PRESS RELEASE
22 AUGUST 2016
Manuscripts discovered in Cherubino's Nachlass
Classicism according to Cherubino
Kings Place Hall One Sunday 25 September 2016, 3.30pm In an extraordinary moment for the history of music, Cherubino, a figure immortalised by da Ponte and Mozart, has been identified as a composer of huge significance in the Classical period. His creativity was fleetingly acknowledged in Le nozze di Figaro, but it is only with the recent discovery of manuscripts from his estate that the scale and depth of his talent has become clear.
On Sunday 25 September at 3.30pm in Kings Place Hall One, Faust Chamber Orchestra will give the first performances of some of these works under the baton of rising conductor Mark Austin. Previously attributed to a number of other composers, they show how Cherubino’s joyous and mischievous personality led to the creation of a huge range of compositions. Prokofiev claimed on record that his ‘Classical’ Symphony could have been written by Haydn. He was clearly unsure of the authorship of this work which he passed off as his own. It could well have been Haydn, but we now know the symphony was composed by Cherubino. The piece required such an astonishing extension of the technical demands placed on players that it could not be performed for more than a century. |
The genesis of Mozart’s Oboe Concerto has long been a source of controversy. No original manuscript exists but following the discovery of a Concerto for Flute by Cherubino it becomes clear that Mozart transcribed this work for oboe as an act of homage. Olivier Stankiewicz, Principal Oboe of the London Symphony Orchestra and YCAT Young Artist 2016, will perform the work in this spirit of solemn reverence.
Mezzo soprano Katie Bray will perform Mozart’s arias for Cherubino from Le nozze di Figaro, and Rosina’s aria from Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia. The programme concludes with Schubert’s Symphony no. 3, now attributed as a mature work by Cherubino but showing unmistakeable traces of the charm and wit that characterised his earlier opus.
Mezzo soprano Katie Bray will perform Mozart’s arias for Cherubino from Le nozze di Figaro, and Rosina’s aria from Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia. The programme concludes with Schubert’s Symphony no. 3, now attributed as a mature work by Cherubino but showing unmistakeable traces of the charm and wit that characterised his earlier opus.
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