Haydn and Mozart - A Celebration

IAIN LEDINGHAM (conductor) TAMSIN ROWLINSON (bassoon) Symphony No 40 (La Passione) HAYDN Bassoon Concerto MOZART Symphony No 55 (Schoolmaster) HAYDN Symphony No 29 MOZART

An opportunity to hear some rarely performed works. Haydn’s Symphony “La Passione” is a dark and tragic work, of brooding intensity. Tamsin Rowlinson, our much-esteemed principal bassoonist, will join the orchestra to play Mozart’s delightful Bassoon Concerto, a work of great charm and genial good humour. Tamsin has played with some of the world’s finest orchestras including the London Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic. Haydn's Symphony No.55 , popularly known as DerSchulmeister (The Schoolmaster), was written in 1774 for the Esterhaza court. It is a work rich in surprises and abounding in the wit and inventiveness for which Haydn is so much admired. We end with the finest of Mozart’s early symphonies, No 29 in A major. The virtuosic Finale will bring the concert to an exhilarating conclusion.