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Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra: Four Last Songs
27 November 2025 @ 7.30pm to 9.30pm
About Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra: Four Last Songs
Wagner Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96
Strauss Oboe Concerto in D major, TrV 292
Wagner Prelude to Act III from ‘Lohengrin’, WWV 75
Strauss Four Last Songs, TrV 296
Lucy Crowe soprano
Gordon Hunt oboe
Marios Papadopoulos conductor
In 1948, Richard Strauss sensed the end was nigh. Germany lay in ruins, its major opera houses destroyed by war. As his attempts to ignite a cultural rebirth in his homeland proved futile, Strauss turned to music.
His final goodbye was a series of four iconic orchestral songs that, in the words of David Bowie, ‘ache with love for a life quietly fading.’
Lucy Crowe joins the Orchestra for a performance of Strauss’s profoundly moving musical epitaph alongside the Orchestra’s Solo Oboe Gordon Hunt performing Strauss’s tender Oboe Concerto written just a few years earlier.
Tickets
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Booking information
Ticket prices:
Regular – From £18.00
Student – From £5.00
Dates & times:
Thursday 27 November 2025 at 7.30pm
Running time:
2 hours
About Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra
The Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra is one of the UK’s leading orchestras, recognised for its artistic excellence, international reach, and strong educational mission. Established in 1998 (formerly Oxford Philomusica), the Orchestra occupies a distinctive place in the UK orchestral landscape, combining academic roots in Oxford with an outward-facing international performance profile.
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