RÉMY BALLOT (violin) & JONATHAN POWELL (piano)

Oxford University Orchestra Project Week 1

Strauss: Violin Sonata in Eb, op. 18 (1888)
Ravel: Sonate posthume in A minor, M.12 (1897)
Debussy: Violin Sonata in G minor, L148 (1917)
Elgar: Violin Sonata in E minor, op. 82 (1918)

Following his extraordinary concert of Schubert, Ravel and Rimsky-Korsakov with OUO last year, the great French conductor and violinist Rémy Ballot returns to Oxford to deliver two further concerts exploring the music of Richard Strauss. In the first concert with Jonathan Powell, Strauss’s early Violin Sonata is heard alongside music by his contemporaries, Ravel, Debussy and Elgar.

18:45 PRE-CONCERT TALK: Rémy Ballot & Professor Martyn Harry