Charivari Agreable

Eliza in love

Exeter College Chapel, Oxford n Friday, 8pm

Tickets: 01865 305305 or ticketsoxford.com Another exciting programme from the Early Music by Candlelight Summer Festival, exploring the lovers and suitors of Elizabeth I with songs and instrumental dances by composers such as Byrd, Dowland, Cabezon and Ortiz, interspersed with readings of Shakespeare sonnets. Featuring Isobel Collyer (reader/soprano), Layil Barr (recorder/viol) and Kah-Ming Ng (virginals). A glorious and unmissable evocation of Elizabeth England. Also this week, Music for a Mad King (Sunday), Singing in Secret (Tuesday) and French Suites (Wednesday), all 8pm. Visit www.charivari.co.uk for full details.

Oxford Proms Orchestra

CONCERT

Sheldonian Theatre

Saturday, 7.30pm

Tickets: 01865 305305 or www.ticketsoxford.com

The second concert of the Oxford Proms season sees internationally acclaimed clarinettist Michael Hunt join the Oxford Proms Orchestra for Mozart’s sublime Clarinet Concerto, which is paired with Haydn’s spirited Symphony No.104, the ’London’. With conductor John Traill. Oxford Proms ’fringe’ events at the Holywell this week include Oxford Mappa Mundi, Oxford Trobadors, pianist Ning Pookhaothong and mezzo-soprano Rosie Aldridge. Full details on oxfordproms.co.uk Viv McLean

Piano

CHOPIN RECITAL

Holywell Music Room, Oxford

Sunday, 11.15am

Tickets: 01865 305305 or www.ticketsoxford.com

The perfect start to your Sunday — a soothing, relaxing recital of Chopin music by the extraordinary young pianist Viv Mclean, a prize-winner at the Maria Canals International Piano Competition in Barcelona in 2002 and regular performer with many of the world’s most prestigious orchestras and chamber ensembles.

Orchestra of St John’s

OSJ PROMS

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Sunday, 7.30pm n Tickets: 0845 680 1926 or www.osj.org.uk

Enjoy a relaxing evening of music by this world-famous orchestra in the atmospheric setting of the Ashmolean. The programme’s theme is children, and includes Schumann Kinderszenen and Debussy Children’s Corner, both orchestrated by John Lubbock, as well as Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder, with contralto Christine Sjolander.