Please note: This concert is in the past and has already taken place.

Details

Barbican Hall
Silk Street
Barbican, City of London

London
EC2Y 8DS
England


Programme

Maria Theresia AhlefeldtTelemachus on Calypso’s Isle
Joseph HaydnTrumpet Concerto in E flat major, Hob.VIIe:1
~ Interval ~
Ludwig van BeethovenSymphony no.5 in C minor, Op.67

Performers

David Blackadder – trumpet
Laurence Cummings – Director

Academy of Ancient Music

Programme Note

Struggles, seduction and sparkling wit: Laurence Cummings and AAM play Beethoven, Haydn and Maria Theresia Ahlefeldt.

On a magical island, a young hero makes sweet music with a beautiful sorceress. In old Vienna, a veteran composer encounters a fabulous new instrument – and finds he’s young again. And Ludwig van Beethoven hears the thunder of Fate itself, in a symphony that echoes down the centuries.

Sounds extraordinary? Well, that’s the thing with AAM: we’re all about the adventure; taking you to times and places where the sounds are elegant but the emotions run wild. A sparkling trumpet concerto, the world’s most famous symphony and a woman of genius from 18th-century Denmark: we’ll meet them all. Expect tenderness, rage and unbridled joy.

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

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