AAM - Music From The Dark Side

Thursday 22 October 2015
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
Pavlo Beznosiuk – director & violin

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Joseph Martin Kraus – Symphony in C minor (1783)
Haydn – Symphony No.49 in F minor “La passione” (1768)
Franz Benda – Concerto for violin and strings in D minor (c.1760)
Mozart – Symphony No.25 in G minor (1773)

In the 18th century the symphony often played a functional role in musical society; it served to open concerts, theatrical performances and church services, and provided an aural background for social functions, as well as civic and state occasions.

By mid-century, however, composers began to push out of this standard model, writing pieces of an increasingly dramatic character, in increasingly exotic key areas. A small handful of these works were written in that rarest area of all, the minor mode. Striking in their distinctive stormy character, nervous energy and intense pathos, these works comprise some of the finest music of the age.

AAM leader Pavlo Beznosiuk directs this exploration of the 18th century’s most emotional and expressive repertoire, with beloved works by Haydn and Mozart alongside lesser-known gems by Kraus and Benda.

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