Interspersed with readings by Shakespearian actors from the bard’s most beloved plays, the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra traces Shakespeare’s influence across 400 years of music history.

Former Christ Church Oxford organist Stephen Darlington joins the Orchestra and conductor John Lubbock for Poulenc’s piquant concerto – on the mighty Walker organ of St Martin-in-the-Fields – surrounded by music of bustling charm by Mozart and a melodious serenade from Tchaikovsky that ‘poured from the heart’ of the composer.

This concert presents Mozart both excitable and sublime, his dramatic Symphony No. 25 and his beauteous concerto for flute and harp.