Paul Terracini | conductor
Benjamin Mellefont | clarinet
Amy Corkery | soprano
Anna Dowsley | mezzo-soprano
Simon Gilkes | tenor
Alexander Knight | bass
Penrith City Choir
Penrith City Youth Choir
MOZART Così fan tutte: Overture
MOZART Symphony No 35 in D major (Haffner)
WEBER Clarinet Concerto No 1 in F minor
HAYDN Missa in Angustiis (Nelson Mass)
The witty exuberance of Mozart’s overture to a comic tale of fickle young lovers, and the gracefulness of the Haffner Symphony, epitomise the familiar elegance of Classical Vienna. In stark contrast to this is the climate of intense fear in which Haydn, just a few years later, wrote his Missa in Angustiis (‘Mass for troubled times’): under threat from Napoleon’s armies, the mood in Vienna was one of foreboding. Breaking free from the Classical mould is the expressive Romanticism of Weber, in which we showcase the virtuosic talent of one of Australia’s finest young clarinettists.