A double helping of Haydn today, as we hear two of his mature works either side of a Mozart piano concerto.
We鈥檙e delighted to welcome back to the 麻豆社 Philharmonic the cellist Victor Julien-Laferri猫re and pianist Martin Roscoe as soloists in our concert, along with conductor Ben Gernon.
Joseph Haydn wrote his D major Cello Concerto in 1783 during his highly productive 30-year tenure as music director to the Esterh谩zy family. It then lay forgotten for over a century, and interest was only reignited in the Concerto in 1951 when Haydn鈥檚 manuscript reappeared.
Haydn has often been dubbed the 鈥榝ather of the symphony鈥� and his joyous Symphony No. 62, which we hear today, was written a couple of years prior to the Cello Concerto. Its genius is infectious and it was a work that his friend Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart loved.
While Haydn was extremely prolific, Mozart astonished and astounded listeners from a very young age. In 1784, just after Haydn had finished the Symphony that ends our programme, the 28-year-old Mozart composed no fewer than six piano concertos, amongst them No. 18 in B flat (K 456), music of great brilliance but also deeply touching too.