours with an interval halfway
• Latecomers permitted at appropriate pause in the music
• For ticketing queries, email boxoffice@oxfordphil.com or call 01865 980980