

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Nicola Benedetti with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 15 Apr, 2026 at 07:30 pm (+01:00)
- **Event Description**: Elgar Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61
Elgar Enigma Variations, Op. 36

Nicola Benedetti violin
Marios Papadopoulos conductor

The great violinist Fritz Kreisler rated Edward Elgar alongside Beethoven and Brahms. When Kreisler said as much in a 1905 newspaper interview, Elgar picked up the threads of a concerto he’d begun nearly two decades earlier. The piece he finished five years later, performed in this concert by the exceptional Nicola Benedetti, is as epic and emotive as it is personal and elusive, ‘enshrining the soul’ of an unknown person. A more famous enigma is found in Elgar’s dazzlingly virtuosic set of variations for orchestra. His Enigma Variations are portraits of friends and celebrations of orchestral panache. But they also offer glimpses into the soul of an artist who might have been careful not to reveal his secrets but was never afraid to show his emotions.

Pre-concert talk given by Sir Nicholas Kenyon at 18:30
Elgar the ‘great English progressivist’
Edward Elgar is often thought of as a conservative, but Richard Strauss hailed him as adventurous and forward-looking. Nicholas Kenyon explores Elgar as he created pioneering 20th century music and became a composer of unforgettable masterpieces.
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## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://oxfordphil.com/event/nicola-benedetti-2/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=oxford-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Oxford
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Sheldonian Theatre
- **lat**: 51.754476693836
- **long**: -1.2551854483218
- **full address**: Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Oxford Festival of the Arts (https://allevents.in/org/oxford-festival-of-the-arts/12333830)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 15 Apr, 2026 at 07:30 pm (+01:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Oxford Festival of the Arts
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** music, entertainment, concerts, art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Nicola Benedetti with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra ?
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