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The White Hat Guide to the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Fiona Campbell with the Australian Brandenburg Ochestra
(photograph supplied courtesy of Australian Brandenburg Orchestra)
You can find the official website of this splendid period instrument ensemble at Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. 
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra at the Melbourne Recital Centre
(photograph supplied courtesy of Australian Brandenburg Orchestra)
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Australian Brandenburg Orchestra - Bach Eternal
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them , Bach and Handel wrote some of the most glorious choral music of the
Baroque period. Much of it involves collaboration with the orchestra which
sometimes the voices taking the lead and at others the instruments. White Hat
suggests that you are most likely to hear and appreciate this interplay when
period instruments are used at a high standard as you can be assured will happen
when the Brandenburg Choir joins with the
Australian
Brandenburg Orchestra under Artistic Director and conductor Paul Dyer
7pm Wed 9, Fri 11, Wed 16, Fri 18, Sat 19 May; 2pm Sat 19 May
2012, City Recital
Hall, Angel Place, Sydney |
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Enquiries & bookings: 1300 782 856 |
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Australian Brandenburg Orchestra - Dazzling Virtuoso
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Most people know of the surprising loud chord in Haydn's Surprise Symphony.
White Hat suggests that fewer people realise how surprising the opening three
notes by the soloist of Haydn's trumpet concerto were at the time. The
natural trumpet had
already become an accepted part of larger Baroque orchestras but, just like a
bugle, it could basically play fanfares - melodies only being possible at the
top of its range. By the end of the 18th century a
keyed trumpet had been
created to overcome this limitation. It was for this keyed trumpet and the same
particularly skilled player that both Haydn and Hummel wrote their trumpet
concertos. Hummel introduces the trumpet with a suitable fanfare flourish but
Haydn creates the real surprise by having the trumpet play the first three notes
of the major scale in the middle of its range. To see why this was such a
surprise go to The
White Hat Guide to Haydn's Trumpet Concerto.
The keyed trumpet never found widespread use in the orchestra and was
eventually replaced by the
valve trumpet. However Gabriele Cassone from Italy has become a
skilled performer on the keyed trumpet so when he joins with the
Australian
Brandenburg Orchestra (Artistic Director Paul Dyer) you know you are in for
a truly surprising concert.
7pm Wed 25th & Fri 27th July , Wed 1st , Fri 3rd & Sat 4th Aug; 2pm Sat
2nd Aug
2012, City Recital
Hall, Angel Place, Sydney
7pm,
Sat 28th July; 5pm 29th July 2012,
Melbourne Recital Centre |
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Enquiries & bookings: 1300 782 856 |
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Australian Brandenburg Orchestra - Beautiful Minds
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In
an age when "awesome" has come to mean fleetingly interesting rather than
inspiring awe, you could be forgiven for ignoring the publicist's attachment of
the word "beautiful minds" to this concert. However in this case White Hat
believes the hype is well founded. To have written magical works by your mid
teens and by your death in your mid thirties to have left the world with some of
its most glorious music does require a beautiful mind and both Mozart and
Mendelssohn possessed one.
Mozart's clarinet concerto was written for the basset clarinet of the period
but is most often heard today on the modern orchestral clarinet involving the
minor rewriting of some of the passages featuring the lower notes. Only a few
notes you may say, but with Mozart every note is important. Here is a rare
opportunity to hear Mozart's clarinet concerto featuring the instruments for
which he wrote it.Craig Hill (bassett clarinet) and Madeleine Easton (period
violin) perform with the
Australian
Brandenburg Orchestra (Artistic Director Paul Dyer)
7pm, Wed 24th, Fri 26th, Wed 31st Oct, Fri 2nd & Sat 3rd Nov
2012; 2pm Sat 3rd Nov, City Recital
Hall, Angel Place, Sydney
7pm, Sat 27th Oct & 5pm Sun 28th Oct 2012, Melbourne Recital Centre |
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Enquiries & bookings: 1300 782 856 |
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Kirsten Barry (oboe) with Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
(photograph supplied courtesy of Australian Brandenburg Orchestra)
| Page last updated: | 08 February, 2012 | | URL:
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