Mozart's Clarinet

IMPORTANT UPDATE: 

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Craig Hill will be unable to perform in this concert series. We are deeply saddened that Craig is unable to join the Brandenburg on stage for this highly anticipated concert series, however we hope to see him performing with us once again in the near future.

Stepping in to perform a sublime solo work in place of Craig Hill is none other than the Brandenburg’s own beloved Concertmaster, Shaun Lee-Chen.

In place of the Concerto for Basset Clarinet, Shaun will be performing Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K 216; a brilliant work written by a sprightly 19-year-old Mozart that will showcase Shaun’s effortless virtuosity with the violin.

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With a pioneering spirit Mozart took a rare instrument and enthusiastically embraced it to write the first major concerto for the basset clarinet. The final instrumental work by the great composer, the Concerto for basset clarinet in A major was completed less than two months before his early death at age 35.

The wistful Adagio is familiar to many from its use in numerous well-known film scores such as Out of Africa and The King’s Speech. Rarely, though, is the concerto performed in concert on basset clarinet, the instrument which Mozart chose in his enduring adaptation of an earlier composition for basset horn.

Leading Australian period clarinetist Craig Hill delivers this beguiling concerto in a program which also includes a pair of brooding works by the youngest and eldest of the Bach brothers and the Australian premiere of a symphony by Anton Zimmerman.

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Details correct at the time of publication.

• Program

  Mozart

  Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K 216

  WF Bach

  Sinfonia in D minor, Adagio e Fuga, F 65

• Artists

  Paul Dyer

  Conductor, Fortepiano

   Shaun Lee-Chen

  Violin

  Australian Brandenburg Orchestra