Albrecht Mayer – December 3, 2011 at 7 PM

PUSHING BOUNDARIES

Stern Auditorium | Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall

HINDEMITH Kammermusik No. 1
BACH Concerto in A Major for Oboe d’amore
MOZART Andante for Oboe and Orchestra
ANDREW NORMAN Project 440 World Premiere
HAYDN Symphony No. 103, “Drumroll”

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Hindemith’s Kammermusik No. 1 captures the brassy, bubbling energy of 1920s Germany—so well, in fact, that it launched the composer’s career at the age of 26. Another German trailblazer, oboist Albrecht Mayer, returns to Orpheus with two works that stretch the oboe repertoire. Lost for centuries, Bach’s Concerto in A Major for Oboe d’amore was reconstructed from the composer’s own keyboard arrangement. Mayer also stakes a claim on Mozart’s delightful Andante, borrowing a favorite flute solo. Project 440 composer Andrew Norman, whose music teems with propulsive energy and astonishing textures, re-imagines the orchestra for the 21st century. Though Haydn did not invent the symphony, his final works in that genre pushed the boundaries for every composer that followed. His penultimate symphony explodes with grandeur and color, featuring the famous “drumroll” among other special effects.

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