WINTER FESTIVAL I – MASTERPIECES FOR HARMONIE

Members of Boxwood & Brass work regularly with top orchestras from across Europe, including Ensemble Pygmalion, the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Academy of Ancient Music, Gabrieli Players, L’Orchestre des Champs-Élysées and the Orchestra of The Age of Enlightenment. For sixty years from 1770, many wealthy patrons and nobles in German-speaking lands employed a wind ensemble, often pairs of oboes and/or clarinets, horns and bassoons. Harmonien were status symbols, particularly after the Austrian Emperor formed his own eight-part ensemble around 1782. Arrangements, very much part of Viennese musical culture at the beginning of the nineteenth century, were central to Harmoniemusik. And “arrangement” was not a dirty word: re-workings were considered as valid parallel versions of the original. Josef Triebensee, who played oboe in the premiere of Mozart’s Magic Flute and chamber music with Beethoven, was the most important arranger of Harmoniemusik, and his selection of numbers from Don Giovanni expertly mixes the dramatic with the lyrical.

Saturday 16 November 2024 - 7pm
Church of St Mary Kenardington

Masterpieces for Harmonie
Boxwood & Brass

Tickets: £27.50 / £25.00 / £17.50