When Haydn travelled to London, his friend Mozart worried that it might be a journey too far. But the 18th century classical tradition didn’t end at the shores of Europe, and on the far side of the Atlantic, Nunes Garcia was creating music of genius – and rising to become one of the brightest stars in Brazilian and Portuguese music.
It’s an astonishing story – especially when you consider the prejudice that the mixed-race Nunes Garcia must have faced in colonial society – but today he takes centre stage alongside Mozart’s ever-popular Clarinet Concerto. Inventive, arresting and frequently sublime, Nunes Garcia’s music makes a glorious complement to Mozart and Haydn, and AAM is performing it here for one of the first times in the modern era.
Programmes will be available to purchase for £3, or you can download the digital programme.
A free pre-concert talk will take place at 6.30pm in the auditorium.
Overture in D major
Dilexisti justitiam
Clarinet Concerto in A major
Tantum ergo
Ave verum corpus
Divertimento in G major
Litany of the Sorrows of Our Lady
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