Mozart Clarinet Quintet, Schubert & Hummel

VIENNESE VOGUE

Wednesday 15 March | 7.00pm
Albert Hall
100 Commonwealth Avenue, Yarralumla

Photo credit: Robert Catto

Mozart’s sparkling, beloved Clarinet Quintet remains one of his most celebrated works. In 1808 it inspired his former student and protégé Johann Nepomuk Hummel, whose Clarinet Quartet is a beautiful chamber music work. We also hear Schubert’s unfinished String Trio D.471, a lyrical gem.

Beethoven Septet & Louise Farrenc Nonet

NEW PERSPECTIVES

Tuesday 6 June | 7.00pm
Albert Hall
100 Commonwealth Avenue, Yarralumla

Photo credit: Robert Catto

Large-scale chamber music at its finest! Beethoven’s Septet set an extremely high bar for composers combining strings and winds, a work whose ease and charm disguise its complexity. Fifty years after Beethoven, acclaimed French pianist and composer Louise Farrenc’s Nonet is a brilliant gem that demonstrates her undoubted talent.

Mendelssohn Scottish & Beethoven Eight

MIDSUMMER DREAMS
Rachael Beesley | Conductor

Tuesday 1 August | 7.00pm
Albert Hall
100 Commonwealth Avenue, Yarralumla

Photo credit: Robert Catto

Mendelssohn was greatly inspired by a visit to Scotland when he was 20, his ‘Scottish’ Symphony recalling the dramatic landscapes of that northern land. Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony is harder to pinpoint, a fascinating work that leaps from loud to soft without warning, and at every turn surprises and confounds expectations.