THE HANOVER BAND

THE HANOVER BAND | Sebastian Comberti & Geoff Coates

Programme

HAYDN Symphony No.22 in E-flat ‘The Philosopher’
JOHANN MATTHIAS SPERGER Cello Concerto in C
CIMAROSA Concerto for Oboe and Strings in C minor
MOZART Symphony No.29 in A major K.201

About This Concert

The famous Hanover Band, directed by Leon Bosch, give the first performance in modern times of Johannes Matthias Sperger’s Cello Concerto, with soloist Sebastian Comberti.

Born in 1750, Johannes Matthias Sperger, an Austrian bassist and prolific composer, produced more than forty symphonies and numerous instrumental concertos, including eighteen for double bass. The work is paired with other famous music of the time, Haydn’s unusual Philosopher symphony, with pairs of cor anglais and horns, Cimarosa’s much-loved Oboe Concerto, with oboist Geoff Coates and one of Mozart’s most attractive and beguiling symphonies, No.29 in A.

Artists

Sebastian Comberti cello
Geoff Coates oboe
Leon Bosch conductor

THE HANOVER BAND

When
23 February 2025
6:00 pm

Where
Kings Place, 90 York Way, Kings Cross, London, N1 9AG, UK
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Tickets
£10.00-£36.00 (*Booking fee applies)
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Additional Info
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020 7520 1490

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Video / Reviews

“All the colours…registered vividly on the period instruments, and Bayl steered this familiar music with fresh imagination.”

THE TELEGRAPH (ROSSINI ‘STABAT MATER’)

“The Hanover Band’s gutsy playing stripped decades of varnish from the score with sound that was full-blooded…”

THE TIMES, EDINBURGH FESTIVAL

HANOVER (Not Hannover; Germany) In terms of British history the majority of the music we play is from the Hanoverian period. Hanover also refers to Hanover Square in London, where Haydn performed his symphonies and arias in the Salomon Concerts in the 1790’s.

BAND (ref: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians)
‘An instrumental ensemble, larger than a chamber ensemble. Thus the ’24 violins’ of Louis XIV were called ‘la grande bande’ to distinguish them from Lully’s ‘petits violons’, and Charles II’s similar ensemble was known as ‘the King’s Band’. By extension, ‘band’ came to mean an orchestra in colloquial British usage’.

THE HANOVER BAND a period name for a period orchestra.

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