“Haydn Festival” from Bruhl on the “Evening Concert”

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s a  “Deutsche Welle Festival Concert” from Bruhl. Concerto Koln is featured in three minor-key symphonies by Haydn, the 34th, the 26th, and the 46th.  Also on the program mandolin concertos by Kauchlitz and Hoffmann.  

Thursday June 20: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts 2018-19 (DWF 18-25)

Haydn Festival

A ten-day fest dedicated to Papa Haydn with the splendid Concerto Köln as orchestra-in-residence: this one has three Haydn symphonies and an opera overture – and two works for the mandolin.

Anna Torge, mandolin;

Markus Hoffmann, violin;

Concerto Köln; Markus Hoffmann, conductor

Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 34 in D Minor. Symphony No. 26 in D Minor (Lamentatione)

Overture to the opera "Acide e Galatea," Hob. Ia:5. Symphony No. 49 in F Minor (La Passione)

Johann Andreas Kauchlitz (1742-1808: Czech): Concerto in D Major for mandolin and strings

Giovanni Hoffmann (1770-1814: Austria):

Concerto in D Major for mandolin, strings, two oboes and two horns

Recorded by West German Radio, Cologne (WDR) in Augustusburg Castle, Brühl on August 27, 2018