ASO: Evolution

Don't miss the opportunity to hear the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra's Principal Bassoonist, Mark Gaydon, in a rare performance of one of the great bassoon concertos, by Johann Nepomuk Hummel. As a boy he was Also in this concert, a delicious musical irony… Brahms' Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn is an earnest and heartfelt obeisance from Brahms to one of his most revered forefathers, taking a beautiful melody and framing it in a sequence of flattering variations. Brahms didn't know, but the musical subject of his variations, Chorale St. Antony, although attributed to Haydn, isn't by Haydn at all! Ferguson: Pudnanthi Padninthi Weber: Euryanthe Overture Hummel: Concerto for Bassoon in F Brahms: Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn Op.56 Artists Mark Gaydon Adelaide Symphony Orchestra Nicholas Braithwaite