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Featuring
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Nicholas Carter conductor
Michael Pisani cor anglais
Program
Haydn Symphony No.96 Miracle
Anne Cawrse The Rest is Silence, Concerto for Cor Anglais and Orchestra (World premiere of an MSO Commission)
About the performance
Nicholas Carter conducts a program celebrating new voices and miraculous music. Alongside Haydn’s Miracle Symphony you'll experience a world premiere for English Horn featuring MSO's own Michael Pisani.
- A miraculous symphony
It’s believed the premiere of Haydn’s Symphony No.96 occurred at his very first London concert, in March of 1791 – the name Miracle comes from the story that a chandelier came crashing down in the hall, incredibly without injuring anyone. This incident actually occurred at a different Haydn concert, but the extraordinary circumstances are the same. - The English horn in the spotlight
Adelaide-based composer Anne Cawrse (b. 1981) has been commissioned by many outstanding Australian ensembles, including MSO, ASO, PLEXUS and the Australian String Quartet. Her new work The Rest is Silence is a musical response to the Aldous Huxley quote: “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music”..
Duration: approx. 45 minutes with no interval.
Program and artists subject to change.
*The originally scheduled Symphony in C by Stravinsky has been removed from this program.
