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Command Performance: Music for an Empress
Academy of Ancient Music
Part of the Academy of Ancient Music 2023-24 | The Golden Anniversary Season
Add to my Calendar 22-11-2023 19:30 22-11-2023 21:30 36 Command Performance: Music for an Empress Academy of Ancient Music travels to the Vienna of Empress Maria Theresa – where genius paid court, and music flourished in magnificent (and unexpected) new ways. They called her the ‘mother-in-law of Europe’, but as monarch, war-leader, diplomat and patron of the arts, the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria was one or the most extraordinary rulers in European history. Tonight, the Academy of Ancient Music pays homage: recreating an era of splendour, innovation and music without limits. Some of the names need no introduction – and Gluck, Haydn and the young Mozart were just some of the stars who shone around Maria Theresa’s throne. But just as the Empress herself defied convention, so the Academy of Ancient Music will explore some more neglected names too: Maria Theresa Agnesi and Marianna Martinez are composers of striking originality and inspiration who flourished during the reign of a truly exceptional woman. A free pre-concert talk will take place at 6.30pm in the auditorium. West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge DD/MM/YYYYDetails
West Road Concert Hall
11 West Road
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB3 9DP
England
Programme
Maria Teresa Agnesi – Sofonisba: Licenza
Maria Teresa Agnesi – Sofonisba: Rapido turbin vedo
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony no.7 in D major, K.45
Christoph Willibald Gluck – Alceste: Non vi turbate
Marianne Martinez – Keyboard Concerto
Johann Adolph Hasse – Ruggiero: Sinfonia
Marianne Martinez – Scena di Berenice: Berenice, che fai
Joseph Haydn – Symphony no.48 in C major 'Maria Theresia', Hob.I:48
Performers
Laurence Cummings – Conductor
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Programme Note
Academy of Ancient Music travels to the Vienna of Empress Maria Theresa – where genius paid court, and music flourished in magnificent (and unexpected) new ways.
They called her the ‘mother-in-law of Europe’, but as monarch, war-leader, diplomat and patron of the arts, the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria was one or the most extraordinary rulers in European history. Tonight, the Academy of Ancient Music pays homage: recreating an era of splendour, innovation and music without limits.
Some of the names need no introduction – and Gluck, Haydn and the young Mozart were just some of the stars who shone around Maria Theresa’s throne. But just as the Empress herself defied convention, so the Academy of Ancient Music will explore some more neglected names too: Maria Theresa Agnesi and Marianna Martinez are composers of striking originality and inspiration who flourished during the reign of a truly exceptional woman.
A free pre-concert talk will take place at 6.30pm in the auditorium.
