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Boxwood & Brass
Music for Harmonie wind sextet by Beethoven and Mozart
Part of the Music at St Peter's 2019 Season
Add to my Calendar 03-08-2019 20:00 03-08-2019 22:00 36 Boxwood & Brass Boxwood & Brass combine musical virtuosity with active research into the rich resource of music written or arranged for the ‘Harmonie’ wind bands which enjoyed enormous popularity in the Classical and early Romantic periods. The usual ensemble was a sextet (pairs of clarinets, horns and bassoons), and their repertoire included arrangements of opera, instrumental music and chamber music, as well as works written specifically for this combination such as the Beethoven Sextet. His immensely popular Septet for wind and strings was arranged for wind sextet by his pupil, Czerny. Mozart himself was delighted to hear his opera arias played by a Harmonie outside his window. St Peter's Church, Wallingford DD/MM/YYYYDetails
St Peter's Church
Thames Street
Wallingford
Oxfordshire
OX10 0BH
England
Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven – Sextet in E-flat major, Op.71
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Le Nozze di Figaro: Arias (arr. Stumpf)
Ludwig van Beethoven – Septet in E flat major, Op.20 (arr. for sextet by Czerny)
Performers
Boxwood and Brass
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Programme Note
Boxwood & Brass combine musical virtuosity with active research into the rich resource of music written or arranged for the ‘Harmonie’ wind bands which enjoyed enormous popularity in the Classical and early Romantic periods. The usual ensemble was a sextet (pairs of clarinets, horns and bassoons), and their repertoire included arrangements of opera, instrumental music and chamber music, as well as works written specifically for this combination such as the Beethoven Sextet. His immensely popular Septet for wind and strings was arranged for wind sextet by his pupil, Czerny. Mozart himself was delighted to hear his opera arias played by a Harmonie outside his window.
