Concert Review: Haydn, Mozart And Friends/ Australian Brandenburg Orchestra

Concert Review: Haydn, Mozart And Friends/ Australian Brandenburg Orchestra

Haydn, Mozart and Friends/ Australian Brandenburg Orchestra City Recital Hall, 13 September, 2017 In a programme anchored by two brilliantly performed favourites of the classical canon, it was as much the left-of-field inclusions that had the audience captivated, when the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra directed from the fortepiano by Paul Dyer AO, presented Haydn, Mozart and…

The Brandenburg orchestrates A meeting of ‘beautiful minds’

The Brandenburg orchestrates A meeting of ‘beautiful minds’

Judging by its popularity amongst listeners of ABC Classic FM as Australia’s most popular composition by Mozart, the Clarinet Concerto in A Major K.622  is listened to an awful lot. Some of these performances would be on a modern ‘liquorice stick’ clarinet, not the basset clarinet, which was the instrument of Mozart’s time for which he would have written the…