Beethoven Pastoral

Monday 4 December 2023

Sheldonian Theatre, 19:30

Mendelssohn The Hebrides Overture, Op. 26, ‘Fingal’s Cave’

Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending

Wagner Forest Murmurs from Siegfried, WWV 86C

Beethoven Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, ‘Pastoral’

Leia Zhu violin

Marios Papadopoulos conductor

Be transported from the urbane perfection of the Sheldonian Theatre into the mysteries of the forest, the wilds of the hills and valleys and the tempests of the open seas. Marios Papadopoulos conducts a concert filled with music inspired by nature, from Mendelssohn’s dizzying orchestral boat trip on heaving Scottish seas to the calm idylls of Wagner’s murmuring forest and the ‘silver chain of sound’ of Vaughan Williams’s soaring lark. The concert culminates in Beethoven’s symphonic visit to the Austrian countryside – in his own words, a ‘ramble for a while through bushes, woods, under trees, through grass, and around rocks,’ that includes storms, partying, feasting and dancing.

Tickets £54 £40 £30 £18 (students from £5)

Supported by Simon and Alison Ryde

Panel Discussion 18:30

Chaired by Cameron Hepburn, Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Oxford. Leading climate experts and musicians come together to discuss the inspiring effect of the natural world in music.

Free admission