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MOZART’S HORN
“I loved every minute of the concert, and I think the Ensemble is one of the finest in the country. I can't wait to hear them again.” Audience member, Canberra
In this concert, we invite you to explore both sides of Mozart’s mercurial nature, and to marvel that a device designed to frighten wolves creates such mellifluous and glowing music.
Mozart loved the horn, and the finest player of the day, Ignaz Leutgeb, was an old friend of the family. Mozart wrote what would become one of the most enduringly popular horn concertos of all time for his friend. Characterised as a “little love duet” between horn and violin, this work is a joyous expression of their friendship.
The program contains an even more virtuosic Quintet by Mozart’s Dutch contemporary Wilhelm Hauff, and includes the Romance in A major, an arrangement of one of Mozart’s Concerto movements, most likely by his dear and often penniless friend Michael Haydn.
AHE balances this bright period instrument cornucopia with perhaps the most emotionally troubled work that Mozart ever wrote: the magnificent String Quintet in G minor, a rare dark utterance from a steadfastly undepressed artist.
There’s a happy end, of course, but it’s one shaded by the sublimely sorrowful music that has come before.
PROGRAM
HAUFF
Horn Quintet in E Flat major
MOZART
String Quintet No. 4 in G minor K. 516
MICHAEL HAYDN
Romance in A flat major for Horn and String Quartet MH806
MOZART
Horn Quintet in E flat major K. 407
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Carla Blackwood - Natural Horn
Skye McIntosh - Violin
Matthew Greco - Violin
Karina Schmitz -Viola
Nicole Divall - Viola
Daniel Yeadon Cello
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90 minutes including a 20 minute interval
PERFORMANCES
Select a location & date from the list below to book
+ Windsor | Friday 20 September | 7pm | St Matthews Anglican Church
Friday 20 September, 7pm, St Matthews Anglican Church
+ Orange | Saturday 21 September | 7 PM | Orange Civic Theatre
Saturday 21 September, 7pm, Orange Civic Theatre
+ Sydney | Tuesday 24 September | 7PM | City Recital Hall
Tuesday 24 September, 7pm, City Recital Hall
+ Australian Digital Concert Hall | Tuesday 24 September | 7 PM
Tuesday 24 September, 7pm, Australian Digital Concert Hall
+ Canberra | Thursday 26 September | 7 PM | Wesley Music Centre, Forrest
Thursday 26 September, 7pm, Wesley Music Centre, Forrest
+ Berry | Friday 27 September | 7 PM | Berry Uniting Church Hall
* Friday 27 September, 7pm, Berry Uniting Church Hall
+ Southern Highlands | Saturday 28 September | 3PM | Robertson School of Arts
* Saturday 28 September, 3pm, Robertson School of Arts
+ Lake Macquarie | Sunday 29 September | 2 PM | Rathmines Theatre
WHAT YOU’LL HEAR
DEEP DIVE INTO THE PROGRAM
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