Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre
Paul Terracini | conductor
Ben Jacks | horn

 
RESPIGHI        Antiche danze ed arie – Suite No. 2
STRAUSS        Concerto for Horn No. 1
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV    Capriccio Espagnol
LISZT/DOPPLER        Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

This program celebrates the inspiration that composers draw from far and wide, and from long ago. Respighi’s suite recasts ancient themes for lute in his distinctively colourful orchestral style. The early music of Strauss, who wrote his first horn concerto before his twentieth birthday, reflects the classical influence of Schumann and Mendelssohn, as well as his family heritage: his father was a horn player. The virtuosity of Ben Jacks, Principal Horn with the Sydney Symphony, is sure to dazzle in this performance. Rimsky-Korsakov’s celebrated capriccio on Spanish folk melodies is a perennial favourite with audiences, while flautist-composer Franz Doppler’s version of a fiendish piano score by Liszt adds the richness of an orchestral sound palette, and is sure to set some toes tapping.