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Mozart’s Horn with Carla Blackwood

Tuesday 24 September 2024

In the Utzon Room

Classical Music

Humour. Friendship. Beauty. Explore both sides of Mozart’s mercurial nature, and marvel that a device designed to frighten wolves creates such glowing music.

The Australian Haydn Ensemble is not to be missed

New York Concert Review Inc. 2023

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Experience the music of Mozart just as he did

Mozart loved the horn, and the finest player of the day, Joseph 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, superbly performed by renowned soloist Carla Blackwood. AHE balances this bright period instrument cornucopia with a movement from perhaps the most emotionally troubled work that Mozart ever wrote: the String Quintet in G minor, a rare dark utterance from a steadfastly undepressed artist. There’s a happy end, of course, with the exuberant energy of the “Jupiter’ symphony, here in an historical chamber arrangement by Peter Lichtenthal.

Presented by The Australian Haydn Ensemble

Program

Artistic Director & lead violin
Skye McIntosh

Soloist
Carla Blackwood, horn

The Australian Haydn Ensemble

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