CANBERRA | Haydn's Miracle | Haydn, Schubert, Purcell

Name: CANBERRA | Haydn's Miracle | Haydn, Schubert, Purcell
Start: 2025-08-21T09:00:00+10:00
Location: Wesley Music Centre

Schedule

Thu, 21 Aug, 2025 at 09:00 am

UTC+10:00

Location

Wesley Music Centre | Canberra, CT

A program where miracles and fantasies abound, featuring Haydn’s Miracle Symphony and Fantasia Quartet along with Schubert’s Rosamunde Quartet and Purcell’s Fantasia No. 8.
An audience so enraptured by a symphonic finale that they rush as one toward the stage at the very moment a chandelier crashes to the floor behind them. Nobody is injured and Haydn's Symphony bears the nickname “Miracle” forever more. A now contested story alas, but the fact that music has miraculous powers needs no checking, and here is a concert in which musical wonders never cease.
The AHE quartet returns to Haydn’s Op. 76 with No. 6 in E flat major. It’s often called the “Fantasia” after its utterly captivating slow movement, but the true sense of the word - the composer’s “fancy” running freely - applies equally to the whole quartet.
Another miracle: Schubert’s sublime Quartet in A minor was 200 years old last year. When you hear it leaping off the page on gut strings, stripped of vibrato-soaked varnish, it’s like a world premiere. And the transformation of the Rosamunde theme; again, truly fantastical.
The Ensemble then briefly steps backwards in time to savour one of Purcell’s deliciously piquant Fantasias in 4 parts, No. 8 Z 739 (originally for viols) before being joined by flute for a headlong charge into the first of Haydn’s London symphonies: No. 96 in D major, brimming with infectious bon amie.
More information: https://www.australianhaydn.com.au/haydns-miracle
PROGRAM
HAYDN
String Quartet Op. 76 No. 6 in E flat major "Fantasia"
SCHUBERT
String Quartet in A minor D. 804 "Rosamunde"
PURCELL
Fantasia in 4 parts No. 8 in D minor Z 739
HAYDN
Symphony No. 96 in D major "Miracle"
(arr. Salomon)

ARTISTS
The Australian Haydn Ensemble