HAYDN'S FRIENDS
FRIDAY 12th JUNE 2026
St Mary's Church, East Castle St., Bridgnorth. 7.30pm
EVENING SYMPHONY CONCERT
THE ENGLISH HAYDN ORCHESTRA on period instruments
Conductor STEVEN DEVINE
Soloists:
Eva Caballero - flute
Emily Worthington - clarinet
Agata Daraskaite - violin
Robert Percival - bassoon
William Gough - bassoon
Haydn: Overture in D Hob 1a:4 (1785)
Franz Krommer: Concertante in D Opus 80 (1810)
Interval 30 minutes
Johann Baptist Vanhal: Concerto for 2 bassoons in F (1785)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F Opus 93 (1812)
KROMMER was one of the most popular composers in 19th-century Vienna alongside Beethoven. His output was prolific, with at least three hundred published compositions including nine symphonies, seventy string quartets and many others for winds and strings, about fifteen string quintets and much sonorous, idiomatic and at times powerful music for wind ensemble. In 1818 Krommer succeeded Leopold Koželuch as Kapellmeister, composer for the Imperial Court of Austria for Francis I, the first Emperor of Austria, the post he held until his death.
VANHAL a Czech composer, born in Nechanice, Bohemia. He was a proficient organist, played the violin and cello, and was a prolific writer. Their are a large number of instrumental and vocal works, one hundred quartets, at least seventy three symphonies, and ninety five sacred works attributed to him. His music was well respected by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and Franz Schubert. Such was his success that within a few years of his symphonies being written, they were being performed around the world, and as far distant as the United States.