Classical Music Features

Superlative talent: Oxford Bach Soloists

Review: Oxford Bach Soloists: St John Passion @ New College, Oxford - 'Extraordinary beauty and emotional weight'

Norman conquest: Anne Lovett

Review: Erik Satie: Memoirs of a Pear-Shaped Life - 'Beautifully melancholic portrait of an eccentric musical genius'

David Le Page

Vivaldi meets Piazzolla in Four Seasons concert with David La Page

Anne Lovett pianist

Satie show is night of real French fancies

Oxford Bach Soloists Picture: Nick Rutter

Bach Christmas Oratorio at New College Chapel, Oxford - 'Magnificent voices raise the chapel roof for perfect start to Christmas'

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Sarah Connolly returns with an evening of songs by Mahler Picture: Peter Warren.

Oxford Lieder Festival: A Viennese whirl

Santiago Quartet, including Jonny Hennessey-Brown, left. Picture: David Morgan

Hot Latin rhythms and sweet harmonies to take over Sheldonian Theatre this Saturday

Solo Collective featuring Sebastian Reynolds

Three is the magic number for Solo Collective

Sonic landscapes: Max Richter

A Man for Four Seasons: Max's twist on Vivaldi is off the Richter Scale

Celebration: Children get involved in the Waving Hello project

Singers of all ages ‘waving hello’ to refugees

Baton: Nicholas Collon presents work by four composers beginning with ‘S’

It's all about the 'S word' for young CBSO composer

Instruments of Time & Truth Picture: Nick Rutter

Keble Early Music Festival offers student choirs and a mass of treats

Paul Lewis

Popular pianist tells of a self-taught past

‘Captivating’: Violinist Mathilde Milwidsky

A New Year Viennese whirl to keep us waltzing + Oxford festive highlights

Carolin Widmann Picture: Lennard Rühle

Piping-up: Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre hosts classical fundraiser for organ appeal

Natalie Clein

Cellist celebrates thebaroque art of Bach

Christ Church Cathedral Choir

Oxford's Christ Church Choir serving up some unusual musical fare

Mami Shikimori

Mozartian magic links Oxford Proms concerts

SongCycle team

SongCycle: Cycling soprano pedals into Oxford for Opera tour

The Creation dancers Vanessa Kang, Stephen Wright. Photo: Hugo Glendinning

Garsington Opera's dance debut

Revellers at Cowley Road Carnival

'Get behind Cowley Road Carnival and increase the noise!' says DJ Count Skylarkin

High drama: Bampton Opera rehearsals in full swing

Bampton Opera returns with mythology double bill

Toby Spence (Idomeneo) Garsington Opera 2016.

Review: Idomeneo @ Garsington Opera ' an ancient tale with contemporary resonance'

Summertown Choral Society

Celebrating classical anniversaries with seasonal music from the countryside

Haydn Rawstron, Dorothee Jansen, Hanns Heinz Odenthal

Narropera: Accessible opera comes to Dorchester Abbey

Emma Abbate

Sing a song of Shakespeare: Music of The Bard comes to Oxford's SJE to commemorate 400th anniversary

Nicholas Daniel- credit Eric Richmond

'Granny knew best' says king of the oboe

Harping on: Catrin Finch

Spotlight shines on women musicians for Oxford May Music Festival

Merton College Girls' Choir

Here come the girls: Merton College, Oxford launches new female choir

Why do the nations so furiously rage together: Original cast members Daniel Roddick and Elaine Tate

Hallelujah! The Merry Opera Company bring Messiah to Oxford's University Church

Abingdon and District Music Society

Abingdon Musical Society: 'Music makers mark milestone birthday'

Claire Vallance

Pianist Claire Vallance returns to first musical love at orchestra show in Oxford

Star of tomorrow: Mezzo Kitty Whately will give a recital at the Oxford Lieder Spring Song Weekend

Singing the praises of a festival of song in Oxford

Ellen Kent is bringing a triple bill of opera, Die Fledermaus, Tosca and Carmen to the New Theatre, Oxford, next week

You’ll go batty over this opera triple bill from Ellen Kent and company

The Marian Consort, which was founded by Rory McCleery in Oxford in 2006, returns to the Keble College Early Music Festival

Championing the early music scene at Keble College festival

A rehearsal for an Oxford Orpheus Come and Sing event for the Oxford Motor Neurone Disease Care and Research Centre

Come and Sing celebrates its 10th anniversary with Town Hall show

Ecclesiastical splendour: Corona Strings’ next show is in the hallowed surrounds of St John the Evangelist Church, Iffley Road

The Corona ensemble are queens and kings of strings

The Barbican Piano Trio who open the season with an all-Beethoven programme

Piano festival at SJE to hit all of the right notes

Carmen, from Opera Up Close, featuring Anthony Flaum as José and Flora McIntosh as Carmen

Revealing new look for classical Carmen from Opera Up Close

Adderbury Ensemble – Chris Windass third from left

Oxford Coffee Concerts foster sense of community

Magnificent: Andrew Gray conducts the Burford Orchestra

Burford Orchestra are on a new year hunt for classical talent

140 singers and a small orchestra will take part in Britten’s St Nicolas and A Ceremony of Carols at St John the Evangelist on Monday

Community tuning up for massed choir at SJE show

Andrew Griffiths, who will be conducting and singing tenor at the inaugural concert of Bampton Classical Voices

Christmas concert from Bampton opera offers us vocal treats

Italianate: The Marian Consort play the music of 16th-century Rome at Keble College chapel next week

The Marian Consort present a renaissance take on nativity harmony

The Oxford Philharmonic orchestra, formerly known as Oxford Philomusica, is preparing for its new season

Philharmonic walks tall with new name

Full voice: The Oxford Harmonic Choir are a striking live spectacle, their performances being highlights of the choral year

Taking on a big test of orchestration skill for Town Hall show

Villiers Quartet enjoy a laugh

Villiers Quartet add a new string to their bows

Music for all: Max Reinhardt is organising the event as part of the Christmas lights switch-on

Hallelujah! A Handel for all to join in with

Singers of all levels of experience will be joining the Oxford Bach Choir for a come and sing event at St John the Evangelist Church

Oxford Bach Choir get set to raise the roof at Come and Sing event

Sophia Hollely-Barik, Margaret Lack, Naama Brittenden, Henry Jensen, Aidan Lack and Jacob Lewis

A fludde of talented children to perform

Top talent: Mezzo Sarah Connolly is among the attractions at this year’s Oxford Lieder Festival

Festival sings praises of poetic inspiration

Rosie Clifford as Popova and Michael Craddock as Smirnov appear in The Bear

The singing cleaner, waiter and gardener at Opera Anywhere

Some of the Aronowitz Ensemble members, preparing to play in Witney, have local connections with Oxfordshire

Note the date of this musical anniversary

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