Curator's Series: Buchanan, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven
Experience the timeless beauty of Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, and Dorothy Buchanan, blending elegance, innovation, and timeless classical masterpieces.
Dorothy Buchanan’s Peace Fanfare was commissioned as part of Auckland Philharmonia’s celebration of the new millennium – a moment many of us will remember – alongside ten other Aotearoa New Zealand composers.
Cellist Heather Lewis is featured as soloist for Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme, a work that showcases Tchaikovsky’s love of the classicism of Mozart and Haydn. Audiences will be taken through a delightful set of variations on an elegant 18th century-inspired theme, which was originally written for Tchaikovsky’s colleague Wilhelm Fitzenhagen.
We round out this programme with a symphonic icon. With Beethoven’s first symphony we meet a composer showing respect for his teachers, Mozart and Haydn, while also daring to innovate. He features the woodwinds in a way that we don’t blink at today but would have been quite audacious in 1800. This masterpiece is one of the first paving stones on a path that reinvented the symphony for future generations.
Dorothy Buchanan’s Peace Fanfare was commissioned as part of Auckland Philharmonia’s celebration of the new millennium – a moment many of us will remember – alongside ten other Aotearoa New Zealand composers.
Cellist Heather Lewis is featured as soloist for Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme, a work that showcases Tchaikovsky’s love of the classicism of Mozart and Haydn. Audiences will be taken through a delightful set of variations on an elegant 18th century-inspired theme, which was originally written for Tchaikovsky’s colleague Wilhelm Fitzenhagen.
We round out this programme with a symphonic icon. With Beethoven’s first symphony we meet a composer showing respect for his teachers, Mozart and Haydn, while also daring to innovate. He features the woodwinds in a way that we don’t blink at today but would have been quite audacious in 1800. This masterpiece is one of the first paving stones on a path that reinvented the symphony for future generations.
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