Boxwood & Brass

Praised for ‘spectacular playing’ (Early Music Today) and ‘button-bright performances’ (Gramophone), Boxwood & Brass is a group of exceptional wind players dedicated to the performance on historical instruments of the chamber music and Harmoniemusik of the Classical and early-Romantic periods. Musical and scholarly virtuosity go hand-in-hand in Boxwood’s projects, which regularly involve tracing unknown works and arrangements in far-flung archives and reviving sounds unheard for 200 years.

This programme will explore the phenomenon of early-19th Century Harmoniemusik and the wide-ranging approaches of Viennese ensembles and their arrangers – including original Harmoniemusik for oboes, clarinets, horns, bassoons and contrabassoon by Hummel and Krommer, and the monumental anonymous arrangement of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony from 1816.

Programme:

Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837)

Partita in E-flat

I. Allegro Spiritoso

II. Andante più tosto Allegretto
III. Vivace Assai

Franz Krommer (1759–1831)

Harmonie in B-flat op. 67

I. Allegro vivace

II. Adagio

III. Menuetto: Allegretto

IV. Allegro

interval

Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) arranged Joseph Triebensee (1772–1846)

Symphony no. 92 “Oxford”

2nd movement: Adagio cantabile con espressione

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) arr. anon (Vienna 1816)

Symphony no. 7, op. 92
I. Poco sostenuto­; Vivace
II. Allegretto
III. Presto
IV. Allegro con brio