Ouo & Rémy Ballot: Scheherazade, Schubert & Ravel

On Thursday 14th November at 8pm at The Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford University Orchestra and Rémy Ballot [https://ouo.web.ox.ac.uk/guest-conductors#widget-id-4204211] present: Schubert - Symphony No. 8 'Unfinished' Ravel - Mother Goose Suite Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade

The Oxford University Orchestra is joined by celebrated conductor Rémy Ballot in an evening of some of the most enduring favourites of audiences and musicians alike.

Celebrated worldwide for his interpretations of the 10 Bruckner symphonies and much more, Ballot – the last student of Sergiu Celidibache – will lead the orchestra in a programme that takes the listener on a musical journey between Austria, France, and Russia, and across almost an entire century.

The orchestra will perform Schubert’s famously (and mysteriously) unfinished Symphony No. 8, which survives in just two movements. The journey continues in Paris with Ravel’s Ma mère l’oye: originally 5 children’s pieces for piano duet based on a collection of French children’s tales. The tales continue with Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, which evokes the ‘fairytale wonders’ of The 1001 Nights. A recurring solo violin melody portrays the clever bride who, with captivating tales of sailors and shipwrecks, princes and princesses, keeps her husband the Sultan under her spell.