Academy of Ancient Music - Transatlantic: Classical Masters

Wednesday 12 March 2025
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
AAM rediscovers the glorious music of Brazilian composer Mauricio Nunes Garcia – in the company of his heroes Mozart and Haydn.

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Wednesday 12 March 2025 19:30

When Haydn travelled to London, his friend Mozart worried that it might be a journey too far. But the 18th century classical tradition didn’t end at the shores of Europe, and on the far side of the Atlantic, Mauricio Nunes Garcia was creating music of genius – and rising to become one of the brightest stars in Brazilian and Portuguese music.

 

It’s an astonishing story – especially when you consider the prejudice that the mixed-race Nunes Garcia must have faced in colonial society – but today he takes centre stage alongside Mozart’s ever-popular Clarinet Concerto. Inventive, arresting and frequently sublime, Nunes Garcia’s music makes a glorious complement to Mozart and Haydn, and AAM is performing it here for the first time in the modern era.

Performers

Katherine Spencer clarinet

AAM

directed by Laurence Cummings

 

Programme

Nunes Garcia Overture in D major

Nunes Garcia Dilexisti justitiam, Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A majorNunes Garcia Tantum ergoMozart Ave verum corpusHaydn Divertimento in G majorNunes Garcia Litany of the Sorrows of Our Lady

 

There will be a free pre-concert talk in the auditorium at 6.30pm

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