Concerto Summer Evenings III - Schubert, Mozart, Bach and Haydn

Schubert: Rondo in A major, D. 438
Mozart: Adagio in E major, K. 261  
Bach: Concerto for Oboe and Violin in D minor, BWV 1060 
Haydn: Symphony No. 46 in B-flat major, Hob. I:46

Music director and violin: Alexander Janiczek

Featuring: Béla Horváth (oboe)

The last concert in the summer recitals series runs from Bach to Schubert. The Salzburg-based violinist and conductor Alexander Janiczek leads (in both his artistic capacities) Concerto Budapest, with whom he performed at the Mozart Day in March. Thus, he is involved in the Rondo in A major, the first piece on the programme: composed in 1816 but never published in the lifetime of Schubert, this work has a technically demanding violin part. Mozart likewise represents himself at the recital with a single movement: the 1776 Adagio in E major was written as a substitute movement for the Violin Concerto in A major of the previous year, the original slow movement of which nit-picking Salzburg concertmaster Antonio Brunetti judged to be ‘overly artificial’. This programme also gets a duo concerto: the Bach piece has survived in harpsichord format, although in its reconstructed version it assigns lead roles to the oboe and violin. This year’s summer evening concerts in Pest County Hall conclude with a Haydn composition, the Symphony in B-flat minor (1772), written when the Kapellmeister was in the service of Prince Nicolaus Esterházy, thus evoking Haydn’s so-called Sturm und Drang period.