Sheku Kanneh-Mason, star cellist and 2016 BBC Young Musician of the Year, is a player just as intelligent, sophisticated and enchanting as Saint-Saëns’s first cello concerto. He makes his debut with the Orchestra at this Oxford Town Hall concert which includes another young talent to watch: Assistant Conductor Hannah Schneider, who takes the Orchestra through Overture to L'Italiana in Algeri, one of Rossini’s most mischievous and excitable overtures. For the Rossini piece, the Orchestra will be joined will be accompanied by 20 young musicians from Oxfordshire as part of Oxford Philharmonic's Side-by-Side Scheme. In a concert bookended by Mendelssohn, Marios Papadopoulos finishes with the composer’s vivacious, inspired symphonic postcard from Italy.

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