Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra - Dvořák Nine

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

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• 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
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