Stephen Layton conducts Bach, Mozart and Handel
Jubilant brightness
Stephen Layton is one of the world’s greatest choral conductors, an expert in vocal music from the Renaissance to the modern day. In this concert he conducts Baroque and Classical masterpieces by Bach, Handel, Mozart and Haydn, featuring guest soloist Sara Macliver.
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Bach’s cantata Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen is joyful, bursting with radiant salvos from the trumpet from the very first bar.
Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate is every bit as bright, exalted and jubilant as its title suggests – both are ideally suited to acclaimed Australian soprano Sara Macliver and her ‘pure, pitch perfect, silvery’ voice (ABC).
Handel’s celebratory Music for the Royal Fireworks is a perfect partner for these uplifting pieces, full of orchestral pyrotechnics that will make your heart soar. And Haydn’s Symphony No.44 is the perfect counterweight – full of his characteristic sturm und drang (‘storm and stress’) in the opening movement, before light breaks through the clouds in the gorgeous third movement.
Program
HAYDN Symphony No.44, Trauer*
JS BACH Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV51
MOZART Exsultate, jubilate
HANDEL Music for the Royal Fireworks
*Does not feature in the Symphony Hour performance.
Artists
STEPHEN LAYTON conductor
SARA MACLIVER soprano
Presenting Partner (Saturday)
