Sinfonia Viva at Derby Cathedral

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Haydn: Symphony No.59 'Fire'

Mozart: Bassoon Concerto in B flat major, K.191/186e (soloist Adam Mackenzie)

Patterson: Phoenix Concerto (soloist Emily Pailthorpe, oboe)

Mozart: Symphony No.29

Principal Conductor Duncan Ward and Sinfonia Viva return to Derby Cathedral, opening the Orchestra's 2016 programme in the city with a bright selection of classics to warm a winter's evening.

Although the date of the ‘Fire’ symphony’s premiere is uncertain, it is believed that the piece was composed earlier in Haydn’s output than the sequential numbering would suggest. In a further twist, despite some rousing, energetic passages, the title ‘Fire’ was not acquired through the piece’s characteristics, but rather it is thought because sections of it were used to accompany the performance of a play entitled Der Feuersbrunst (The Conflagration).

Mozart was in his late teens when he turned his attention towards writing his first composition for a wind instrument, the Bassoon Concerto of 1774, which may have been the result of a commission. It is the only such work to have survived, yet has become a mainstay in the bassoon repertoire and is a firm concert favourite with audiences around the world.

The Phoenix Concerto by award-winning UK composer Paul Patterson was written for and premiered by Emily Pailthorpe in 2009. Themed around the mythical creature, the fascinating interaction between soloist and orchestra reveals intriguing changes of pace, energetic dance rhythms and passages evoking the flight and song of the bird.

The much-travelled Mozart wrote the Symphony No.29 back in Salzburg in 1774, having returned to the place of his birth. One of his best known earlier pieces, No.29 is noted by some as demonstrating the transition towards emotional maturity in the young composer’s compositions as he moved into his late teenage years. Having already immersed himself in the creativity flourishing in Vienna, at the age of 17 this was to be a work which he would subsequently carry with him on his tours as a favourite.

Join Sinfonia Viva for a concert of fabulous classics in the superb surroundings and great acoustic of Derby Cathedral.

Supported by Rolls-Royce plc, Derby City Council, Derby LIVE, Derby Cathedral and Orchestras Live. Sinfonia Viva is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.