Programme

BEETHOVEN Coriolan Overture
HAYDN Trumpet Concerto
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9 in C ‘The Great’

About This Concert

The Hanover Band returns to Cadogan Hall with a large-scale programme that culminates in Schubert’s quintessentially Romantic “Great C Major” symphony.

Titan of the historical trumpet David Blackadder joins us for Haydn’s much-loved Trumpet Concerto–the first concerto composed for the newly-invented keyed trumpet, which enabled players to access notes and tonalities that weren’t available on the earlier natural trumpet.

David will be playing a replica of the keyed trumpets which were developed at the end of the 18th century and made Haydn’s virtuosic writing possible, giving us a rare chance to hear what the concerto might have sounded like to its first audiences.

Alongside the Haydn we will be performing Schubert’s mighty Ninth Symphony, “The Great C Major” and Beethoven’s overture to Coriolanus, in a programme that explores both the ebullience and the emotional depths of the high-classical repertoire.

We are delighted to welcome back Leon Bosch as conductor. Leon has become a familiar face with The Hanover Band’s audiences in recent years and this January we embarked together on an ambitious project to record Johannes Sperger’s orchestral works for Chandos.

Artists

THE HANOVER BAND

David Blackadder  Keyed Trumpet
Leon Bosch Conductor