Mozart Clarinet Quintet, Schubert & Hummel

VIENNESE VOGUE

Friday 10 March | 7.00pm
Adamstown Uniting Church
228 Brunker Road, Adamstown

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

Wednesday 7 June | 7.00pm
Adamstown Uniting Church
228 Brunker Road, Adamstown

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

Saturday 5 August | 7.00pm
Newcastle City Hall
290 King St, Newcastle

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.