Haydn Project: Vienna 1750

One of the world's truly great period ensembles, Concerto Copenhagen won many friends at the 2024 Festival with their vivid performances of 17th-century music. This year that ever-inventive, always-surprising genius Joseph Haydn is their focus as they return in a special three-concert residency that places Haydn's brilliant symphonic writing in the context of music by his contemporaries. With their dynamic, questing approach to music of the 18th century, Lars Ulrik Mortensen and his players bring a fascinating diversion into Viennese music of the period. Their first programme climaxes in one of the most radical of Haydn's 'Sturm und Drang' symphonies, the miraculous 'Palindrome' (1772).

Programme:
Bonno Overture 'L'isola disabitata'
Martines Symphony in C major
Porpora Sinfonia da camera
Hasse Symphony No. 3 (Overture to Cleofide, 1731)
Haydn Overture 'L'isola disabitata'
Haydn Symphony No. 47 in G major 'Palindrome'

Performers:
Concerto Copenhagen
Lars Ulrik Mortensen director